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Date:      Wed, 8 May 1996 09:55:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
Cc:        questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject:   Re: word processor
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960508095251.29692A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960508081536.5576A-100000@dingo.enc.edu>

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On Wed, 8 May 1996, Charles Owens wrote:

> I can't comment about 'noname' but I've been playing with 'lyx', and I'm
> quite impressed!  It's a very usable almost-WYSIWYG front end to LaTeX,
> complete with support for previewing via xdvi and ghostview,
> spell-checking with ispell, multilingual support, and linuxdoc SGML
> generation. 
> 
> For info, see  http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html
> 
> To get it going, I installed the latex package, a newer version of
> the Xforms library, and the 'babel' latex extension (ftp'd from CTAN).
> 
> I also installed the linuxdoc distrib
> (http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/Linuxdoc-SGML.html), which compiled fine once
> I removed signal 9 from the trap commands in the included shell scripts,
> and installed the flex package.
> 
> Anyhow, I now have a very nice word proc which does nice (latex quality)
> printing, and an easy route to generating HTML equivilants (via linuxdoc).

Lyrix == noname.  He renamed it.  Get the noname README from 
wcarchive.cdrom.com, /pub/FreeBSD/incoming.


==========================================================================
Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2
 
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