When I used to read the user's guide, I mostly did it using LyX --- it allows me to search the document etc.
this has nothing to do with ERT
As for the part about novices, I think it's a good policy to keep the start of the user's guide clean and simple. Otherwise they might think that this is the way all documents appear, and that they also need the insets etc.
so you do not tell the truth ... and by the way the old UserGuide has also ERT stuff ...
Herbert
