Hi James, Please keep the discussion on the ML so that others can contribute, too.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:42 PM, James S. Cavenaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Liviu, > > Thanks for your reply. I may do that eventually, but as I wrote, I'm just > now reading the UserGuide and so I am very, very far from being a skillful > Lyx user. I did just come across what I think is another mistake, however, > and I'd like to point this out too. I have no idea how to fix this at this > time; I can only point it out. > When you point out UserGuide under Section 3.4.3, "Vertical Space (0.3cm)", this is part of the LyX machinery. To change strings at this level one should open a ticket on our tracker: http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome > In Section 5.1.6 (User Guide, Operators with Limits), I believe from the > text and similar math notation elsewhere that the limits to the summation > shown in the displayed formula example are supposed to be above and below > the capital sigma, but they're not—they're to the right just as they are in > the inline version. In playing around with this tool the only way I can see > to get the desired look is with stackrelthree, i.e. make three empty boxes > and fill them in separately, with the middle box being a capital sigma. Is > there an easier way to do this? > I wouldn't know. This is perhaps a question suitable for lyx-users. Regards, Liviu > Thanks, > James > > > On 8/27/2015 1:15 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> Dear James, >> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:50 PM, James S. Cavenaugh >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Since Lyx is concerned with automatically applying correct styles, I want >>> to >>> point out an instance of very bad style in the UserGuide. I'm still >>> reading >>> this and so there may likely be many more such examples, but this will >>> suffice to illustrate a very, very common error in spacing that pervades >>> English prose. It's as common as it is wrong. The SI rules very clearly >>> specify that there should be a space between a number and a unit, but >>> often >>> this space is omitted, and that's just plain wrong. >>> >> You are clearly interested in fixing these issues. Please consider >> taking the user guide, enable Change Tracking, correct the issues that >> you can spot, and forward the corrected document to this list. Then >> our docs maintainer will consider including the changes in our repo. >> >> Best regards, >> Liviu >> >> >>> Look up the SI rules if >>> you don't believe me. By the way, they're international, so this isn't >>> some >>> Americanism or whatever. Unfortunately, scientists and other educated >>> people are as ignorant of these rules as anybody else, but the rules are >>> actually quite sensible. >>> >>> Anyway, in the UserGuide under Section 3.4.3, you have an example with a >>> table, and the example shows a diagram with Vertical Space (0.3cm) — note >>> that the quantity in parentheses definitely should be "0.3 cm" and not >>> "0.3cm". >>> >>> Regards, >>> James S. Cavenaugh, Ph.D. >> >> >> > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
