On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:53 PM, stefano franchi > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > 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. > > > > Way earlier than that. I switched to Lyx after I completed my > dissertation > > (which I wrote in Framemaker, on a NeXt cube. Boy am I old!). I defended > in > > 1997... > > > I can see at least the 1.1.1 release in Oct 1999: > http://git.lyx.org/?p=lyx.git;a=commitdiff;h=refs/tags/1.1.1 . There > might have been something earlier, but this is already 14 years ago. > Also, the copyright notice states "LyX is Copyright (C) 1995 by > Matthias Ettrich, > 1995--2013 LyX Team". > > Stefano, you must have been one of the very early adopters. > > Well, I may be off 1 year. I do remember I started using Lyx after my degree but before I left Stanford for New Zealand. So that's between June '97 and Dec '99. Do I get a cookie? S. -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA [email protected] http://stefano.cleinias.org
