Re: What's wrong here? [w/ PATCH] (+ Reference manual comment)
Mike weighs in :-) On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Am Freitag, 21. September 2001 09:14 schrieb Allan Rae: Document it. In NEWS and in whichever user manual Mike thinks fits best (User Guide? but certainly in the Reference manual). Good idea. I will do (after it is decided that this approach will go in and how). Maybe Mike can tell me where I have to document it... It should go in the User Guide where File-Open... stuff is discussed. If you like, write up a short description of exactly how it works and what the issues are, and send it to me. I can polish it and insert it appropriately. Note that the Reference manual is officially obsolete, at least in the sense that it is no longer maintained by the documentation team and it no longer appears in the Help menu in LyX. Information useful to a typical user was copied over to other docs; the rest of it was deemed too out of date for redemption. Since it is a document primarily for the developers, the doc team voted unanimously (1-0, with several other concurrences) :-) to leave it to the developers to update it and use it as they see fit. Ideally, it will morph into the document that enthusiastic newbies on the dev team would read to get up to speed. By its nature, though, it has to be maintained by the people who actually write the code, not merely hardcore users like me (who have no clue what #pragma means). I suggest, in fact, that it be moved from lyxdoc to perhaps lyx-devel/development or to the Code_rules subdirectory under that. Either way, it will be up to you guys to make something of it, or bury it once and for all. Mike P.S. Note that I committed final copies of the Intro and Tutorial a few days ago. Translators should start thinking about gearing up ... Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm lame: I don't have my own website ...
Re: What's wrong here? [w/ PATCH] (+ Reference manual comment)
Mike weighs in :-) On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Am Freitag, 21. September 2001 09:14 schrieb Allan Rae: > > Document it. In NEWS and in whichever user manual Mike thinks fits > > best (User Guide? but certainly in the Reference manual). > > Good idea. I will do (after it is decided that this approach will go in > and how). Maybe Mike can tell me where I have to document it... It should go in the User Guide where File->Open... stuff is discussed. If you like, write up a short description of exactly how it works and what the issues are, and send it to me. I can polish it and insert it appropriately. Note that the Reference manual is officially obsolete, at least in the sense that it is no longer maintained by the documentation team and it no longer appears in the Help menu in LyX. Information useful to a typical user was copied over to other docs; the rest of it was deemed too out of date for redemption. Since it is a document primarily for the developers, the doc team voted unanimously (1-0, with several other concurrences) :-) to leave it to the developers to update it and use it as they see fit. Ideally, it will morph into the document that enthusiastic newbies on the dev team would read to get up to speed. By its nature, though, it has to be maintained by the people who actually write the code, not merely hardcore users like me (who have no clue what "#pragma" means). I suggest, in fact, that it be moved from lyxdoc to perhaps lyx-devel/development or to the Code_rules subdirectory under that. Either way, it will be up to you guys to make something of it, or bury it once and for all. Mike P.S. Note that I committed "final" copies of the Intro and Tutorial a few days ago. Translators should start thinking about gearing up ... Mike -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm lame: I don't have my own website ...
