Hey again, while I wait on some comments on the biblatex stuff, I was wondering about two things. Basically I've tried for many years to get some kind of user friendly LaTeX editor to go so that I can instruct computer illiterates how they can write their own articles/chapters for works that i then only have to stitch together. Hitherto I was looking into various web-editor based approaches, also because installing is something that is too complicated for a lot/most people with little computer knowledge. But I guess there is no way around that for now, and as I understand it it is now only 2 packages that need to be installed on Mac OS X (Lyx and MacTeX) and 1 package on Windows.
But to make it even easier, I wondered about whether it has been thought about including the following into Lyx2.1: 1. a "simple menus" option which basically removes a lot of the entries from the menus that can seem confusing to very basic users. The option would be accessible somewhere through the menus and possible user configurable. Then I could take the three packages (Windows/Mac OS/Ubuntu), exchange the included config file, and distribute those to all those I ever need to collaborate with. Such things as creating PDFs in 3-5 different ways is probably not very helpful to people who don't have a clue what PDFTex or LuaTex is. 2. A build-option to create a PDF with the source Lyx-file(s) embedded into it. The file could have an extension such as ".lyx.pdf" and could be opened by any normal PDF reader as a PDF, or it could be opened in Lyx, which would simply disregard the DPF file and just open the embedded Lyx-file. This would be helpful for people who cannot figure out how to handle multiple files or who get horribly confused by the difference between input- and output-file. This is technically doable -- I once did it for some early stage web based PDF editor. -- Johannes Wilm http://www.johanneswilm.org tel: +1 (520) 399 8880
