On Friday 04 May 2001 01:23, SoundChaser wrote:
> 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...)
I'd also be happy to help - in fact I'd considered submitting material
before, but I was put off a little by the intimidating tone of the
stylesheet, so wrot my own guide instead.
I think this is a good time to ask ourselves who (plural) LyX is designed
for, and what kind of documentation suits each type of user base. There seem
to be three rather distinct groups of (potential) LyX users:
1. LaTeX users who want a convenient graphic front-end because they're fed
up with typing out all those LaTeX commands. All they really need in terms
of documentation is how LyX does \somelatexcommand.
2. Linux users who stumbled upon LyX in search of a good alternative to
Word(Perfect). No knowledge of LaTeX, but pretty computer-savvy. current
documentation is well suited to this group.
3. Non-computer-savvy users who just want an easy way to write stuff.
This last group is pretty small, I think, but they are where the future lies.
I keep trying to tell my workmates that LyX is actually _easier_ to use than
MS Word, but they don't believe me. Maybe we should have a LyX animated
paperclip
-- just kidding!
Robin
