Re: lyx file format ?

2004-08-24 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 02:49, Gerard Briscoe wrote: > Dear all, > > I am looking to create a latex editor which works similarly to how > dreamweaver works for HTML, where you can edit both the latex markup > language and the output in a split pane window. > > I came across Lyx, and I am very cur

Re: Asger :)

2004-08-24 Thread Kuba Ober
On poniedziaƅek 23 sierpieƅ 2004 02:29 pm, Asger Kunuk Ottar Alstrup wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > PS: For some reason I sorely missed Asger this year. > > I have absolutely no clue why you would bring that up in such a > discussion. > > Regards, > Asger (who seems to try t

Re: lyx file format ?

2004-08-24 Thread Kuba Ober
> I came across Lyx, and I am very curios to know why the 'lyx' file > format is not 'tex'. First of all, because LyX isn't meant to be bound to TeX in any special way. It's a general, high-level editor that supports some constructs that are not gracefully supported by the tex format, at least n

Re: lyx file format ?

2004-08-24 Thread Asger Kunuk Ottar Alstrup
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Gerard Briscoe wrote: > Are there serious problems with using a 'tex' file format, which you do > export too, limitations which would make the LyX GUI hard to code ? LyX has it's own format, because: - besides LaTeX, LyX can also author SGML, XML, HTML, ASCII, and other fo

Re: lyx file format ?

2004-08-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Gerard Briscoe wrote: > Dear all, > > I am looking to create a latex editor which works similarly to how > dreamweaver works for HTML, where you can edit both the latex markup > language and the output in a split pane window. > > I came across Lyx, and I am very curios to know why the 'lyx' file

lyx file format ?

2004-08-24 Thread Gerard Briscoe
Dear all, I am looking to create a latex editor which works similarly to how dreamweaver works for HTML, where you can edit both the latex markup language and the output in a split pane window. I came across Lyx, and I am very curios to know why the 'lyx' file format is not 'tex'. I have looked