Can anyone give me detailed info on how to install lyx (including xforms and xpm), either on solaris or cygwin running on a Windows PC. I've been trying to do the latter myself, but haven't been able to get it working because I haven't been able to install xforms or xpm correctly so lyx can't find them. I asked our unix computer supoprt person if he could try installing it on our solaris unix system, but he came back to me saying he hadn't been able to get the correct version of xforms for it, so it was going to take him much too long to try to figure it out...
I'm really desperate to try out lyx. I can use latex myself, but now have the problem of having to prepare documents jointly with people who don't know latex. I've been having to use Word but have been getting increasingly frustrated with its limitations and annoyances, particularly for numbering, equations and eps figures. If lyx is as easy to use as the webpage seems to say it is, it could be the answer to our problems; if I can convince the non-latex people to give it a go, since they don't need to know any latex to use it! But I need to be able to install it first! Can any help? Alison.
