On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:05:43 +0100
José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I would like to know when was the development of LyX started?
>
> This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all
> hears. :-)
>
> > I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995.
> >
> > But when was it first announced or released to the public?
>
> In 95, David mentioned last month that he still used the motif based
> version. (At version 1.5 :-)
Oh, no, I don't still use that version. But I got more involved after I
found the program (who here remembers when Matthias called it "LyriX"?)
because of motif. In order to compile it under linux, you needed motif
libraries. I had actually gone out and paid for them, so provided (legally, I
think...) binaries. Heck, I think the first ones were static binaries. The
whole tarball, with binary, fit on one floppy disk. I also built AIX-3.5
binaries, and some of those are still in the archives.
The name was changed because someone contacted Matthias threatening to sue,
that name having been taken for a word processor of some sort.
I no longer can find any of these old binaries. But, they were carved on
clay tablets, anyway, so I couldn't read them now.
I believe Matthias released his first version sometime in 1995. It did not
display math at all. All formulas were ERT. Yes, it was red, even back then.
I don't recall a version number.
--
David L. Johnson
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