On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:52:36AM -0700, David A. Case wrote: > 1. It's not clear where the "contrib" directory is...there is no mention > of such a thing at http://www.lyx.org/download/. (That page only refers > to a "stable" and a "bin" directory.) Of course, if users poke around > enough, they will eventually find ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib, > but why not point them there directly?
Agreed. > 2. It's probably not clear to many users how one goes about "installing" > this package. Since this is not at all obvious, and is also not the > same for every setup, a few examples would go a long way to clarifying > things. Many users may not even know which file in the contrib directory > to download, and (as far as I can tell) none of them have any instructions. Agreed. > 3. There is no mention of latex-ttf-fonts on the "required and optional > support software" page, which otherwise lists the programs required > for LyX (i.e. TeX, ImageMagick, Xforms, etc.) Since these fonts are > pretty much "required" for the Qt version to be very functional, it > would be better to tell users about this up-front. Agreed. > 4. Some explanation of why these fonts are not included in main distribution > would certainly be helpful. I've seen references on mailing list that > they are "not free", but there are no copyright notices or other > restrictions in the latex-ttf-fonts-0.1.tar.gz file, nor is there any > indication of where these came from or who the authors are. Umm, yes there is. I'm still rather disappointed there is no apparent interest in the newer free latex-xft-fonts package I posted to both lists earlier :( john
