Mike,
You have a volunteer right here. :) As I have been reading the
documentation lately, I've come across a number of things that I wuold
like to see revisited / revised. (Mostly things in tone of the
documentation...)
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:31:11PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > > Conventional word processors can do just about anything you can
> do in LyX,
> > > and even qute a few things you can't do in LyX. The important
> point is that
> > > what LyX does, it does easily and well.
> > OK, so than something like this should be in the Introduction and
> not
> > talking about renumbering headlines (do not tell me, that it is
> more
> [ ... ]
>
> When John Weiss first wrote the User Guide many years ago, all these
> arguments (renumbering sections, etc.) were far stronger than they
> are
> today. Word and people's ability to use Style Sheets have improved
> dramatically over the past few years (warning: biased observation of
> a
> small sample of people). The Web with the HTML markup tags helped
> raise
> people's awareness, I think.
>
> Much of the preface material in the LyX documentation should be
> updated
> and made a little less strident; all of the documentation should be
> updated for that matter. I've been laying low on doing this since I
> perceive big changes taking place in LyX that will require redoing
> everything again for 1.2.0, and frankly, I find 1.1.6 and its fixes
> unusable because of the tabular problems.
>
> \begin{WARNING to everyone, especially the developers:}
> So unless people beg and whine, I plan no doc updates until 1.2.0preX
> is
> released - though I am keeping track of the current inaccuracies.
> \end{WARNING}
>
> Oh yeah - if anyone wants to volunteer to help document when 1.2.0
> starts
> coming out, that would speed things up, too ...
>
> --
> Mike Ressler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> OK, I'm lame: I don't have my own website ...
>
>
>
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// George
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evolved flotsam we call mankind, you just want to go out and find
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