On 07/10/2015 10:57 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:16 PM, José Matos <[email protected]> wrote:
On Friday 10 July 2015 11:28:53 Liviu Andronic wrote:
Absolutely, yet our naming is so terse so as to prove confusing. Maybe
we need a tooltip there, or a status message appearing when hovering
the item, or something else. Otherwise people simply won't really know
what that item is supposed to do, or worse assume that LyX is unable
to do this at all (when it does!). I know RTFM would be one way to
approach this, but maybe there is something we can do to ease
confusion... Say, and yet another shot in the dark: "Include Child
Document (.tex, .lyx, etc.)"
FWIW I agree with you. :-)
"Child Document" and "External Material" differ only on the implementation.
Note also that even in terms of documentation in section 7 (External Document Parts) of
the "LyX's detailed Figure, Table, Floats, Notes, Boxes and External Material
manual" it says:
"With the menu Insert->File you can insert external material into your
document. This can be:
LyX Document - Another LyX document; its content is directly inserted to
your document.
Plain Text - A text document; each line is inserted in your document as a
separate paragraph.
Plain Text, Join Lines - A text document; text lines are inserted in your
document continuously but an empty text line creates a new paragraph.
External Material - Files in various formats.
Child Document - LyX or LaTeX-documents."
This is funny because basically it says that External Material is a particular
case of external material. :-)
What's more, I find it confusing that you can insert "LyX Document",
and then insert "Child LyX Document". Maybe we oughta make it very
clear in the menu when we *insert* stuff and when we *include*
(external) stuff.
Yes, that is a good idea. But I'm very unsure how to do that.
It would take work, but I wonder if merging the Child Document and
External Material
dialogs wouldn't be a good idea.
Richard
