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Subject: Re: word processor
To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens)
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 12:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
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