From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 7:39:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A0415ACA for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:39:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iratus@home.com) Received: from cc602670-a ([24.0.114.133]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991201153918.IDGF11757.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@cc602670-a>; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:39:18 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19991201073918.008ec790@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> X-Sender: iratus@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 07:39:18 -0800 To: "Richard E. Hawkins" From: iratus@home.com Subject: Re: lyx or something better? Cc: "Paul D. Schmidt" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >(319) 266-7114 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk >These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message