Hi John,
I first have to apologize the enormous delay of my response. I was in vacation and are currently
heavily busy finishing my Ph.D. thesis.
> As last time, I wasn't able to open Tutorial.lyx from
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment either directly or by
downloading it to my
> computer and trying to open it there.
What is the error message you get. It works for me.
Here are my suggestions for chapters 4 and 5.
Many thanks! I applied your changes except the following issues:
4.1 Math Mode
[third paragraph] Update your viewer and look at the output. [a more appropriate suggestion for a LyX user]
I merged this sentence with the next one to:
Looking at the output you will notice that...
4.2 Navigating an Equation
[second paragraph] . . . One thing to be careful of: if you . . . [lowercase
is normal after a colon]
Interesting because I learned at school that the colon is equal to a dot. Both end a sentence and
thus the next character must be uppercase. (This is at least the case for German and French.) I
changed this nevertheless and are interested in a link to this rule for English.
4.4 The Math Toolbar
[At the end of the first paragraph, would it be worth giving a citation or
cross-reference to where people can find this information?]
Done. The infos are available in LyX's Math manual.
4.4.4 TEX mode: Limits, log, sin and others
[I don't see the point of TEX mode here; also, in English maths, 'limits' is
normally taken to refer to the superscripts and subscripts of integrals and the
subscripts of sum. I suggest the heading should simply be 'Log, sin and others']
The name "limits" referred the limits function "lim". I changesd the dectiion
heading now to:
4.4.4 Functions: lim, log, sin and others
4.4.6 Display mode
[second paragraph] . . . in the Math Toolbar, which creates a couple of blank
lines before and after a centered blue box. Now type an expression in the blue
box and run or update your viewer to see how it looks. . . . [the extra
sentence adds nothing]
I rewrote it now to:
While being in a formula, click on the display button in the Math Toolbar. This centers the
formula and adds a blank line before and after it. Now type in an expression and compile your file
to see how it looks.
5.2.1 TEX Mode
[third paragraph] As a special case, if you type a brace in TeX mode, then the
beginning and ending braces will be inserted in red; the cursor will then be
taken out of TeX mode and placed between the braces. This makes it more
convenient to type those commands which take an argument that LyX doesn't know
about.
The original sentence was misleading. I have now this:
As a special case, if you type “\{” in a formula, the beginning and ending braces will be
inserted in red while the cursor is placed between the braces. This makes it more convenient to type
those commands which take an argument.
[In the final paragraph the character between 'you want' and 'although' does
not display in the PDF and appears to be longer than an em-dash in the LyX
help. An em-dash would be appropriate here but maybe it needs to entered with
--- to make it display properly in the PDF.]
This character is an em-dash and appears correctly in the PDF output (via pdflatex). My PDF viewers
are GSview, Foxit, and Acrobat.
5.2.4.1 Document Class
. . . in the Class options. [I cannot see any 'Extra options']
I rewrote the complete subsection. Extra options is now named "Custom options".
best regards
Uwe
