From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 12:54:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA14776 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 12:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA14102 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 12:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dingo.enc.edu (dingo.enc.edu [199.93.252.229]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA04889; Wed, 8 May 1996 15:49:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 15:49:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: word processor In-Reply-To: <199605081928.MAA01010@athena.tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 May 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Charles Owens: > > From: Richard Chang > > 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... . Welp, I'd love to, except for two things: 1. I'm strapped for time (whine, whine, whine...) and 2. I've never built a port before. So, given time, I'd likely do it my self... If you want it sooner, however, then I'd be glad to ship the pieces (tgz's, diffs, etc.) to someone else to put it together, however, and answer any questions... Whadaya think? --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------