>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Simon> On Thu, 03 Dec 1998, Preston Landers wrote:
>> since 4.2 for DOS. By the way, to preempt the crazed TeX
>> zealot contingent, yes I do know [La]TeX is very powerful, and
>> I use XEmacs daily to write code, but sometimes I just need to
>> fire off a nicely formatted, spellchecked letter or paper and I
>> like word processors.
Simon> Have you tried LyX? Looks like a word processor, has a
Simon> spell checker, internal file format is LaTeX, but you never
Simon> need to deal with it directly. You can export file as
Simon> LaTeX, DVI, Postscript or Ascii. Won't read Word files
Simon> though, but that seems to be it's only shortcoming.
I am impressed with lyx. It will easily do anything from letters to books.
It provides an almost "wysiwyg" view.
The final document postscript can be previewed in ghostview before printing.
The latest version of lyx (lyx-1.0.0pre2.tar.gz 1840Kb) is at:
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx
Note: this is considered a developement version.
There is also a kde version.
The regular version and the kde version are being developed separately
with the hope of eventually merging.
Lyx supports multiple languages, french, spanish, german and brazilian portugese
as well as turkish, russian, etc. It supports language specific keyboards.
and will allow switching from a primary to a secondary keyboard.
It will do accents easily.
With Layout - Document - Languaguage set to American
Options - Keyboard - Primary set to american
Options - Keyboard - Character set iso8859-1
I can type an accented e by hitting the accent and then the e.
And use the accent key in an unaccented manner by hitting it twice
i.e. for possessives.
It will also do mathematical typesetting.
Connie
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