On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Connie Neal wrote:

> There is also a kde version.
> The regular version and the kde version are being developed separately
> with the hope of eventually merging.

   Are you sure of this?  Mathias Ettrich, who is the principal author of
Lyx, is also the creater of KDE.  Klyx looks just like another program
ported for qt/kde.

> 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.

   If you want to know where Mathias got the idea for this, fire up Emacs
and do
   M-x standard-display-european
   M-x iso-accents-mode
and it is shockingly the same.

   Adam.

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