On  2.03.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote:

> > Sorry, I was misleading. I mean the internal help (Menu Help). 
> > Not very helpfull captions (would you look for customization under "Profi
> > Tips"?) and no search-facility/index.
 
> Hmm.. no, I wouldn't look there... guess it's better in the English 
> version (I've got an entry for 'Customization' in LyX 1.3.3).

My foult, the Customization entry is in German too (Hilfe>Anpassung) in 
1.3.3, so I was just writing this from memory of old LyXes.

However, still such basic stuff as export to LaTeX, PS or HTML is hidden
under Hilfe>Profi Tipps which IMHO is a somewhat misleading translation for
Extended. 

How about "Benutzerhandbuch Teil 2" (too long), or maybe
  Manual    ->  Benutzerhandbuch 1
  Extended  ->  Benutzerhandbuch 2

In the long term, I would like the Documentation to bee split into
more files, so that loading becomes faster and navigating easier.
 
> I think you should bring this up on the documentation list? 
> 
>       [email protected]
> 
> (There's not much traffic on that list so it's not a problem to subscribe 
> to it as well).

Done so, so see my next follow-ups there. 

> As for searching/indexing, I agree that it would be helpful but I'm not 
> sure how it should be done. Thoughts?

Help Index:

- Label all headings and provide a document with just reference buttons
  (needs a "Goto reference opens files" feature).

Search:

- grep in the source and jump to the pages? 

- Provide a html version of the docs? (Maybe just on lyx.org with a
  downloadable tar.gz-archive). 
  
  + This will be automatically indexed by search machines.
   
  + The lyx wiki can easily link to the standard documentation.
  
  + People can download them for offline-reading if wanted
    (Debian could offer a lyx-doc package like done for many other
    packages)
  
  + This would also be helpfull if you want to have a look at both, the
    help and your document at the same time. (Well, you could also open a
    second LyX...)
  

G�nter

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