Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 12:28:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: word processor Message-ID: <199605081928.MAA01010@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960508081536.5576A-100000@dingo.enc.edu> from Charles Owens at "May 8, 96 08:39:13 am"
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According to Charles Owens: > From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> > Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 19:01:30 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: word processor > > > > [[ ... ]] > > > > Hmmm, is noname a Word Processor and is there anyway to do > > calligraphy type fonts? > > 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). > This sounds very interesting. Are you willing to make a port of this for the rest of us? (lyx+latex+babel+linuxdoc or however it fits together) I've been tempted to put `something' together out of noname once the Lesstif project is further along. vi for 99% of things and `something' for the rest. But this lyx sounds promising... . Just wondering. gary kline
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