On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 04:24 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 08.01.2013 10:30, schrieb John R. Hudson: > > > I have some time to go through the documentation and I wondered if we > > should change the default document class to article KOMA Script and the > > default fonts to Latin Modern. > > Hi John, > > we already discussed what is useful for what manual. For example the Intro > manual should be as > simple as possible in case KOMA script is not installed and special fonts are > not available. > > The UserGuide, EmbeddedObjects and Math manual need special packages because > their aim is to > describe everything LyX provides or what can be done with LyX. Therefore > their preamble is somewhat > complex. > > The Tutorial is a consensus of the Intro and the UserGuide. > > Latin Modern is already used by most of the documentation files. It is loaded > in the preamble to > assure that it can be compiles with the standard font of Latin Modern is not > available. Therefore it > need not to be loaded in the Document settings->Font section. > > If you have some time to revise the documentation files, I would like to ask > you if you can start > with the Additional manual and continue with the customization manual. > (PLEASE USE CHANGETRACKING!) > These manuals are extremely outdated and my time is currently too limited. > The last days I already > improved these files a bit and would estimate that a complete revision would > take weeks. I therefore > suggest to do it chapter by chapter. It is for these files more important to > update the information > (what can be done, can it now be done more elegant are the linked websites > still there...) If you > have any questions please contact the devel mailing list. Usually the > corresponding developer of a > certain feature will reply soon. > > regards Uwe Hi Uwe
Since my last mail to the list, I have completed about two thirds of the UserGuide; my plan was to go on to the Alternatives manual after that and I will then look at Customization. I had been working on the Alternatives manual before I developed cataracts which affected my capacity to work on things. Since then I have kept all the emails to lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org and tried to deal with anything which did not appear to have been addressed so far. I thought it would be useful to work though all the manuals in part to familiarise myself with the manuals as a whole. There should only be one problem about returning the Intro and Tutorial to the article class; at one point I put in a New Page to improve the formatting under KOMA Script. I have left Track changes set in the UserGuide; so you can see whether the changes I am suggesting are helpful. John --
