Re: LyX without XForms?

2000-05-30 Thread Richard Stallman
You are welcome to help to speed up this process ;-) I can't help personally, since I don't even have time to work on Emacs any more. But you're welcome to mail a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to recruit people to help make LyX not need XForms, and the moderator can also forward the request t

Re: LyX without XForms?

2000-05-30 Thread Richard Stallman
GUI independence is a big part of what the LyX team is planning. That is good news. Once you have this working, I suggest you drop the support for XForms. XForms is not all that widely used, so I doubt anyone will desperately yearn for the screen appearance of XForms and be unhappy with GTK

LyX without XForms?

2000-05-29 Thread Richard Stallman
LyX could be a useful part of a free operating system if only it could run without XForms. Is there any chance you could modify it to use a free toolkit--perhaps GTK? I know that is probably not an easy job. But LyX will probably be around for years, and in the fullness of time, this will be a