Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-11-02 Thread Mate Wierdl
then playing Grammar Police. Thx, this was a useful reply, I have learned a lot. Mate

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-11-01 Thread John Weiss
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:33:52AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: > >"ExtendedFeatures" is the abbreviated name, a mnemonic. Maybe if all >of you would READ the manual instead of just the title... > > John, we did read the manual. Our problem is that `extended features' > is not correct

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-25 Thread Mate Wierdl
"ExtendedFeatures" is the abbreviated name, a mnemonic. Maybe if all of you would READ the manual instead of just the title... John, we did read the manual. Our problem is that `extended features' is not correct grammatically. You are not extending existing features of lyx; in the ma

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-24 Thread John Weiss
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:47:36AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bruce> I am reading the Extended Features manual, and it is very good. > Bruce> However, I would like to suggest a different name for this > Bruce> manual. I thin

Re: Name of Extended Features manual: StopIt!

1999-10-24 Thread John Weiss
Stop it StopIt *StopIt* *STOP*IT* **STOP** **IT**!! ENOUGH WITH THE MANUAL NAMES, ALREADY! "Extended" is for extending and customizing LyX?! WHAT THE H*** ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?! WHY WOULD WE HAVE A "Customization" IF THAT WERE TRUE?! Okay... I'm trying to calm down... I'm tryin

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-24 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:19:47AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > >I think of Extended as Extending, or a manual about > >> Bruce> extending the features of LyX. > > > > Agreed. `Extended Features' does not seem grammatically correct: are "ExtendedFeatures" is the abbreviated name,

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-24 Thread John Weiss
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 02:44:37PM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: > "Additional Features" Nixed even before Extended Features. > "Extra Features" Also nixed > "More Features" Don't like it. -- John Weiss

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:51:07 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > >If you can come up with a better name, I think we'd all be happy to hear > >it. "Extended" was just the best we could come up with at the time. > > "Special F." Ye

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
> >I think of Extended as Extending, or a manual about >> Bruce> extending the features of LyX. > > Agreed. `Extended Features' does not seem grammatically correct: are > the features extended? What features of LyX are extended?---the > revtex feature? Was the revtex feature already t

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-15 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:51:07 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you can come up with a better name, I think we'd all be happy to hear >it. "Extended" was just the best we could come up with at the time. "Special F." AH

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-14 Thread Mate Wierdl
I think of Extended as Extending, or a manual about > Bruce> extending the features of LyX. Agreed. `Extended Features' does not seem grammatically correct: are the features extended? What features of LyX are extended?---the revtex feature? Was the revtex feature already there? "Additi

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-14 Thread mressler
> > "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruce> I am reading the Extended Features manual, and it is very good. > Bruce> However, I would like to suggest a different name for this > Bruce> manual. I think of Extended as Extending, or a manual about > Bruce> extending the feat

Re: Name of Extended Features manual

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> I am reading the Extended Features manual, and it is very good. Bruce> However, I would like to suggest a different name for this Bruce> manual. I think of Extended as Extending, or a manual about Bruce> extending the features of L