On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Helge Hafting schrieb:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote:
If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document
consisting of User's guide + extended features in one
document. Just paste one into the other,
perhaps as part I and part II. Perhaps with Customization
as part III if you need that one too.
Ok, so I would suggest a perfect trinity: Introduction, Tutorial,
Manual. The manual would consist of what is now the user guide, extended
features, and customization. I guess using latex book "parts" would be
right for that. As a normal lyx user, you would only need the manual,
the first two docs are for beginners.
I'd just like to point out that it's previously been thought important
that the documentation documents are normal LyX documents that don' rely
on any special classes. In other words, it should be possible to compile
them with a standard installation of LyX and LaTeX. FWIW, I agree with
this.
In addition, the manuals should avoid ERT and lots of stuff in the
preamble if I can remember correctly. Right now I can't remember the
reason though, possibly to not scare the new reader into thinking that LyX
documents must have this.
I take that as approval. When I have the time (not this month), I will
try to cook something up. ( Or maybe someone else has more time in the
short term ;-)
Note that I'm not talking about the wiki. It's nice and everything, but
I think the first point of reference should always be the included
documentation.
Definitely. Btw, when I first used LyX in 1997 I was really impressed with
the documentation. Unfortunately it hasn't really been kept up to date as
it should have since then.
cheers
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
