On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:36:01AM +0100, Uwe St�hr wrote: > Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: > > >"The Printer" section in the User's Guide mentions "A Printer Tutorial" > >chapter in the Customization manual. > > > >It is not in the Customization.lyx file (although that does have some > >printing configurations). > > > >Can that reference be removed? > > In my opinion yes, because printers are no part of LyX and the printer > settings varies from distribution to distribution. (I also want to clean > the docs from platform specific stuff.) > > The printer tutorial was once chapter 6 of the customization.lyx (e.g. > it is still in the german customization.lyx).
Aaaand someone just nuked it without being careful to check the other docs. There is history behind the Printer Setup Tutorial. See, waaaaaay back in 1996, we didn't have any newfangled CUPS to set up our printers for us. No siree. We had to do it by hand. Even those "auto-installers" tha existed were nothing more than scripts that put the "by-hand" steps, for a limited number of printers, into a black box. The print quality was usually horrible. So, I wrote a, "how to put together GhostScript+lpr+LyX" for thse interested. At the time, it WAS a relevant part of LyX. 7 years later, things change. Replace contents of the "Printer Tutorial" section in Customizationlyx with a really-quick set of instructions on how to fire up the CUPS web-interface. Mention CUPS several times, and end with, "Because of the ease of setting up a printer on Linux these days, this section is deprecated and will be removed in the next release of LyX." Only after careful proofreading and pruning of all external mentions in the other LyX manuals would I then remove this section. Well, that's how I'd do it, at least. Prevents the, "Why is this here?" and "Where's this mythical section in SomeOtherManual.lyx?" syndromes that you run smack into here. -- John Weiss
