On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "chr" == chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > chr> Eh... I've lost track of the purpose here though... why do we > chr> want to generate a lyx-file from wiki pages? > > I thought it could be useful to replace the FAQ. If we could identify > a section of the wiki that can be used as a FAQ, we could generate > FAQ.lyx from there. I though this is something the Wiki is good at > (and also FAQs tend to need only simple formatting). > > Am I wrong?
No, I think wiki pages are good for maintaining FAQs (although they really needs an editor or two). What I wonder what the purpose would be for converted the wiki FAQ to FAQ.lyx? Or phrased differently, what do the we (or the users) gain by having the FAQ in FAQ.lyx? (In the case of the userguide, I see a big advantage in that the user can look in UserGuide.lyx to see exactly how something is done, i.e. the document is an example as well as an explanation). The problem is how we want to maintain the FAQ information, or perhaps rather how the information flows from one form to another. I think we need to decide in what form(s) we want to maintain the FAQ, and how/if we should maintain it. Today we have the following situation: * FAQ.lyx has not been maintained in a while * The wiki FAQ is more up to date and has had lots of material added, but it needs to be structured. I think your question is if we could maintain a FAQ through a set of wiki pages and use these to generate FAQ.lyx. The answer to that is yes, and it probably wouldn't even be that difficult to automate. However, it'd be more complicated if we wanted to be able to edit FAQ.lyx and automatically transfer those changes back to the wiki. Even though it'd be relatively easy to generate FAQ.lyx automatically, I do wonder what the purpose would be if we don't expect to edit it... Anyway, I'm starting to repeat myself. Here are some more general questions I can wonder about related to the FAQ: * How would users like to read the FAQ? ** Users want to read/browse the FAQ as web (wiki) pages. This requires an internet connection unless we package a local copy of the web (wiki) pages with the LyX documentation. ** Users want to read their FAQ.lyx that comes installed with LyX * How would users like to search for information in the FAQ? ** Using google or a search function on the wiki ** Using 'ctrl-f' in LyX and the file FAQ.lyx * How would editors/users like to contribute to the FAQ? ** Users/editors contribute to the FAQ by editing wiki pages ** Editors work on FAQ.lyx and send it to lyx-devel for CVS comit /Christian -- Christian Ridderstr�m, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
