>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: please consolidate the documentation >>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:24:33 +0200 >>X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >>> Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file. >> >>Good point. To summarize: >> >>* We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some >> kind of table of contents for the whole thing. >> >>* We'd like to be able to search all the help files in one go.
See below, HTML or PDF versions. >> >>* We'd like to be able to have cross-links between help files. This one already exists, try Alt-H a >> >>And one suggestion for fixing these problems is merging the help >>documents. Is this about it? As far as PDF or index/search is considered, this is not needed. >> >>> I have this obsession with getting the big picture. Keyword search isn't >>> everything, as many long google hours have tought all of us, right? And >>> I mean on-screen, I can't carry around a printout. >> >>Does it have to be in a .lyx-file? >> >>Would a single PDF be ok with you? >> >>Or would it be useful if it was in HTML? Some years ago, to encourage LyX use, I built a set of HTML files using latex2html and maximum depth in split, and gave intranet index access to it. This has some drawbacks wrt LyX access as some illustrations can only be seen with LyX. Advantage is piecewise access to information, prone to internet access even with a slow connection. I sill must have the script somewhere... >> >>> As you know, Lyx is pretty bad at handling multiple open documents, >>> which contributes to my desire to have only one relevant file. >> >>To be honest, it was three years since I wrote anything big using LyX. But >>then I didn't find it that difficult using multi-part documents. Maybe my >>expectations were low. I use multipart often, works great (but I don't need crossrefs between parts). Just my 5c... -- Jean-Pierre
