>> I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics
>> but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is
>> reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool
>> for index entry.
> Lyx has multi-level index entries. The question
> becomes - what is the problem? We who don't do
> history/sociology can't really know what you're
> missing.
A book of history, sociology, journalist research,
etc., have several pages with several hundred of
names, issues, sub-issues in alphabetical order.
This index is a greatest, bored and very difficult
work without a smart tool for it.
> A good detailed description of the problem is a
> good base.
1) Difficult for index entry without assist.
Examples:
a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen
I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on
Insert > Index Entry and get a dialog box with the
word Schonhausen, then I must add the rest of name
without any misspelling each time that this name
appears.
b) I have: Karl August von Hardenberg
Again, I get in dialog box Hardenberg and I must
add the rest of the name without any error each time.
Note that in a book, after first mention, author
only write last name but when make index entry he need
remember the whole name. When the author make index
entry and arrive at the middle of book encounter
hundred of last names: Bismark? ... ehh ... with or
without von? ... Oto or Otto? ... Schonhauser?
... Schonhaussen? ... Schomberg?
Of course, Germans have not problem with names
like this, but Germans have problems with French,
Spanish, Russian, etc.
A book may contain several hundred of names in
foreign languages, each name may appears several
tens of times, and dialog box not have any assist
for this work.
I suggest a dialog box that show an alphabetical
list of previous entries and that to allow choose
and pick up a complete index entry of this list,
or add a new entry.
2) Absence of sub-issues.
Example:
I need get it.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 7,8, 56, 95.
Bonaparte in Egypt, 111-119, 142.
Bonaparte in Italy, 39, 160, 184.
3) Absence of item without page number.
Examples:
I need get it.
Stalin (see Dzhugachvili, Iosif Visarionovich)
von Radetz, count Radetzky (see Radetzky, Joseph)
> If you can point out how the ideal solution ought to be,
> then that helps too of course.
For case 1 this was made. For case 3 may be add to the dialog box a check box
with option for no page number. For case 2, dialog box must allow choose an
index entry and mark a check box for sub-issue.
> The very best way to ask for new features is to provide > a patch
> implementing them. :-) Unfortunately, only
> programmers can do that.
I am not a C programmer. Sorry.
> Note that nothing new will be added to lyx right now,
> as all work goes into bugfixing before the release of
> the upcoming lyx 1.4.0. But feel free to plan future
> enhancements.
OK. I understand this.
I was seduced for Lyx promise that Lyx will take it
the load of work and that the author will forget the
most of this routine work. I think that this idea is
brilliant and that implementing more assist to the
author the number of users of Lyx will be greater.
Assist to index entry and other features (like a
front-end with radio buttons and check box for
several options that currently we get editing preamble
and adding several lines of code;
spell check in flight;
grammar check (in Spanish, please);
plug-in that show a list of synonymous of a word
(again, multi-language);
will extend Lyx from mathematical authors to
the rest of world.
> Helge Hafting
Ehh! I noted that, in this letter, right border
is very ragged ;-)
Regards.
Marcelo Acuña
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