Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 08:58 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > once again -> pdf files are for printing and reading - not for > reading online. printing the documentation may give you a nice book > to keep under the pillow, but it prevents you from seeing how lyx > formatting is done, using cross refereces etc. and i think that lyx > is an extremely nice "editor" to read docs online! > > if you loose the overview of a single lyx document - then it is badly > structured IMHO. > > if a single lyx document is too heavy for some machines i would say > that is a major problem. will an equivalent latex file be as heavy, > or is this a lyx specific thing?
Even if a single lyx file is not too heavy loading the document will still be proportional to the file size. So what is the typical use-case for the LyX Manual? That someone wants to read it from the first page to the last page? Or that someone wants to read about a specific subject, say including graphics? In my experience the latter is the way more common use-case. I've read the Introduction once and the Tutorial once. And now, every now and then, I open the other two documents because I want to look something up. Therefore it would be preferable if loading the part I'm interested in wouldn't take 10 seconds but only 1 second. The only way to achieve this is to split up the document. Of course, there should be a master document with a complete toc so that I can quickly navigate to the chapter I'm interested in. Ideally, for the user it wouldn't feel different from one large lyx file with the exception that loading would be magnitudes faster. In any case, I'm pretty sure we can discuss this to death. Some people prefer a several megabyte large HTML file and other people prefer the same information nicely split up into several HTML files per chapter or even section (with nice navigation buttons of course). While the first approach is only feasible for people with a fast internet connection the second approach is feasible for anyone. And as always there's the option to do both. Provide the LyX manual as one huge single file and additionally split up into several files. I'd put the multiple-files version into the release and put the URL of the single file version near the start of the multiple-files version. And BTW, Martin, since you want to read the documentation in LyX in order to see how lyx formatting is done, I don't understand why you want to deny the users to see how they can create a document consisting of multiple lyx files. By creating one huge file you'd lose the chance to demonstrate this feature of LyX/LaTeX. Regards, Ingo
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