Am 22.05.2011 19:06, schrieb BEN TRAHAN:
Section 2.1 paragraph three says that this document assumes some sort of dvi
viewer is available.
> I suspect that the idea of a device independent file format has not been
sufficiently developed
> at this point to just drop it in as an assumption.
> I see that this is covered in section 1.3 of the Introduction, but acronyms
are quickly forgotten.
You are right that DVI might still be unknown for the reader at this point. However this info is
anyways superfluous because all LaTeX distributions come with their own DVI viewer. I therefore
removed this now.
Also, the explanation in the introduction makes dvi appear to be an unimportant
file extension
particular to Tex, now I am discovering that like most things in the Open
Systems realm this
> is far from the case. This sudden expansion from particular to global comes
as something of
> a shock. When I click on the "View" menu item in Lyx I am faced with a
bewildering number of
> options especially in the two sections who's labels include the term "other."
I suspect all
> these options have something to do with a proliferation in the use of the dvi
extension or
> filetype (pardon the use of Windows terms).
I cannot follow you, what is your point?
The view menu contains the output method we support. The default is pdflatex, to know more about the
other formats, have a look at sec. 3.8.2 "Output file formats" of the UserGuide.
At the very least I would at least expect the (good)
summary of terms (Tex, Latex...) on page 9 (section 1.3) of the Introduction to
include a mention
> of dvi. If I understand the situation correctly the definition for Tex should
read something
> like, "Typesetting language with macro capability with typical output being a .dvi
file."
Why? DVI can for example not include images nor embed fonts. It cannot display scaled and rotated
text. Sending a DVI to a printer does also not work. The docs describe LyX regarding to a PDF
output. Note also that this is a tutorial where the new users should learn how to use LyX and not
how the file formats are internally working. For this we have the UserGuide and the other more
specific manuals.
regards Uwe
