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LyX version 0.8a released (WYSIWYG front-end to LaTeX2e)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jan 13 17:44:10 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 21:17:19 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "David L. Johnson" <dlj0@lehigh.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: LyX version 0.8a released (WYSIWYG front-end to LaTeX2e)
Organization: Lehigh University
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LyX beta version 0.8a has been released. This represents a number of
improvements over the earlier release (0.7). It was written by Matthias
Ettrich, with the support of a growing network of developers.
LyX is an almost-WYSIWYG wordprocessing frontend to LaTeX. At the
moment, mathematical equations and imported graphics do not appear in
WYSIWYG mode while editing, but font styles and document layout do.
Since LaTeX does the typesetting for the program, rather than the user,
such things as line and page breaks, pagination, table of contents, and
making space for equations and graphics are not displayed during
editing, but are determined when you are ready to print.
On the other hand, many of the obscure LaTeX commands to control
fontsizes, symbols, and layout are automated by LyX, so that such
operations as tables, outlines, indentations for quotations, footnotes,
and marginal notes are easily created by menu choices (with keyboard
accelerators), so that even those who know no LaTeX can use it
effectively. This combination of LaTeX's power and word-processor ease
of use is LyX's strength. None of LaTeX's power and flexibility is
lost, and much of it is made available to novices.
This version has several improvements over the previous release:
1) There is a Table-of-Contents popup window to help navigate
documents.
2) Spell-checking is done through a connection to ispell (very nice)
3) International characters are supported (Cyrillic and European, with
the possibility of extension to others).
4) A configure script simplifies compilation.
5) There is a popup menu to enter most math symbols.
Many bugs in the earlier releases have also been fixed.
LyX can be obtained from http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html
or ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/lyx, and has been uploaded to
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming, from where it should soon
migrate to /pub/Linux/apps/editors/, and to mirrors of the sunsite
archive.
The file on my web page, and sunsite, includes a linux a.out binary,
with static XForms library _and_ static libXpm, since the version of
libXpm used is critical for the Xforms library, and many new linux
systems may have trouble. On other systems, you need to make sure that
the Xforms library (needed to compile) is compatible with the version of
libXpm (also needed) you have on your system.
In order to completly utilize LyX, you need to have LaTeX2e (or newer)
on your system. LyX will not be able to preview or print, but can edit
and create LaTeX files, without it. Earlier versions of LaTeX (such as
2.09) will NOT work. Previewing of completely formatted documents
requires either xdvi or ghostview, spell-checking requires ispell.
There is support for various printer drivers, with dvips being the
default. Only one small nonstandard style file is used by LyX.
After this package was uploaded, there have already been a few
bug-reports:
1) On some systems, the configure script does not work. It does now
work on linux a.out, though. 8^)
2) math_symbols.C includes lyx.h twice.
3) If you change the alignment (left, right, center, or block) of a
paragraph, it seems to stick in that alignment. A workaround is to
change the style of the paragraph, then change back and re-do the
alignment.
4) Some systems, particularly those with early X versions, may have
trouble with bmtable.C
There will probably be a patch to fix these bugs in a few days.
- --
David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu
Department of Mathematics http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html
Lehigh University
14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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