Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
You know what would be good documentation? "The 25 Biggest Surprises in LyX
and How to Work With Them". It's basically a FAQ with potential landmines and
how to avoid/workaround them.
I'll start out with the ones I know of:
[Some points deleted]
* Must use units on all lengths
Correct, but where is the surprise?
LyX has many dialogs where you enter a length, such
as "insert vertical space, custom size" or box/margin sizes.
There is always a unit combobox next to the value
though, so I don't see a surprise? The user even sees
what unit will be used, if he doesn't make any
explicit choice.
* Must delete/recreate source tree to compile after config failure
Compile/config docs would be nice - sure.
* Must run texhash after adding new LaTeX class/style
* Must reconfiigure after change to layout file
* You can make a script to do the reconfigure
Sure - documentation for the advanced user.
* TOC/Index/crossreference often require multiple compiles to register
LyX is supposed to handle this automatically, so
why is documentation needed? For those that
run latex manually anyway? I thought yhey knew?
Helge Hafting
