Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 07:39:18 -0800 From: iratus@home.com To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu> Cc: "Paul D. Schmidt" <pds@uberhacker.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lyx or something better? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991201073918.008ec790@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <m11tBJI-000QjWC@hawkins.cba.uni.edu> References: <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>
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At 09:04 12/1/99 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > >> 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. > > gaaakkkk gakk +++hairball++= Thanks for the info-I knew I should have stuck my nose out of the Lamport book long enough to get a breath of coffee :-) Thanks for the heads up... Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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