>>>>> "chr" == chr  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>  I am not very fond of distributing HTML pages as documentation in
>> LyX. I'd agree to drop the FAQ from LyX now and replace it with a
>> version converted from the wiki when we know how to do that.

chr> Ok (I'm starting to remember now). Would you say the same holds
chr> for all the documenation (except that we should keep them as
chr> .lyx-files for now).

I do not think that the complicated docs (like userguide) can be
represented in wiki markup. Therefore I'd (personally) stick with FAQ
for now.

Of course, this is only my point of view, I am not the one who is
going to work on the docs :)

>> We have to eat our dog food in some way. If LyX is not suitable to
>> read documents on screen we have a problem.

chr> It's been a while since I actually used LyX to be honest, but I
chr> have a vague memory of it not being that fun to read stuff in
chr> LyX. Cant' remember why though.. one issue had to do with
chr> horizontal scrolling and long formulas I think.

This should not be a problem with what we want to do.

>> Did you try to send a request on lyx-devel about writing a
>> pmwiki->lyx converter? I suspect that Jose' would be interested to
>> show off his python skills :)

chr> No, but I should remember to do that. However, I just rememberd
chr> that I'm planning to convert the wiki from PmWiki-1 to PmWiki-2.
chr> This will mean a substantial change (read improvement) on the
chr> wiki markup, so there's not that much point in writing the
chr> converter before that.

Sure.

JMarc

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