Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 20:35 schrieb Uwe St�hr: > Hello LyXers, > > last month I started to rework the documentation files.
I am sure that this will be appreciated by many users. > First I just wanted to update the documentation for LyX QT 1.3.x and > make a bit more platform independent. But while working on the > UserGuide, I realized that it is really out of date. The last complete > rework was done in 2000 for the LyX 1.0.x series. In the meantime many > updates and new sections were added. But the documentation still misses > many informations and doesn't follow a structured concept. E.g. not all > menus are described and there is no explanation for the icon buttons > under the menu bar. I see one problem: What happens to the 1.4 documentation? At some point one would need to merge your changes back. Did you consider to leave 1.3 as is and modify 1.4 instead? This would avoid some additional work. IMHO we should not put too much effort in 1.3 anymore but concentrate on getting 1.4 ready. > The UserGuide will also have a short section about needed programs > and install issues for the platforms Linux/Unix, Mac and Win. I don't think that install issues belong into the user guide. IMHO they would be better put in an installation manual (that all users of prepackaged versions like the application bundle on Mac or .rpm, .deb etc can ignore). Or maybe put the install issues into an appendix. Georg
