From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 22:12:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wcarey.com (mail.wcarey.com [209.181.61.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E574514E3A for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:12:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wcarey@wcarey.com) Received: from mail.wcarey.com (mail.wcarey.com [209.181.61.113]) by mail.wcarey.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA98355; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:18:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wcarey@wcarey.com) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:18:43 -0800 (PST) From: Woody Carey To: "Paul D. Schmidt" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lyx or something better? In-Reply-To: <19991130210718.C10248@uberhacker.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have had great success with LyX, and it seems to have active development, so that is good, too. Give it a shot. Or you could do like the late W. Richard Stevens did and write your entire 700 page book in troff with vi. Your choice... FreeBSD - How hardcore do you want to be today? - Woods On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Paul D. Schmidt wrote: > Hello, I need to write a manual of sorts, and I was thinking of using lyx > for the typesetting. I want it to look nice but I want to have to "code" > my document by writing TeX macros or whatever myself... > > Does lyx seem like hte right program to use, or should I know about anything > else? > > Thanks, > Paul > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message