Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 May 1996 14:20:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Tracy R. Reed" <> | Subject | LyX: A great word processor/Was Re: Linux logo |
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On Sun, 5 May 1996, Speed Racer wrote:
> as the only way to get certain things done (word processing et al.) and > win95/MSWord is certainly cheaper than any Unix + Framemaker or whatever > else. (okay, maybe the win95 platform isn't as stable, but i'll take a
Actually, I think far too many people are overlooking LyX. LyX is an excellent word processor/text formatter. It is implemented as a front end to LaTeX so you get absolutely beautiful typeset documents from your word processor. It all looks much nicer than the output from M$ Word. I'm hoping the LyX team will get it in a distribution soon. I'm tired of people saying there is no good word processor for Linux. I've written several papers in LyX and it's worked beautifully. The latest beta version even has a formula editor in it to take advantage of LaTeX's excellent mathematical typesetting ability. <evangelist> I was hesitant to throw out my windows partition for a long time because I needed some way to do papers. I was quite happy to retrieve that disk space and throw out windoze forever. A lot of people are turned off by Linux because they cannot find a decent word processor. This is a chance to make Linux look even more attractive and lure people away from the evil that is MS. </evangelist>
Authors page: http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~ettrich/
Screenshot: http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~ettrich/shot1.html
Another LyX page: http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html
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