Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:04, Stephen Harris wrote: Jose' Matos wrote: Things have improved a lot meanwhile. It is on my plans to have a ready to go system for fedora as, I am sure, there are for other linux distributions. You know best! Is there an objective method used in

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:29, David Neeley wrote: There are a number of package/installation systems in Linux--perhaps as we get true Linux Standard Base-compliant we can settle those down a great deal! I have also heard good things about yum (making up for some of the rpm deficiencies);

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:04, Stephen Harris wrote: Jose' Matos wrote: Things have improved a lot meanwhile. It is on my plans to have a ready to go system for fedora as, I am sure, there are for other linux distributions. You know best! Is there an objective method used in

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:29, David Neeley wrote: There are a number of package/installation systems in Linux--perhaps as we get true Linux Standard Base-compliant we can settle those down a great deal! I have also heard good things about yum (making up for some of the rpm deficiencies);

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:04, Stephen Harris wrote: > Jose' Matos wrote: > > > > Things have improved a lot meanwhile. It is on my plans to have a ready > > to go system for fedora as, I am sure, there are for other linux > > distributions. > > You know best! Is there an objective method used

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:29, David Neeley wrote: > There are a number of package/installation systems in Linux--perhaps > as we get true Linux Standard Base-compliant we can settle those down > a great deal! I have also heard good things about yum (making up for > some of the rpm

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:52, Stephen Harris wrote: SH: The Docbook topic comes up occasionally. Chris Karakas has done quite a bit of work producing with LyX, SGML, and Latex. http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ There is quite a bit involved to get all the packages working together IMO.

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Stephen Harris
Jose' Matos wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:52, Stephen Harris wrote: SH: The Docbook topic comes up occasionally. Chris Karakas has done quite a bit of work producing with LyX, SGML, and Latex. http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ There is quite a bit involved to get all the packages working

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread David Neeley
In my view, it would be just as well if the xforms front end were discarded in favor of one using the GTK libraries (used by Gnome, originating from the GIMP work IIRC). I have not met anyone in some years using *any* version of Linux that did not have at least qt or gtk, in most cases both,

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread David Neeley
In my view, it would be just as well if the xforms front end were discarded in favor of one using the GTK libraries (used by Gnome, originating from the GIMP work IIRC). I have not met anyone in some years using *any* version of Linux that did not have at least qt or gtk, in most cases both,

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: Personally, I have a clear preference for kde, so the qt interface is fine by me! ... I do to. They have a 3.14 package for Cygwin. But I've just read that a new version of KDE came out May31,06 3.53? so 3.14 is too old. Also they are going to make a native port using Qt4

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:52, Stephen Harris wrote: SH: The Docbook topic comes up occasionally. Chris Karakas has done quite a bit of work producing with LyX, SGML, and Latex. http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ There is quite a bit involved to get all the packages working together IMO.

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Stephen Harris
Jose' Matos wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:52, Stephen Harris wrote: SH: The Docbook topic comes up occasionally. Chris Karakas has done quite a bit of work producing with LyX, SGML, and Latex. http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ There is quite a bit involved to get all the packages working

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread David Neeley
In my view, it would be just as well if the xforms front end were discarded in favor of one using the GTK libraries (used by Gnome, originating from the GIMP work IIRC). I have not met anyone in some years using *any* version of Linux that did not have at least qt or gtk, in most cases both,

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread David Neeley
In my view, it would be just as well if the xforms front end were discarded in favor of one using the GTK libraries (used by Gnome, originating from the GIMP work IIRC). I have not met anyone in some years using *any* version of Linux that did not have at least qt or gtk, in most cases both,

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: Personally, I have a clear preference for kde, so the qt interface is fine by me! ... I do to. They have a 3.14 package for Cygwin. But I've just read that a new version of KDE came out May31,06 3.53? so 3.14 is too old. Also they are going to make a native port using Qt4

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:52, Stephen Harris wrote: > SH: The Docbook topic comes up occasionally. Chris Karakas > has done quite a bit of work producing with LyX, SGML, and > Latex. http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ There is quite > a bit involved to get all the packages working together IMO.

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Stephen Harris
Jose' Matos wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:52, Stephen Harris wrote: SH: The Docbook topic comes up occasionally. Chris Karakas has done quite a bit of work producing with LyX, SGML, and Latex. http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ There is quite a bit involved to get all the packages working

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread David Neeley
In my view, it would be just as well if the xforms front end were discarded in favor of one using the GTK libraries (used by Gnome, originating from the GIMP work IIRC). I have not met anyone in some years using *any* version of Linux that did not have at least qt or gtk, in most cases both,

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread David Neeley
In my view, it would be just as well if the xforms front end were discarded in favor of one using the GTK libraries (used by Gnome, originating from the GIMP work IIRC). I have not met anyone in some years using *any* version of Linux that did not have at least qt or gtk, in most cases both,

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-06 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: Personally, I have a clear preference for kde, so the qt interface is fine by me! ... I do to. They have a 3.14 package for Cygwin. But I've just read that a new version of KDE came out May31,06 3.53? so 3.14 is too old. Also they are going to make a native port using Qt4

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: I am trying to get far enough up the learning curve with LyX that I can feel good about creating style files. Then, I intend to do a style file for DITA--because I believe that LyX is, potentially, a far better tech writing solution than anything else out there at the

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread David Neeley
Yes, this is a topic I have been interested in for some years. Creating documentation as a specialty seems an ideal use for LyX--at least, as it may become in future. One notion that becomes very important in document creation, updating, and management in general is the notion of chunking into

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: I delayed turning to LyX for several years, since for a time it appeared to the casual observer to be somewhat of a dying application. An aborted Klyx (kde specific) version, for example, did not appear to be a sign of progress. http://www.lyx.org/about/klyx.php While

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: I am trying to get far enough up the learning curve with LyX that I can feel good about creating style files. Then, I intend to do a style file for DITA--because I believe that LyX is, potentially, a far better tech writing solution than anything else out there at the

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread David Neeley
Yes, this is a topic I have been interested in for some years. Creating documentation as a specialty seems an ideal use for LyX--at least, as it may become in future. One notion that becomes very important in document creation, updating, and management in general is the notion of chunking into

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: I delayed turning to LyX for several years, since for a time it appeared to the casual observer to be somewhat of a dying application. An aborted Klyx (kde specific) version, for example, did not appear to be a sign of progress. http://www.lyx.org/about/klyx.php While

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: I am trying to get far enough up the learning curve with LyX that I can feel good about creating style files. Then, I intend to do a style file for DITA--because I believe that LyX is, potentially, a far better tech writing solution than anything else out there at the

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread David Neeley
Yes, this is a topic I have been interested in for some years. Creating documentation as a specialty seems an ideal use for LyX--at least, as it may become in future. One notion that becomes very important in document creation, updating, and management in general is the notion of "chunking" into

Re: Installing LyX 1.3.7 on Windows 98 - DITA detour

2006-06-05 Thread Stephen Harris
David Neeley wrote: I delayed turning to LyX for several years, since for a time it appeared to the casual observer to be somewhat of a dying application. An aborted "Klyx" (kde specific) version, for example, did not appear to be a sign of progress. http://www.lyx.org/about/klyx.php