On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 05:34:25PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> On another note, in my upgrading quest, something trashed TeTeX-4 as I
> was attempting to switch it to glibc. I ended up downloading the -9
> snapshot, and that fixed my problems and solved many others as well. The
> texmf.cnf is much smarter about pointing to local and per user tex
> directories so it found the stuff in /usr/local/share/lyx/tex and
> /home/garst/.lyx/tex. du on /usr/local/teTeX showed about 83Mb compared
> to 43 with teTeX-4, and LyX seems much faster with font generation.
Yeah, but another 40 meg? Sigh. I was thinking about putting Linux on my old
Mac 6100... but the hard drive is only 500 meg, and my wife still needs to use
word...
> Now I ask, if a newcomer to Linux installs a LaTeX pkg and ghostscript,
> and gets WP8,
> then why wouldn't they try go for the tiny extra space required by LyX?
Because they would just use WP8?
> I'll bet that Amir's mom will prefer LyX.
Wow. My mom's getting really famous.
> HTML2LyX and LyX2HTML would be nice :)
I believe that's what Jose is working on, but you need sgmltools for that,
which means you need python 1.5...
-Amir
