From lyx-users Mon Jul 13 14:54:17 2009 From: Luca De Marini Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:54:17 +0000 To: lyx-users Subject: Re: RPG Manual with Lyx? Message-Id: <388de9300907130754p321593b5j577e8c2d73f9f81a () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=lyx-users&m=124749688731502 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--0016364993ad13c6f2046e977fe9" --0016364993ad13c6f2046e977fe9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 2009/7/13 Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW > >> > > >> There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with > > >> a little bit of ERT. > > > > > >Thank you very much for your suggestion. Of course I > >can use it but the question is: isn't it better to > >integrate it in Lyx so that people can use wallpapers > >normally? In any case, I'll do it with ERT for now. > > We have an option to specify the page background color now, why not > adding a wallpaper option indeed ? I'll propose this to the other > developers. Let's see what happens ;-). Yes, that's exactly what I meant :) > > > > I don't know how you want to design your RPG manual. But if you have > > complex and very graphically oriented pages, scribus is a better tool. > > > > I don't know scribus, but maybe it's a powerful combination to be able > to use scribus for the graphics part of your document and use LyX for > the text. > > >The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it > >can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a > >manual such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :) > > It's nice to push LyX to the limit. I can think of a special editor in > LyX to design header-styles, chapter-styles etc. etc., but it will take > some time before this can be done within LyX. For now, one has to code > LaTeX. > > > I'm very open to hear good ideas, .. > > Very nice to know :) What maybe someone is misunderstanding is I'm not asking for help on how to create an RPG manual, I created some of them already with Scribus and the result is more than interesting. Now, the point is SIMPLY that I love Lyx, this is going to be a pretty long distance project, meaning it will take some time to be done, so, I'm just proposing a case experiment to try and see what can be done :) When you have a goal to reach things can be seen in a much clearer way. If you are interested I can write down some sketches of what is needed when someone is designing this kind of document, with already created examples, and what could be implemented in Lyx to achieve that goal. So that we could analyze everything step by step and see if there's a way to implement this or that feature from Latex to Lyx. If we go trough this adventure I'm sure at the end Lyx's gonna have much more potential than now with not so many added features! I mean, surely we can optimize the needed features for this kind of work. A single new thing can be used to achieve many different results. All I need you all to understand is I'm not needing any help for this manual. I'm just dreaming of being able one day of creating these kind of docs with Lyx :) Greets, Luca --0016364993ad13c6f2046e977fe9--