As the "former" maintainer of most of the docs, I finally had a chance
to have a look. While most of the changes are fine, (and I thank you for
taking the time to bring it up to speed), I think John Weiss, the
original writer, would "have a cow" if he saw the first page on the
screen. There is way too much ERT, making it very hard to read on-screen
- the way most people are going to read it.

Back in the dark ages, when we argued over this stuff incessantly, we
felt that the Tutorial and the User Guide should be as "plain as
possible" so that it would be easy to read on screen, and not too
unpleasant to look at in print. I think that philosophy needs to be
maintained. So while I admire your goal of a linkable, PDF (or print)
document, I don't think Userguide.lyx is the file to mangle to get that.

I wonder if there wouldn't be some way to write a post-processor to take
the LyX file (or the LaTeX output) and insert the necessary commands to
handle all the fancy stuff. That way Userguide.lyx could still be plain
and readable, while it wouldn't be too onerous to make a pretty PDF
file.

Mike

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Mike Ressler
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