On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:28:02PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> The LyX Development Team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1 and refute the claim
> that there is no open source word processor! Here (www.lyx.org) is a full
//<- "no first rate open source word processor"
> featured document processor which exports LaTeX for hard copy.
//<- it's odd to say this. We've never said this before
and, in fact, LyX will export dvi or postcript
(or bloody anything else you hack together in
custom export. Better to stick to the language
describing the open source LaTeX typesetting
system as the "industrial class typesetting
engine used by LyX"
> Much more than
> just a "GUI front end for LaTeX"
//<- People have dissmissed LyX in prior years with
exactly this language. Let's not remind them of that.
> , LyX now also supports literate programming.
> A phenomenal math editor, figures, tables... LyX menus, and on-line docs
> partly, have been translated to over a dozen languages. LyX allows embedded
> LaTeX code and imports existing LaTeX files.
> But best of all, LyX can be used
> by your non-LaTeX-aware relatives and friends!
//<- This suggests that relatives and friends, but **not
your readers**, can be unaware of LaTeX matters.
--
lsm
