Many thanks, and nice work! I would recommend that "LyX Encyclopedia" be pulled out of the User Guide and indexed under LyX-Help as a separate document. The new ground rule being that "old stuff" is removed/replaced so that "LyX Encyclopedia" always reflects the current system.
PS: I would hope that a separate "LyX Encyclopedia" -- and the knowledge that it should always be up-to-date -- might encourage some new contributors to the LyX cause; i.e., some that can contribute at the less-technical (but also important) USER level. On 02/02/2013, at 8:12 PM, John R. Hudson wrote: > On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 11:13 +1100, Gordon Watson wrote: >> As a LyX beginner (seeking to present beautiful maths and physics >> articles), I'm sure that I would really benefit from a LyX >> Encyclopedia, accessed via the LyX toolbar: LyX-Help. In the >> Encyclopedia (for starters) I would expect to find every element in >> the LyX toolbar defined and discussed … as we moved towards a >> centralised and unified LyX language. ... > > That is currently in the User Guide Appendix A. One way to address your > suggestion would be to add a pointer to this in the Introduction or to > mention it in the splashscreen that shows when you open LyX for the > first time. Others involved in the documentation may have other > thoughts. > >> For example, soon after I started with LyX, (somehow) 5 lines of >> LyX-Reconfigure soon appeared!? How nice it would be: to go to the >> Encyclopedia and understand? > > One of the problems that I see, having been using LyX for nearly 13 > years, is that the current manuals are quite substantial and keep > growing as Lyx has developed. The solution adopted some years ago was to > start the LyX Wiki as a sort of Encyclopedia contributed by users but > the entries vary in their usefulness not least because some were written > to address issues which have now been addressed through developments in > LyX. > > As ever there is also the problem of the number of contributors able to > give time to this. > > However, thanks for the suggestions - they keep people on their toes! > > John > -- > >
