On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote:
> 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 interne
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:22:59PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > Am I wrong?
>
> Not at all. FAQ.lyx was originally dead-on-arrival. Mike Ressler
> added a "real" FAQ sometime in 2000. So FAQ.lyx is now way out of
> date.
>
> Either way,
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote:
> Either way, I think it's safe to fold the existing FAQ.lyx into the
> Wiki and ditch the FAQ.lyx file.
PS. John, regarding what documents to maintain in what format I'd really
appreciate your thoughs. (I'm not even clear on exactly what documents we
do h
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:23:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Eh.. I don't get "initial launchpad for new sections of the docs."
> >
> > Could you expand on what you mean.
>
> As a place where
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:22:59PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> I thought it could be useful to replace the FAQ. If we could identify
> a section of the wiki that can be used as a FAQ, we could generate
> FAQ.lyx from there. I though this is something the Wiki is good at
> (and also FAQs
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
>
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:23:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Eh.. I don't get "initial launchpad for new sections of the docs."
>
> Could you expand on what you mean.
As a place where the core of a new section/subsection/subsubsection
w
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, John Weiss wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:47:42AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'd like to ask for some ideas/thoughts on the wiki from a documentation
> > perspective. Or rather, I'd like some general thougths on what kind of
> > documentation we wou
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:47:42AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to ask for some ideas/thoughts on the wiki from a documentation
> perspective. Or rather, I'd like some general thougths on what kind of
> documentation we would like for LyX, considering that we can have the
>
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> chr> Guess I wasn't clear... What do you see as the drawback with the
> chr> user being being directed to local webpages or a PDF?
>
> Well, all our docs are currently in LyX format, I do not l
> "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
chr> Guess I wasn't clear... What do you see as the drawback with the
chr> user being being directed to local webpages or a PDF?
Well, all our docs are currently in LyX format, I do not like much the
idea of having the FAQ in its own special format.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> chr> Just to be clear, does 'read it from within LyX' mean that the
> chr> text should be seen in the LyX text window? I can think of
> chr> several alternatives (the first one is what happens t
> "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
chr> Just to be clear, does 'read it from within LyX' mean that the
chr> text should be seen in the LyX text window? I can think of
chr> several alternatives (the first one is what happens today): *
chr> "Help->FAQ" opens local copy of FAQ.lyx inside
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> chr> I think your question is if we could maintain a FAQ through a set
> chr> of wiki pages and use these to generate FAQ.lyx. The answer to
> chr> that is yes, and it probably wouldn't even be
> "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
chr> I think your question is if we could maintain a FAQ through a set
chr> of wiki pages and use these to generate FAQ.lyx. The answer to
chr> that is yes, and it probably wouldn't even be that difficult to
chr> automate.
Yes, this is what I have
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> chr> Eh... I've lost track of the purpose here though... why do we
> chr> want to generate a lyx-file from wiki pages?
>
> I thought it could be useful to replace the FAQ. If we could identify
> "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
chr> Eh... I've lost track of the purpose here though... why do we
chr> want to generate a lyx-file from wiki pages?
I thought it could be useful to replace the FAQ. If we could identify
a section of the wiki that can be used as a FAQ, we could gene
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> chr> [1] A guy (John Rankin) is working on being able to generate a
> chr> PDF-document from a set of wiki pages. He actually has this
> chr> working, but I haven't installed it yet. That'll wai
> "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
chr> [1] A guy (John Rankin) is working on being able to generate a
chr> PDF-document from a set of wiki pages. He actually has this
chr> working, but I haven't installed it yet. That'll wait until after
chr> I eventually update the wiki to PmWiki 2
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> chr> Hi I'd like to ask for some ideas/thoughts on the wiki from a
> chr> documentation perspective. Or rather, I'd like some general
> chr> thougths on what kind of documentation we would like
> "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
chr> Hi I'd like to ask for some ideas/thoughts on the wiki from a
chr> documentation perspective. Or rather, I'd like some general
chr> thougths on what kind of documentation we would like for LyX,
chr> considering that we can have the documentation
Hi
I'd like to ask for some ideas/thoughts on the wiki from a documentation
perspective. Or rather, I'd like some general thougths on what kind of
documentation we would like for LyX, considering that we can have the
documentation in several places these days.
Here are some loose ideas of type
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