Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 07:39:18 -0800 From: iratus@home.com To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu> Cc: "Paul D. Schmidt" <pds@uberhacker.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lyx or something better? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991201073918.008ec790@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <m11tBJI-000QjWC@hawkins.cba.uni.edu> References: <Message from iratus@home.com of "Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:50:46 PST." <3.0.6.32.19991130205046.008e8100@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com>
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At 09:04 12/1/99 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
>
>> Hello Paul-Lyx is a very powerful and mostly wysiwyg front end to Tex but
>> you might also want to take a look at LaTeX in the raw, so to speak.
>
>ack, ack, ack! :) It's not a frontend to latexany more (it used to be,
>but it's been a couple of years since that was true). It's
>freestanding, and uses latex as it's primary output, and can now read
>almost all latex. You can also embed latex in it when you run across
>anything that lyx doesn't do.
>
>\gratuitous_self_promoting_plug{Also, the mailmerge contrib package for form
>letters is written in lyx. It does pretty much what word 1-5.1 did,
>but with nesting and the like. There is a form letter package for
>latex, but it didn't do what I needed. It was easier to add to lyx
>than to send out 200 job letters with word's current excuse for
>mail-merge.}
>
>ob plug: It's currently a contrib package. I'm going to rewrite it as
>a library that lyx or anything else can call. I can't bear to see my
>baby face the GPL . . .
>
>rick
>
>--
>Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu
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>
>
gaaakkkk gakk +++hairball++= Thanks for the info-I knew I should have stuck
my nose out of the Lamport book long enough to get a breath of coffee :-)
Thanks for the heads up... Jeff
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