Rich Shepard wrote:
> As long as it does not require KDE to run it's OK with me. I agree that
You can use whichever KDE application in whatever environment if you have
installed kdelibs.
> In contrast to what you want in the way of fine-scale control, I like
It is not about fine-scale control, but about modifications and
extensibility.
> Isn't this outside the purpose of a typesetting/publication system? Why
> not exchange ASCII text files or OO.o files when drafts are being passed
> around?
That's the question -- are we really talking about "typesetting/publication
system" or authoring system? Or to say it more bluntly -- do we want
PageMaker/FrameMaker (LaTeX based) or more author-friendly
XMEtal/Amaya/Epic (LaTeX based, so far)? I am all for the latter and
moreover, I think that LyX is fundamentally poor substitute for the former.
If you want it, go for Scribus, or something like that.
> A lot of us don't use KDE ... or Gnome, either.
How big lot is this log? Does anybody know a proportion of Linux users of
LyX per DE they use (KDE, Gnome, WM, something else?).
> Unfortunately, no application fulfills all the needs each of us has.
Yes, but every application should have clear goal what it wants to
accomplish ("Do one thing and do it well."). IMHO, LyX was supposed to be
first-class authoring environment for scientific/scholarly writing. What
about that?
Matej
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