Philip A. Viton wrote: > For me, the disappointment was that the placement of big operators > like \sum and \int hasn't been fixed (can anyone confirm this?). > Presumably this is because Ruurd is still using the same edition of > Qt, and it's a Qt, not really a lyx, problem.
That is correct. Ruurd uses Qt 2.3.x to build these ports because that is the most recent version of the Qt library for Win32 released under the GPL. Unfortunately, it's buggy. LyX's licence will allow the compiled lyx code to be linked against a non-free (in the GPL sense) library, so the limitation isn't legal, but rather financial. If some kind soul were to donate a Qt commercial licence to lyx, then we'd probably feel honor bound to provide a Win32 lyx executable linked against it. Note, I say "probably" here. The above statement is my own personal take on things. It is not 'official' LyX policy and I don't want you to think I am speaking for any of the other developers when I make it. Alternatively, of course, someone might put in the grunt work and write a frontend that uses a GPL-ed GUI library that will run on Win32. Huang Ying has started writing a GTK-based frontend in the 1.4.x tree and, indeed, has finished the main LyX-screen. All that remains are the 40+ dialogs... -- Angus
