From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 7: 4:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawkins.cba.uni.edu (hawkins.cba.uni.edu [134.161.248.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B1814DB6 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:04:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu) Received: from hawkins.cba.uni.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by hawkins.cba.uni.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:04:48 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) To: iratus@home.com Cc: "Paul D. Schmidt" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lyx or something better? In-Reply-To: Message from iratus@home.com of "Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:50:46 PST." <3.0.6.32.19991130205046.008e8100@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 09:04:40 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello Paul-Lyx is a very powerful and mostly wysiwyg front end to Tex but > you might also want to take a look at LaTeX in the raw, so to speak. ack, ack, ack! :) It's not a frontend to latexany more (it used to be, but it's been a couple of years since that was true). It's freestanding, and uses latex as it's primary output, and can now read almost all latex. You can also embed latex in it when you run across anything that lyx doesn't do. \gratuitous_self_promoting_plug{Also, the mailmerge contrib package for form letters is written in lyx. It does pretty much what word 1-5.1 did, but with nesting and the like. There is a form letter package for latex, but it didn't do what I needed. It was easier to add to lyx than to send out 200 job letters with word's current excuse for mail-merge.} ob plug: It's currently a contrib package. I'm going to rewrite it as a library that lyx or anything else can call. I can't bear to see my baby face the GPL . . . rick -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu (319) 266-7114 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message