Early I asked since LyX is UI Independent whether or not a desire for a Cocoa UI has been posted besides from myself.
With much of the UI available by AppKit already it would seem if someone has ObjC experience they could ObjC++ LyX and offer this as well as other benefits.
My request pretty much went nowhere with Qt/Mac being present, even though AppKit and Qt aren't the same beasts.
Funny, I first learned of LyX when a person asked on one of the comp.sys.next groups about LyX running in NeXTstep.
Since then, I've continued to think it'd be a very nice program to have running in NeXTstep, or Mac OS X, or GNUstep---that last strikes me as the most promising route, once it's running there, porting to OS X should be trivial.
For those who're curious, the payoff would (could?) be:
- support for Services
- direct use of OS X's printing architecture, incl. pdfservices
- better performance / less use of memory (don't have to load QT support stuff, just use the Cocoa objects already in memory)
That said, I'm _very_ glad to have LyX/Mac, and it's one of the first things I install on an OS X system.
George Baum then clued me in on:
The tex2lyx converter that should become a replacement for reLyX to import
latex someday does keep comments in most cases and gives a warning if it
has to drop one.
See http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg30759.html for
more infg on tex2lyx.
Excellent news!
Thanks!
William
