On Tue, 30 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote:
Ich konne ein bischen LaTex, aber keine Deutsch. Ich supposedlieren :-)
Deutsch gelernt auf Hochschule, aber neiiiiiiinnn!
Ok, that parody didn't come out as well as I'd hoped...
Nor did mine :-)
Well, I certainly enjoyed your "neiiiiiinnn" :-)
* People feel that it's too difficult to upload the layout...
Yes, I feel the layouts are too hard to upload. I hardly know how to use
wikis at all.
I'd be happy to help with this of course. More importantly probably, I'm
very grateful for any tips on *what* it is that makes it diffiult. If it
so difficult that people as you don't to it, the entire LyX community is
missing out...
I'll gratefully accept your help. I have 2 problems with wikis
1) I don't know (and forget when I do know) all the shortcuts for various
lines, heading levels and the like.
Hmm, ok I see. When it comes to remembering the markup, have you ever
noticed the icons just below the edit area? See here for instance
http://wiki.lyx.org/Playground/TestBox?action=edit
The icons are just below the text "Editing Playground.TestBox". Do you
think these help, or are they just confusing?
I would also like to know what you think about the help text below the
edit field. Is it too much information, so it is just confusing? Maybe it
should only contain some of the really common markup?
2) The whole thing looks very intimidating to me. It's like I'm overwhelmed,
and don't know where to start with a wiki.
I see ... or rather I don't. Or maybe I sort of do. Is it a question of
there being to many new things at once?
If the help text below the edit area would contain a big fat link saying
that you can go and practice editing in the playground, do you think that
would help?
One other question -- when submitting all these layouts, how do we
license them so they're free software that can be used, modified, copied
and redistruted by everyone?
Eh... I'd probably answer GPL, but I have no real clue. This question also
concerns anything you simply write on the wiki. Here's the relevant text
that I put on the wiki a long time ago
http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/Copyrights
Not sure that it helps though, and maybe it needs to be expanded?
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
