>>>>> "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
chr> Um.. I don't think anyone has suggested that for the userguide. chr> Could you give an example of another document that is chr> "complicated"? Hmm, I don't know actually. chr> But in general I agree with you: If the document comtains chr> advanced typography, or lots of figures/formulas, it should chr> definitely *not* be a wiki page. We should only "wikify" stuff chr> that is mostly text and where it is primarly the content that chr> matters - not how it looks. Nor when it might be of interest to chr> use it as an example of a .lyx-document. Also, there is the problem that trying to get people to use an editor and using something else for our own docs is fishy, I think... chr> It would be nicer to be able to use LyX for editing these chr> documents.. if I can dream for a little while, we'd have a system chr> with two versions of each document: "official" and "draft" where chr> - The official version comes installed with LyX, it's read-only - chr> The draft version resides online and is under version control, chr> where more or less everyone can make changes and comit them. Another approach could be to decide to work on a part of a document by transferring it to the wiki, letting everybody pond on it for one or two weeks, and then put it back in lyx form. >> >> We have to eat our dog food in some way. If LyX is not suitable >> >> to read documents on screen we have a problem. >> chr> It's been a while since I actually used LyX to be honest, but I chr> have a vague memory of it not being that fun to read stuff in chr> LyX. Cant' remember why though.. one issue had to do with chr> horizontal scrolling and long formulas I think. >> This should not be a problem with what we want to do. chr> Eh... I thought you asked why LyX is unsuitable for reading chr> documents with? Anyway, I just wanted to say that I think there chr> are reasons why LyX is less good for browsing documentation. chr> (OTOH, I think it's awesome as an authoring tool). I meant that we do not have such large equations in the manuals. I agree that the problem is annoying. JMarc
