Re: Message on TeX OS Mac Mailing List

[Jim Lewis]

I installed Lyx to take a look at it from the standpoint of a LaTeX 
user, and found it very interesting. However, the following message was 
sent to TeX OS Mac Mailing List which you should be aware of: the 
sender is one of the leading TeX experts:


I just discovered that there is now a binary LyX that runs natively on
OS X with an Aqua interface without using X11. It was released on July
3. It's a "document processor" that uses Gerben's teTeX as its
typesetting engine. It appears to be free open-source software. I've
installed it, but haven't had time yet to explore how it works and
what it can do. Installation is standard and very easy aside from the
tricky little detail of creating a new .plist file.
http://www.lyx.org/
The creation of environment.plist as suggested has nasty security
implications, mainly because it influences all GUI apps, not only LyX.
I would certainly not use LyX until the path settings requirements were
removed from the general GUI-app environment to LyX-specific
preferences in ~/Library/Preferences
I'm going to be better safe than sorry, so I'd appreciate anyone's help 
in uninstalling the Lyx files from machine. I use OS 10.2.6. When I try 
to trash the application and environment.plist I get a message saying 
that these belong to the root. BTW, I'm the administrator of my machine.

Thanks,

Jim Lewis