Re: FAQ

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 8/13/2010 9:47 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Paul A. Rubin wrote:


(I
would vote for the latter, but I'm not entirely comfortable about
deleting someone else's entries.  If I find something I myself posted
that is obsolete, I'll cheerfully recycle the bytes.)


The wiki is a collaborative tool. If we hesitate to correct, edit and probably
also remove other peoples entires, the wiki ends up as an ecclectic piece of
text which helps nobody.

My favorite page is this:

http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MultipleAuthors

This looks like a chat log. I mean, for someone looking for help, this site is
just irritating.


I see your point, but perhaps it helps make people more self reliant. 
If I saw that, I would say never mind, I'll figure it out for myself.  :-)



Something like Tips/MathMacros needs to be updated (since we now have
menu and toolbar control over macros), but I would think the existing
content could be kept after verifying that it still works, even if it is
arguably not the most efficient approach anymore.


Maybe. However, we should try to clean this up where possible. At least as far
as the FAQ is concerned, we should really try to get the thing usable.

I added some notes on how I think the FAQ should look like:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FAQFAQ


Great job with that!

Cheers,
Paul

Re: #6628: Crash on scrolling when continuous spelling enabled

[stefano franchi]

I have not noticed it in the latest release i tried (alpha5), but I did not
conduct extensive tests, especially with long documents. I will do so and
report back

S.


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:36 AM, LyX Ticket Tracker t...@lyx.org wrote:

 #6628: Crash on scrolling when continuous spelling enabled

 --+-
  Reporter:  sfranchi  |   Owner:  lasgouttes
 Type:  defect|  Status:  new
  Priority:  high  |   Milestone:  2.0.0
 Component:  spell | Version:  2.0.0svn
  Severity:  critical  |Keywords:  crash

 --+-
 Changes (by spitz):

  * cc: you...@… (removed)
  * cc: spitz, younes (added)


 Comment:

  Stefano, are you still able to reproduce this with recent revisions? The
  spell checking interface has undergone some work, so this one might have
  been cured en passant.

 --
 Ticket URL: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6628#comment:2
 The LyX Project http://www.lyx.org/
 LyX -- The Document Processor




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Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy   Ph:   (1) 979 862-2211
Texas AM University Fax: (1) 979 845-0458
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: FAQ

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-08-13, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Can we define a criterion for outdated? And should attempt to fix it 
 or delete it?  

...

 (I would vote for the latter, but I'm not entirely comfortable about 
 deleting someone else's entries.  If I find something I myself posted 
 that is obsolete, I'll cheerfully recycle the bytes.)

 The wiki is a collaborative tool. If we hesitate to correct, edit and
 probably also remove other peoples entires, the wiki ends up as an
 ecclectic piece of text which helps nobody.

Remember that the history of the pages is available to all (with some
extra clicks), so if you delete some obsolete info, it is not
completely lost and people insisting on using old versions can still
get the help by checking old versions of the wiki.
(Maybe we could make this clear in an intro page.)

Günter

Re: FAQ

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 8/13/2010 9:47 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Paul A. Rubin wrote:


(I
would vote for the latter, but I'm not entirely comfortable about
deleting someone else's entries.  If I find something I myself posted
that is obsolete, I'll cheerfully recycle the bytes.)


The wiki is a collaborative tool. If we hesitate to correct, edit and probably
also remove other peoples entires, the wiki ends up as an ecclectic piece of
text which helps nobody.

My "favorite" page is this:

http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MultipleAuthors

This looks like a chat log. I mean, for someone looking for help, this site is
just irritating.


I see your point, but perhaps it helps make people more self reliant. 
If I saw that, I would say "never mind, I'll figure it out for myself".  :-)



Something like Tips/MathMacros needs to be updated (since we now have
menu and toolbar control over macros), but I would think the existing
content could be kept after verifying that it still works, even if it is
arguably not the most efficient approach anymore.


Maybe. However, we should try to clean this up where possible. At least as far
as the FAQ is concerned, we should really try to get the thing usable.

I added some notes on how I think the FAQ should look like:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FAQFAQ


Great job with that!

Cheers,
Paul

Re: #6628: Crash on scrolling when continuous spelling enabled

[stefano franchi]

I have not noticed it in the latest release i tried (alpha5), but I did not
conduct extensive tests, especially with long documents. I will do so and
report back

S.


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:36 AM, LyX Ticket Tracker  wrote:

> #6628: Crash on scrolling when continuous spelling enabled
>
> --+-
>  Reporter:  sfranchi  |   Owner:  lasgouttes
> Type:  defect|  Status:  new
>  Priority:  high  |   Milestone:  2.0.0
> Component:  spell | Version:  2.0.0svn
>  Severity:  critical  |Keywords:  crash
>
> --+-
> Changes (by spitz):
>
>  * cc: you...@… (removed)
>  * cc: spitz, younes (added)
>
>
> Comment:
>
>  Stefano, are you still able to reproduce this with recent revisions? The
>  spell checking interface has undergone some work, so this one might have
>  been cured en passant.
>
> --
> Ticket URL: 
> The LyX Project 
> LyX -- The Document Processor
>



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Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy   Ph:   (1) 979 862-2211
Texas A University Fax: (1) 979 845-0458
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: FAQ

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-08-13, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> Can we define a criterion for "outdated"? And should attempt to fix it 
>> or delete it?  

...

>> (I would vote for the latter, but I'm not entirely comfortable about 
>> deleting someone else's entries.  If I find something I myself posted 
>> that is obsolete, I'll cheerfully recycle the bytes.)

> The wiki is a collaborative tool. If we hesitate to correct, edit and
> probably also remove other peoples entires, the wiki ends up as an
> ecclectic piece of text which helps nobody.

Remember that the history of the pages is available to all (with some
extra clicks), so if you delete some obsolete info, it is not
completely lost and people insisting on using old versions can still
get the help by checking old versions of the wiki.
(Maybe we could make this clear in an intro page.)

Günter