On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:55:56AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: > > That is something to address then for a native Windows port to work out. > > I'd like to produce a native LyX binary with as few unix dependencies as > > possible. > > > > Further out, I'd even like to kick out LaTeX, and put some > > other backend in instead to reduce the footprint.
Okay, now that's just plain weird. (La)TeX has been producing decent output for 2 decades. It *still* beats the undies off of any Micro$oft product. Its only problem is that its power comes at a price. LyX drops that price greatly. Always has, too. I've been looking at this whole LyX-on-Windows thingy as a way of facilitating greater ease-of-use of (La)TeX on Windows, not as a way of bypassing it. Why reinvent the wheel?!? Or to paraphrase Jamie Zawinsky: That's like banging two rocks together and being proud that you've rederived fire from first principles. It's a solved problem, and not worth revisiting. -- John Weiss
