From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 03:32:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A797916A419 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 03:32:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B02D13C447 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 03:32:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so2275452pyb for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:32:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=K4gnV+9F15hiwyUZVbFfl982QZOAy9QuzUGq/L1apGQ=; b=UBfwYaH1B2+lP65+ll64A4MjqAYaAbM5jKdn9mpw2qis80ppS9c16v+j0J6dLsuSevEGU/d14ibQeyXEPqcExZhh/bureBmf7FJuc5haXVjBY31mils/xm9Q1tZWkYKMVoXdT7K1uu3DgvbraON1+oukRZ3U+4RyhwdRqQkF4ec= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RMThGqPeqvZQsu0sJVzPsS/ltIa7G8ZIiqs0iQuUA4PmnNsgT5LPbWLq1zF5dCIJJ+NVJ+/cX5u7PwedlslTAFzInG/Ogojt99gATLEq2o/0ckywIAUGnpahiRbUrv1jZeAt2IRJ5gcQU/d+MAphMXxfg5mmOFf+F5Cotzi6FhU= Received: by 10.65.240.17 with SMTP id s17mr5989241qbr.1191814347471; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:32:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.105.2 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 20:32:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 03:32:27 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: "Predrag Punosevac" , "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <4709A2D4.4080201@math.arizona.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4709A2D4.4080201@math.arizona.edu> Cc: Subject: Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:32:28 -0000 > Yes there is wyswyg editor for TeX. Look among ports. I do not use one > like most long time TeX users as it is useless. Every time you compile lyx and I like it so far. > You sound like using TeX is a bad thing and so difficult. It is not my > 11 year old nice uses for her homeworks. >From what little experience I have with PS and *roff the idea of hacking inline embedded languages just for typesetting sounds stupid beyond belief.... now that being said since I do need to do the following (I run a small software vendor that also does some basic CS research): * Business communications * Technical writing (manuals) * Scientific writing and since all the more "traditional" (sorry I do not think of any inline text language as being "traditional") word processing crash on my machine (for programming I am very comfortable with nvi and have never seen the need for anything else) that leaves stuff like the embedded text langs, but for most stuff I don't want to have to write a "program" (aka source code) for a "Dear Customer, Your trial period is over" type letter (talk about over kill)... but if I use VI it looks like crap so some type setting is needed