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Re: LyX (Was: Why choice Liunx and Not for Win95 [sic])

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From: David L. Johnson
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 00:00
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Sami Lempinen wrote:
> 
> A Shelton (s9406182@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
> 
> : (ps. Anyone out there got Lyx running?, any good?)
> 
> Yep, I've run LyX for a while, and going is good. It is reasonably fast (at
> least compared to idoc...) and does a good job as a GUI front end to LaTeX.
> What is particularly good is that it employs this LaTeX-like semantic markup,
> rather than a layout-oriented one. It is not exactly SGML but anyway...
> 
> I've got one problem though; I wonder if it is common or is my native char set
> (Finnish) and keymapping messing things up. The Backspace key has exactly the
> same effect as the Del key, that is, deleting the next character. This is
> a bit annoying.

There has been some discussion of that.  Mail me and I will send you a
LyX file that can help you.  It's basically a question of your .Xmodmap
file, not LyX itself.  
> 
> Furthermore, I have not been able to set dvi500 as the default printing

Perhaps the newer version has that fixed.  At any rate it is a known
bug.  Get the most recent one from my homepage (0.7p4) and see if that
works; if not, the next one will.

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From: "David L. Johnson" <dlj0@lehigh.edu>
Subject: Re: LyX (Was: Why choice Liunx and Not for Win95 [sic])
Date: 1995/11/04
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