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To: Jürgen Spitzmüller; lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal
From: Jürgen Spitzmüller [sp...@lyx.org]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 5:07 AM
>John Tapsell wrote:
>> If you need people to read documentation, the GUI is too complicated.
>
From: Jürgen Spitzmüller [sp...@lyx.org]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 5:07 AM
>John Tapsell wrote:
>> If you need people to read documentation, the GUI is too complicated.
>>
>> It should be so simple that you don't need documentation.
>Good point.
I'm not completely convinced by this argument (a
John Tapsell wrote:
> If you need people to read documentation, the GUI is too complicated.
>
> It should be so simple that you don't need documentation.
Good point.
Jürgen
On 1 June 2012 09:40, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Liviu Andronic wrote:
>> Definitely not. When I started using LyX, it took me several months to
>> get to the bottom of how to use BibTeX bibliography. I even wrote a
>> step-by-step procedure in the LyX Essentials [1] (see Section 12). I
>> do not
Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Definitely not. When I started using LyX, it took me several months to
> get to the bottom of how to use BibTeX bibliography. I even wrote a
> step-by-step procedure in the LyX Essentials [1] (see Section 12). I
> do not have any specific ideas GUI-wise, but I do think that
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> I would like to get some opinions on this before I start working on it. Am I
> alone in thinking the GUI is confusing?
>
Definitely not. When I started using LyX, it took me several months to
get to the bottom of how to use BibTeX bibliograp
Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> Excellent point. I'm not sure where I stand on this but your argument is
> strong. Something that I think would still be in line with this good
> practice would be to allow for a personal .bib folder. I would personally
> prefer to have my custom .bibs listed by themselves
From: Jürgen Spitzmüller [sp...@lyx.org]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:23 AM
>Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> I would like to get some opinions on this before I start working on it. Am I
>> alone in thinking the GUI is confusing? Do most people use the example
>> .bibs more than their own .bibs? Or perh
From: John Tapsell [johnf...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:21 AM
>On 1 June 2012 07:56, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> I find that the GUI for adding a bibtex bibliography is not optimized for
>> the most common use: adding your own bibliography. Is it very common to use
>> one of the examp
Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> I would like to get some opinions on this before I start working on it. Am I
> alone in thinking the GUI is confusing? Do most people use the example
> .bibs more than their own .bibs? Or perhaps people commonly store their
> user .bibs in the path so that what I am calling
On 1 June 2012 07:56, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> I find that the GUI for adding a bibtex bibliography is not optimized for
> the most common use: adding your own bibliography. Is it very common to use
> one of the example bibliographies? I also find that it's unintuitive if
> you're not used to it a
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