On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 07:43:51PM -0400, David Nedrow wrote:
> Well, after lots of fiddling and questions answered by this list, it looks
> as though LyX just doesn't do what I had hoped it would.
A simple question_ What are the features you need?
> I was looking for a simple tool that would allow my team to create
> documents in a WYSIWYG environment and generate output that could be
> tranformed (correctly) into multiple formats (HTML, PS, ASCII
> required; PDF, RTF optional). For internal reasons, there must also be an
> SGML "master" for archiving.
>
> As far as document feature requirements, we need the usual: tables,
> figures, table of contents, etc.
Why table of contents?
IMO the is a visual element, you decide you where it should go, if ever,
in the same way as you decide how the title should appear, how it look...
> I had thought we could use LyX's docbook support for this but it turns out
> that LyX does not provide support for TOC. We had previously struggled
> with LyX' LinuxDoc support, but couldn't get figures and tables to work
> until it was pointed on the mailing list that linuxdoc itself apparently
> doesn't support this.
Please show me one case where the TOC is needed when using sgml related
documents. BTW the same applies to TOF and TOT (figures and tables).
> One of my major disappointments with LyX is that there is apparently no
> sense of "context". Eg. if I choose the docbook template and LyX doesn't
> support a TOC (as it doesn't) then the TOC feature should be disabled. I
> shouldn't be able to insert anything that LyX doesn't do in that context.
>
> Another good example is the linuxdoc template. If linuxdoc doesn't support
> tables and figures, why am I allowed to insert tables and figures?!?!?
Because that is more complicated that it sounds, at least if made in a
maintainable way...
> I guess for now I'm back to WordPerfect Office 2000 (Win32) for SGML work.
>
> I'll keep fiddling with LyX as it progresses, but for now it doesn't
> appear to be particularly usefull as a documentation tool.
What are the missing features?
> -David
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