Le Samedi 6 Octobre 2001 18:15, vous avez écrit : > Hi Lyx experts, > > 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.
Size and orientation are no problem, columns can be done with LaTeX, for the citation and footnotes I don't know, perhaps some specific LaTeX package can do things like this > 2. Turabian style manual, with extensive modifications of spacing, type > styles, notes format, etc., for self-publishing of books. don't understand what you want. > 3. Mixed Greek, Hebrew, and English text in most of the above mentioned > documents. Yes, this is possible (at least with LaTeX) > 4. Easy conversion of the above documents to PDF. LyX can do pdf directly with pdftex or ps2pdf, pdftex is surely avaible on win2k, for ps2pdf I don't know. > 5. I want to be able to set up templates so that I can concentrate on > writing instead of formatting. Hey, this is exactly what LaTeX (and LyX) is for. > Is all this possible with Lyx? > > Is there perhaps a pdf document created from Lyx that would illustrate some > pages like or similar to those described above? > > 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? Never tried XFree86 on a non-unix system, but I would be surprised if it was possible. -- Mais ici vous êtes sur Cybercâble, l'endroit où tout est possible, sauf le normal. -+- BP in NPC : Chez Cybercâble, c'est la grosse déconne...xion -+- Renaud MICHEL
