David Neeley wrote:
I delayed turning to LyX for several years, since for a time it
appeared to the casual observer to be somewhat of a dying application.
An aborted "Klyx" (kde specific) version, for example, did not appear
to be a sign of progress.
http://www.lyx.org/about/klyx.php
While I am personally fascinated with typography, we are a
comparatively dying breed these days, it seems.
Yes, it seems that way.
LyX seems to be extremely useful for creating indexes, which seems to
me to be an often-neglected part of the written information trade.
Indexing, though, could become extremely significant in content
management--especially since indexing itself is in a major sense the
extraction and processing of metadata. Thus, the information chunks
represented by topic creation for content management may be best
served by creating index references at the time the topics are written
and placed in the repository originally. That would seem to permit the
locating and employment of the right chunks to meet any arbitrary
need. Then, creation of new documents as collections of these chunks
would be greatly eased.
They say you can't judge a book by its cover but by its index.
It reminds me of Explore XY which takes for ages to finish.
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http://explorexy.com/
CORRELATION – the process of establishing a relationship or connection
between two or more subjects.
EXPLORATION – the process of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area
in order to learn about it.
Correlation and exploration. Doing both, in depth, on the Internet was
impossible. Not with search engines. Not with data mining. Not with
crawlers or bots. Not with anything.
Until now. Introducing Explore XY.
Explore XY is a Knowledge Discovery Vehicle (KDVTM). A KDV is a radical,
patented desktop application that explores all the web’s pages to find
any correlation between two subjects. It reads a URL/web page and
reports back text and source links that are relevant to connecting the
two subjects.
Download it for free now!
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Anyway, pardon my musings tonight...there is much that I am still at
sea about in this whole subject.
David
I enjoyed reading your thoughts and also "Techwriter's toolkits and
directions for tomorrow" (long and deep response)" twirlers Bill Hall
Any port in a storm :-)
Stephen
