On 01/13/2010 02:28 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2010-01-13, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Am 13.01.2010 01:54, schrieb rgheck:
This can be done, however users with LaTeX classes we don't have a
layout file are usually LaTeX experts.
Not always. It could also be students given a university documentclass,
first-time authors or "converts" trying to run a publisher's LaTeX
template.
Indeed. I suspect, in fact, that LaTeX experts will easily understand
the difference between layout files and LaTeX classes, and why one would
need both.
By reading the relevant sections of the tex2lyx manpage and the
references Customization manual it should in my opinion become clear
how to handle layout files.
However, pointing out the distinction between a LateX documentclass/-style and
a LyX layout file and pointing to the relevant parts of the documentation will
help them and, by reduced faqs, us.
Some of that material is still there, so we are still helped. But I
still think, myself, that a more extensive discussion of the difference
is important, and that it should be somewhere *most* users would
encounter it, not just the ones who already know what they need to do.
I also think that there ought to be a few paragraphs in the User's Guide
about the possibilities for customizing LyX and why you might want to do
that. Too few users know what is possible, it seems to me.
And, Uwe, one more thing. Part of the reason I'm not doing these things
in trunk right away is because we might want to discuss them, as we are,
and because you might want to make changes to what I've done, which you
have. It seems reasonable to wait until we have agreed upon what we're
doing before doing it in two places. OK? If something becomes settled,
then you can tell me and I'll do it in the User's Guide, too, or you can
do it.
Richard
