On Tuesday 30 May 2006 11:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Monday 29 May 2006 02:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> You ask a very good question, and to be honest I have no idea whatsoever > >> why people aren't sharing their layouts, but here's two gueses: > >> > >> * People feel that their layout isn't "good" enough... > > > > Yes, I don't think my layouts are good enough, at least from a coding > > viewpoint. They *do* accomplish the page layout I needed, but they're not > > pretty, and probably not done the best way. > > Ach.. ich verstehe. Mabye we dein Angst helfen kann. If you on that Couch > will lie down, we shall Your mutter, Uberjag und other issues diskutieren.
Ich konne ein bischen LaTex, aber keine Deutsch. Ich supposedlieren :-) Deutsch gelernt auf Hochschule, aber neiiiiiiinnn! > > Ok, that parody didn't come out as well as I'd hoped... Nor did mine :-) > anyway, I > recognize the "my coding isn't good enough"-feeling. In addition, I'm > often somewhat of a perfectionist. What I can say is that in my > experience, people don't complain about coding quality[1]. > At best they are very grateful and thankful to just get anything. > At worst, they ask for more features... > > Btw, I'd like to take the this opportunity and thank your for some of the > stuff you wrote a long time ago about how to do your own layouts - those > texts really did help me! In fact, I probably relied on your tips quite a > bit when I did the Songbook layout. Very welcome. I'm glad it worked out for you. > > >> * People feel that it's too difficult to upload the layout... > > > > Yes, I feel the layouts are too hard to upload. I hardly know how to use > > wikis at all. > > I'd be happy to help with this of course. More importantly probably, I'm > very grateful for any tips on *what* it is that makes it diffiult. If it > so difficult that people as you don't to it, the entire LyX community is > missing out... I'll gratefully accept your help. I have 2 problems with wikis 1) I don't know (and forget when I do know) all the shortcuts for various lines, heading levels and the like. 2) The whole thing looks very intimidating to me. It's like I'm overwhelmed, and don't know where to start with a wiki. One other question -- when submitting all these layouts, how do we license them so they're free software that can be used, modified, copied and redistruted by everyone? > > So please consider this a question to everyone on this list. Can you give > me examples on what you find difficult when it comes to the wiki? For me it's not *the* wiki, it's *any* wiki. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
