Am 08.10.01 12:40:40, schrieb Renaud MICHEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >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. > I installed cygwin/XFree86 last week. I think it is not possible but perhaps i have to change some settings. With XWIN32 you can copy text from a WIN32 application and past it with the middle mouse key in Lyx.
Jörg
