>>>>> "Asger" == Asger Kunuk Ottar Alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Asger, Asger> Also, it seems there is substantial interest in a GTK front-end Asger> in the wild. See for instance this recent review: Asger> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/15/1345248 Asger> and the associated comments. Interesting. Asger> I'm not sure why, but it seems that the toolkit is very Asger> important to people. If nothing else, it seems the decision to Asger> go multi-toolkit was a popular one. Yes. Asger> For extra bonus points, the GTK port is the direct route to a Asger> true native widget Windows port as well, given that Wimp has Asger> been merged into the GTK development branch. Note that the gpl qt/win port is now good enough to compile LyX (I guess you saw the recent message from Ruurd). Asger> And then we would get the usual complains: The need for Asger> round-trip is important to people. I seem to remember that the Asger> user guide more or less round-tripped perfectly? Yes, in the lyx->latex->lyx direction. Of course, people would like to have latex->lyx->latex, and this may be close to impossible. Asger> And maybe import/export from/to Scribus format. There is a spec Asger> at Asger> http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=scribusfileformat&page=scribusfileformat Hmm, scribus is a desktop publishing software, right? I guess that's quite orthogonal to LyX, and I am not sure what kind of import/export could be done. JMarc
