On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:50:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > * How would users like to read the FAQ? > ** Users want to read/browse the FAQ as web (wiki) pages. > This requires an internet connection unless we package a local copy of > the web (wiki) pages with the LyX documentation. > ** Users want to read their FAQ.lyx that comes installed with LyX
Honestly, I don't think we really need to have the FAQ be a LyX document anymore. HTML pages, possibly generated from the Wiki, should be sufficient. (It's not like web browsers are all that rare anymore.) Keeping the manuals (or certain manuals, at least) as LyX documents does serve a useful purpose, as Christian points out: an example of how-to-do-that in LyX. With that in mind, I could easily see "Customization.lyx" and "Reference.lyx" turned into webpages maintained on the Wiki by the community. The UG, Tutorial, and Intro would all remain tightly-controlled by some Editor-type-peoples. However, the Wiki could have places where the community could contribute corrections and addendums (not new sections, mind you, but new sentences). That just leaves "Extended.lyx", which could probably use new name. Or not. It should, however, have a new organizational structure and contents in the form of journal-entry-like units, thus making it easy for people to contribute new sections. The level of control would be less-tight than UG/Tutorial/et.al., but not totally willy-nilly. Hmmm... maybe my original concept for the Reference Manual is better served by the Wiki. Hmmm... have a fixed template for entries, a well-documented notation (using Wiki markup, of course), and community contribution. Might work. Might work... -- John Weiss
