Incorrect User guide documentation for passing options to nomencl package

[Diab Jerius]

On 1/8/21 1:30 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 1/5/21 5:30 PM, Diab Jerius wrote:
>>
>> Howdy!
>>
>> In the English version of the User's Guide which ships with LyX 
>> 2.3.2, the instructions for passing options to the nomencl package 
>> are incorrect.
>>
>> The instructions (§6.7.3) state
>>
>>     To use one or more of the options, add them to the
>>     comma-separated document class options list in the
>>     Document->Settings dialog. 
>>
>> However, This doesn't work. Instead one needs to add them to 
>> Document->Local Layout,
>>
>>     PackageOptions nomencl "refpage,intoc"
>>
> I wonder why this doesn't work. Class options are passed to 
> downsrtream packages unless they are used by the class file. What 
> class file are you using here?
>
It's something I've written myself. I've attached the layout file.

>> (BTW, The downloadable manuals from 
>> https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals#UserGuide are out of date.  Is there 
>> a better place to get the latest ones?)
>
> I'm not sure what the status of these is. Of course you can compile 
> themselves from the Help menu.
>
To be clearer, I was looking for the repository for the manuals so that 
I could see if there were changes from the ones in the release.

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