On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 06:49:03 PM Charlie wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:57:05 +0200 "Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de" > > suggested this: > >It's been a real pleasure to work with all of the involved people. > >:) > > You don't know me and sadly I don't know you or the role you've > played in Debian and LyX. However, there's no doubt that you > haven't received enough thanks and appreciation over the time you > and everyone who works/ed on the Debian version of LyX. So please > allow me to thank you now. > > I'm just a user, but use Lyx for just about everything to do with > word processing and can only say I love it. Every morning I fire > up my computer, I fire up LyX and marvel at its magic.
I second that. LyX is probably the second most important software in my business. I use Ubuntu rather than Debian, but I owe all distro packagers a huge debt of gratitude. > > I freely admit that if I had to pay for such a great program I > couldn't afford it, and if I could afford it, would probably have > been restricted by and stayed with a more expensive and in my > opinion lesser quality program for the purpose. You're not kidding. I once began designing a LyX alternative because at the time I was mad at LyX. Based on VimOutliner, the alternative wouldn't have been as powerful as LyX, and would have presented me with substantial technical challenges. I could have accomplished the alternative, but there's NO WAY I could code up a LyX workalike. So a big ThankYou goes out to the LyX developers and the implementers who get it into distros. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
