Re: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-05 Thread miyata
"Arnd Hanses" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #ifndef strcasecmp #define strcasecmp stricmp // emx uses M$ fn name instead of posix name??! #define _strcasecmp stricmp #endif Better to use AC_CHECK_FUNCS(strcasecmp strncasecmp stricmp strnicmp) and #if !defined(HAVE_STRCASECMP)

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-05 Thread miyata
"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #ifndef strcasecmp > #define strcasecmp stricmp // emx uses M$ fn name instead of posix > name??! > #define _strcasecmp stricmp > #endif Better to use AC_CHECK_FUNCS(strcasecmp strncasecmp stricmp strnicmp) and #if !defined(HAVE_STRCASECMP) &&

Re: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Duncan Simpson
RTF is an excellent solution to the word to something else, inclyding LyX, problem. Not only does it support practically everything bar macro virii but it is also documented and reasonably sensible (quite a contrast with Word binary format, which is subject to NDAs and baroque to put it

Re: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
duncan delivered, RTF is an excellent solution to the word to something else, inclyding LyX, problem. Not only does it support practically everything bar macro virii but it is also documented and reasonably sensible (quite a contrast with Word binary format, which is subject to NDAs and

Re: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 18:58:46 +0100, Duncan Simpson wrote: Given the only way to fix bugs in word is to upgrade, which costs money, conspiracy theorists would say I was right :-) IMHO they might not be entirely wrong. Word 98 is avuabale without a NDA but the file format itself is just as

Re: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Arnd Hanses wrote: As it seems, Word 8 is now de facto the international standard for document exchange, even in the internet and within specialized academic contexts. LaTeX 'market share' is rapidly decreasing. Even Linux people seem to adhere more and more (see the new xyzOffice suite

Re: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Arnd Hanses wrote: As it seems, Word 8 is now de facto the international standard for document exchange, even in the internet and within specialized academic contexts. LaTeX 'market share' is rapidly decreasing. Even Linux people seem to adhere more and more (see the new

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Duncan Simpson
RTF is an excellent solution to the word to something else, inclyding LyX, problem. Not only does it support practically everything bar macro virii but it is also documented and reasonably sensible (quite a contrast with Word binary format, which is subject to NDAs and baroque to put it

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
duncan delivered, > RTF is an excellent solution to the word to something else, inclyding LyX, > problem. Not only does it support practically everything bar macro virii but > it is also documented and reasonably sensible (quite a contrast with Word > binary format, which is subject to NDAs

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 18:58:46 +0100, Duncan Simpson wrote: > Given the only way to fix bugs in word is to upgrade, which costs money, >conspiracy theorists would say I was right :-) IMHO they might not be entirely >wrong. Word 98 is avuabale without a NDA but the file format itself is just as

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Arnd Hanses wrote: > > As it seems, Word 8 is now de facto the international standard for > document exchange, even in the internet and within specialized academic > contexts. LaTeX 'market share' is rapidly decreasing. Even Linux people > seem to adhere more and more (see the new xyzOffice

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Arnd Hanses wrote: > As it seems, Word 8 is now de facto the international standard for > document exchange, even in the internet and within specialized academic > contexts. LaTeX 'market share' is rapidly decreasing. Even Linux people > seem to adhere more and more (see the

M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-02 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:48:30 -0700 From: Levente NOVÁK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch Hello Alejandro, There is a very good RTF to LaTeX converter, namely rtf2latex2e which can

M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch (fwd)

1999-09-02 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:48:30 -0700 From: Levente NOVÁK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch Hello Alejandro, There is a very good RTF to LaTeX converter, namely rtf2latex2e

Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
Hi Lyxers! Hi Robert! Back on the list again (after aprox. 3 years). Yes, I remember those old days when you used to contribute something very good then forgot it and later you contributed something else. ;-) Have you been using LyX since then? Downloaded lyx 1.0.3. I can see you've

M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Robert van der Kamp wrote: Hi Alejandro! Good to hear from you. Likewise! :) The company I work for didn't like it, because it didn't have import/export filters to MS Word (has this changed now?), so I looked for something else (but couldn't really find anything

Re: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Markus Mohr
Well, AFAIK no, but recently I knew of something that could be useful. There is a library called MSWordView (http://www.gnu.org/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html) that can import binary office97 word files. The Abi guys (http//www.abisource.com) use it to import M$ Word into AbiWord so I think it

Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Robert van der Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi Lyxers! | | Back on the list again (after aprox. 3 years). | Downloaded lyx 1.0.3. I can see you've been quite busy. | For the moment I don't have concrete developing plans with Lyx, | I'll just watch this list for a while... | | Anyway,

Re: M$ Word - LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Robert van der Kamp wrote: Ah, there is some new import/export(?) design? I will have to study that. I guess that relyx will be changed into a plugin too? In that case, the Word - LyX converter should become a plugin as well. There is a new document structure that can

Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
> Hi Lyxers! Hi Robert! > Back on the list again (after aprox. 3 years). Yes, I remember those old days when you used to contribute something very good then forgot it and later you contributed something else. ;-) Have you been using LyX since then? > Downloaded lyx 1.0.3. I can see you've

M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Robert van der Kamp wrote: > Hi Alejandro! Good to hear from you. Likewise! :) > The company I work for didn't like it, because it didn't have > import/export filters to MS Word (has this changed now?), so I looked > for something else (but couldn't really find anything

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Markus Mohr
> Well, AFAIK no, but recently I knew of something that could be useful. > There is a library called MSWordView > (http://www.gnu.org/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html) that can import binary > office97 word files. The Abi guys (http//www.abisource.com) use it to > import M$ Word into AbiWord so I

Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Robert van der Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi Lyxers! | | Back on the list again (after aprox. 3 years). | Downloaded lyx 1.0.3. I can see you've been quite busy. | For the moment I don't have concrete developing plans with Lyx, | I'll just watch this list for a while... | | Anyway,

Re: M$ Word -> LyX (was Re: Hi and small scroll wheel patch

1999-08-21 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Robert van der Kamp wrote: > Ah, there is some new import/export(?) design? I will have to study > that. I guess that relyx will be changed into a plugin too? In that case, > the Word -> LyX converter should become a plugin as well. There is a new document structure that