Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Weiss wrote: I concur: 1. External LaTeX packages have no place in LyX. Lars/Asger/Jean-Marc and a cast-of-thousands worked long and hard to ensure we'd never need to do this (hence the whole LaTeX-Config engine & autogenerated manual). Why resurrect a long-rejected bad idea? LyX comes with

Re: [rework docs] reasons, plans, questions

2005-01-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Weiss wrote: Doesn't follow a strucutred concept, eh? Maybe you should read the mailling list archives before insulting me. Sorry I wouldn't harm anybody. I didn't know that there is an active doc maintainer. I asked that on the docs- list a year ago and nobody replied. Are you the current doc

Re: [rework docs] reasons, plans, questions

2005-01-12 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote: > Use a separate doc and include it via a master doc. I was thinking about that. Other than the book will have a lot of redundant information. > Jeremy, Uwe, you guys are MAKING ME VERY NERVOUS with your > near-fixation on making a printable version to the

Re: Printer Tutorial chapter?

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:36:01AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: > > >"The Printer" section in the User's Guide mentions "A Printer Tutorial" > >chapter in the Customization manual. > > > >It is not in the Customization.lyx file (although that does have some > >printing configu

Re: [rework docs] reasons, plans, questions

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:41:56AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > I though if the goal is to have a printed book, then the installation > should be covered also. Use a separate doc and include it via a master doc. Jeremy, Uwe, you guys are MAKING ME VERY NERVOUS with your near-fixation on maki

Re: [rework docs] questions part one

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:16:19PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Spellchecker: > In the current version of the UserGuide I found a lot of > ispell-specific stuff that I would get rid of. Does the problems with > ispell described there still exist? Or does everybody replaced ispell by > the "new

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: > > >>As I use LyXWin, could somebody please send me his file > >>"LaTeX-Configuration"? This menu is broken in LyXWin and I need it to > >>describe it in the docs. Thanks. > > > >I guess you don't mean the file that

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:56:11PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 22:43 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > > I want the example and template LyX files that comes with the beamer > > package to be added to LyX CVS. These files works very well and the > > author of course allows this. Is t

Re: [rework docs] reasons, plans, questions

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 08:35:11PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Reasons: > First I just wanted to update the documentation for LyX QT 1.3.x and > make a bit more platform independent. But while working on the > UserGuide, I realized that it is really out of date. The last complete > rework was d

Re: [rework docs] questions part two

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:12:07PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I wrote: > > >The menu Navigate -> Refs seems to be broken. I expect that this menu > >let me jump from cross- and citation-reference to the next, but nothing > >happens. > > Sorry. The menu works., but it doesn't jump from reference

Re: [rework docs] reasons, plans, questions

2005-01-12 Thread John Weiss
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:34:29PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > >Indeed. Having it in the UserGuide only serves people masochistic enough > >to read it either as .lyx in a text editor before installation or after > >installation to see what might have sped up the installation

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2005-01-12 Thread Apache
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Re: merging documents into User's Guide

2005-01-12 Thread chr
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote: I put a copy of John's post here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Devel/MiscNotes since they explain the idea behind how the documents are partitioned. > Whatever you guys do, please don't expect it to end up back in the > official docs. We actually

Re: [rework docs] include mathed documentation

2005-01-12 Thread chr
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, [UTF-8] Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I covers now nearly all math constructs. I want to replace the mathed > section in the userguide by this documentation. > In my opinion the tutorial has a very good introduction to mathed: It > explains navigating in formulas, the math-panel and t