Dear Uwe Hope the thesis turned out as you wanted.
I have looked again at what happens with the Documentation wiki. If I click on Tutorial.lyx, it does not load the file but takes me to the page in the wiki where the source is. I finally discovered that if I select the option to download Plain text from this page, this downloads the file and, by changing the ending to .lyx, LyX will read this. If I use the download option in my browser to download Tutorial.lyx, I don't get the LyX source but the HTML source; that was why I was getting 'Not a LyX document' whenever I tried to get either of my browsers to open the file. In English the colon used to be equal to a dot (as in the book from 1825 that I have been reading) but even when I was at school fifty years ago, the semi-colon had taken over that function, though it is not followed by a capital letter. I have checked Butcher Copyediting and she highlights using the colon in this way as an error to be corrected. She only recognises using the colon to introduce or to separate certain elements in a list. It looks as if the way em-dashes are generated varies slightly. The ones in the Tutorial PDF look longer than the ones in the PDFs that I generate even though I have used --- in the LyX source. John ---- "Uwe Stöhr" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
