"Dr. Louis A. Turk" wrote: > > I am seriously considering installing Lyx on my Windows 2000 machine to > replace Notabene and Pagemaker, provided Lyx can do some things I need done > which NB and PM cannot seem to do: > > 1. Brochures on legal size paper, landscape orientation, 8 snaking columns > (4 on each side) with citations and footnotes at the bottom of each column, > and headers above each column except the first one.
without special packages not possible. you can write single pages for each column and put them together with postscript commands. but you can try minipages for each column, maybe be a possible way. > 2. Turabian style manual, with extensive modifications of spacing, type > styles, notes format, etc., for self-publishing of books. > > 3. Mixed Greek, Hebrew, and English text in most of the above mentioned > documents. > > 4. Easy conversion of the above documents to PDF. > > 5. I want to be able to set up templates so that I can concentrate on > writing instead of formatting. > > Is all this possible with Lyx? all other is possible with lyx. > Is there perhaps a pdf document created from Lyx that would illustrate some > pages like or similar to those described above? lyx is a frontend to latex, so that you can take any pdf-doc which was produced with tex/latex. > 6. Is MikTeX or fpTeX the best Win32 port of LaTeX? > > 7. Will XFree86 allow me to cut and paste between Lyx and Win32 > programs? How does it compare to Starnet's XWin32 x-server? have a look at the homepage of Klaus Hentschel, who gives support for the win-version of lyx. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
