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Article #59949Re: LyX (Was: Why choice Liunx and Not for Win95 [sic])
From: David L. Johnson
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 00:00
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. -- David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu Department of Mathematics http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html Lehigh University 14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759 Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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