Ray Henry wrote: >Hi Jeff > >I'm not enthusiastic about the html stuff that you've substituted for >the readily available packages. This system requires several edits for >any big change to the lyx stuff. > > I don't know how much work has to be done to make minor edits. Major edits, like the restructuring that John T and you have been doing certainly takes a bit more attention to detail. As far as I know, the HTML and PDF docs are built pseudo-automatically though. Is this not the case?
>As I've worked with LyX I find it to be a rather good system. I >currently publish a couple of books using it and have been able to >upgrade those to the latest lyx version available with Ubuntu 8.04. > > I'm sure any of the systems mentioned has excellent forward compatibility. It's backward compatibility that seems to be an issue. You can pull the docs into Lyx on 8.04 and it's all happy. You just get stupid non-CVS-friendly whitespace changes if you save in the old format that Lyx on 6.06 understands. Since the old format is the only one that both systems can use, and the new software screws up the formatting (source formatting that is, I'm sure the resulting docs look fine), it makes it undesirable for a revision-managed system such as ours. >Excuse me for not answering in each section below. I simply am not in >tune with your thinking about trashing it and starting over. As for a >lot of users, so does LyX. > > I think I'm missing some words here :) Can you elaborate? Thanks - Steve [snip] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
