On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:28:10PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote:
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> > > Did I make my point? I really would love to propose
> > > LyX to my wife, instead of that damned StarOffice,
> > > but I just can't.
> Sure you can. Courage.
> > Not YET, that is. I have the same problem... had to
> > propose WP8 to my wife instead of LyX. The main problem
> > for her would be incompatibility with Word formats.
> >
> Wv
I know, I know...set it up as a MIME handler. Whenever my
wife clicks on a Word attachment, the hard disk rumbles a bit
and up comes the document in GhostView... she hasn't at all
been surprised, is quite happy reading and printing it (in 99%
of cases, that's all she has to do) and is blissfully unaware
precisely what the software is or that I am the "deputy maintainer"
responsible for LaTeX functionality in WvWare :-)
But actually converting and importing a doc into LyX tends
to be a nontrivial operation still.
Perhaps I should have gone for LyX after all. She is cursing
WP8 (which isn't exactly free of bugs and looks no prettier
than LyX -- visual appearance is important for her), but then
she was cursing Win3.11 and MSWord 6.0 also at the time. And I
was her appointed problem attachment opener -- still am.
Another problem is that as an interpreter she needs tables (word
lists) that can be sorted by one column. WP8 has that, LyX not.
I have been thinking of a standalone tcl/tk thingie for this...
but would it be hard to add to the LyX table code?
I feel that it is just a case of severe inertia. Now that I have
WP8 for her, I'm gonna stick with it. The devil you know...
> Garst
>
Martin
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Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Helsinki University of Technology
Department of Surveying
P.O. Box 1200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland
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