Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
The new (4.0 IIRC) version of LibreOffice had problems on the Mac I'm at 4.1. But I don't have a clue of its math support, since I wouldn't use it for writing documents anyway. Sincerely, Wolfgang

Re: OT: polychromatic fonts

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Today I read about Microsoft planning to unleash polychromatic fonts on the world. What do you make of them? As far as I can see, they're an ungodly monstrosity: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/polychromatic-digital-type What does MS know of typography. It took them something

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Version 1.0.0 of the software was released in 1999. by the way, in Tübingen, my home town braggard And it's hosted at one of my almae matres. At least the FTP server. /braggard ;- Sincerely, Wolfgang

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the past 15 years or so. The first public LyX version was when? Can't have been much longer than 10 years ago. That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said. I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some time late

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread John Kane
Kids.! Remember SGML on the IBM mainframe? And did you know that you could use IBM punch cards as postcards? From: Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:01:08 AM Subject: Re: Question:

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread David L. Johnson
On 08/25/2013 09:01 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said. I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some time late in the 90s, but it must have been after 1995. Not exactly. It began either in 95 or earlier, and the original

install-tl-ubuntu (easily install TeX Live 2013 on Ubuntu)

2013-08-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak
This program is meant to ease the installation of TeX Live 2013 on Ubuntu versions 12.04 and later. To use, simply run sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu It provides the following features: - installs TeX Live 2013 - notifies apt so that apt does not try to install the Ubuntu texlive-* packages as

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
The new (4.0 IIRC) version of LibreOffice had problems on the Mac I'm at 4.1. But I don't have a clue of its math support, since I wouldn't use it for writing documents anyway. Sincerely, Wolfgang

Re: OT: polychromatic fonts

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Today I read about Microsoft planning to unleash polychromatic fonts on the world. What do you make of them? As far as I can see, they're an ungodly monstrosity: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/polychromatic-digital-type What does MS know of typography. It took them something

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Version 1.0.0 of the software was released in 1999. by the way, in Tübingen, my home town braggard And it's hosted at one of my almae matres. At least the FTP server. /braggard ;- Sincerely, Wolfgang

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the past 15 years or so. The first public LyX version was when? Can't have been much longer than 10 years ago. That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said. I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some time late

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread John Kane
Kids.! Remember SGML on the IBM mainframe? And did you know that you could use IBM punch cards as postcards? From: Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:01:08 AM Subject: Re: Question:

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread David L. Johnson
On 08/25/2013 09:01 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said. I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some time late in the 90s, but it must have been after 1995. Not exactly. It began either in 95 or earlier, and the original

install-tl-ubuntu (easily install TeX Live 2013 on Ubuntu)

2013-08-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak
This program is meant to ease the installation of TeX Live 2013 on Ubuntu versions 12.04 and later. To use, simply run sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu It provides the following features: - installs TeX Live 2013 - notifies apt so that apt does not try to install the Ubuntu texlive-* packages as

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> The new (4.0 IIRC) version of LibreOffice had problems on the Mac I'm at 4.1. But I don't have a clue of its math support, since I wouldn't use it for writing documents anyway. Sincerely, Wolfgang

Re: OT: polychromatic fonts

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Today I read about Microsoft planning to unleash polychromatic fonts > on the world. What do you make of them? As far as I can see, they're > an ungodly monstrosity: > http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/polychromatic-digital-type What does MS know of typography. It took them

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Version 1.0.0 of the software was released in 1999. > by the way, in Tübingen, my home town And it's hosted at one of my almae matres. At least the FTP server. >;-> Sincerely, Wolfgang

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> > > And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the past 15 years or so. > > > > The first public LyX version was when? Can't have been much longer > > than 10 years ago. That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said. I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread John Kane
Kids.! Remember SGML on the IBM mainframe? And did you know that you could use IBM punch cards as postcards? From: Wolfgang Keller To: LyX Users List Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:01:08 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

2013-08-25 Thread David L. Johnson
On 08/25/2013 09:01 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said. I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some time late in the 90s, but it must have been after 1995. Not exactly. It began either in 95 or earlier, and the original

install-tl-ubuntu (easily install TeX Live 2013 on Ubuntu)

2013-08-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak
This program is meant to ease the installation of TeX Live 2013 on Ubuntu versions 12.04 and later. To use, simply run sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu It provides the following features: - installs TeX Live 2013 - notifies apt so that apt does not try to install the Ubuntu texlive-* packages as