http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/13/1925238 :
"...One solution to this is to simply pair up LaTeX with version control
software (such as Subversion) to allow multiple collaborators to work on the
same document at one time. But adding Subversion to the mix only seems to
increase the
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 10:51:36 Christian Ridderström wrote:
> One thing I thought about as an interesting question is if it's true that
> LyX is _only_ a frontend for LaTeX. Do we support or plan to support
> different backends than LaTeX?
There is always a tension between being generalist and
Christian Ridderström wrote:
Hi, I saw the following on Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201
"For many years I have been using LaTeX to compose scientific
documents, but truly I am getting tired of its complexity. You
have to install new pac
Hi, I saw the following on Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201
"For many years I have been using LaTeX to compose scientific
documents, but truly I am getting tired of its complexity. You
have to install new packages fo
Hello
See http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/11/19/1933214.shtml
Lyx seems to be a good example (the original author have droped it and
started a miserable little desktop interface project (c; )
Any developper post its story ?
-- Emmanuel
|\ _,,,---,,_ Emman
Here is a discussion which is very relevant to what we are trying to
achieve:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/09/26/1550254&mode=thread&threshold=2
The answer seems to be: we are on the right track.
JMarc
> OK. I'm sending it in. This means martin doesn't have to!
Thanks Amir. I was away yesterday afternoon (in Europe :-)
I intend to send your text to a subset of my earlier mailing list too.
Martin
PS. I saw that Ivo Timmermans announced 1.0.1 to freshmeat, with an updated
text. Good work Ivo!
Submitted. Hope they like it; it could get us another 1 hits or so
tomorrow. (No, I have no idea how many of those will translate into
downloads, or new users, or (can we dare hope) new devvies...)
-Amir
OK. I'm sending it in. This means martin doesn't have to!
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:08:58AM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
>
> I vote that you do it NOW! 1.0.1 is out, and we don't want to be late.
>
> Just send the FUD version. Anything is better than "frontend for dummies".
>
> Later
> Well, I doubt that anyone will send in to slashdot a 1.0.1 announcement.
> And they wouldn't post it anyway. But they might post one that mentions FUD
> and open source word processing.
>
> I vote for martin to do it since he's our official press guru. Martin?
ell, I doubt that anyone will send in to slashdot a 1.0.1 announcement.
And they wouldn't post it anyway. But they might post one that mentions FUD
and open source word processing.
I vote for martin to do it since he's our official press guru. Martin?
-Amir
> The LyX Development team is pleased to obliterate the FUD which claims
> there's no open source word processor! Here (www.lyx.org) is LyX 1.0.1, a
> full-featured document processor, which exports latex for printing.
> The first line will make it good slashdot material. "
ation is underway. Latex may be used within LyX
documents, and LyX is now capable of importing latex files. But even better,
LyX can be used by your non-LaTeX-aware relatives and friends!
-
(The tutorial "revision" was about a 50 line patch, not worth mentioning.)
The first line wil
Alan added,
>The one sentence that will be quoted should include the words:
> Literate Programming
Just off the cuff
The LyX Development team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1, a
full-featured word and document processor, which exports latex for
printing. Additionally, latex may be us
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Amir Karger wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 12:52:14PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> >
> > Just a stray thought.
> >
> > Should we make contact with slashdot *before* the actual release, to
> > try and get an actual announcemen
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 12:52:14PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> Just a stray thought.
>
> Should we make contact with slashdot *before* the actual release, to
> try and get an actual announcement instead of being lumped in with the
> "quickies" as a
Just a stray thought.
Should we make contact with slashdot *before* the actual release, to
try and get an actual announcement instead of being lumped in with the
"quickies" as a "latex front end" again?
Also, they're off in san jose for the linux conference at the moment
rick
--
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 03:38:55PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote:
> Our failure to promote LyX as a first-rate *word processor* has led the
> Slashdot management to yawn. "Just that LaTeX front-end again. Old news".
>
You may be right, as they did have a link for the n
Our failure to promote LyX as a first-rate *word processor* has led the
Slashdot management to yawn. "Just that LaTeX front-end again. Old news".
Best regards
--
Larry S. Marso
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Paul Seelig wrote:
> Check out "http://linuxtoday.com/". :-)
Netscape says: Document contains no data.
Alejandro
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Larry S. Marso wrote:
> It's February 2nd, approaching midnight. No mention of LyX at
> slashdot or freshmeat.
>
Check out "http://linuxtoday.com/". :-)
It's February 2nd, approaching midnight. No mention of LyX at slashdot or
freshmeat.
Best regards
--
Larry S. Marso
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*Richard E Hawkins Esq writes:
| It just occurred to me . . . we could test how well the server
| survivies the slashdot effect by posting there that the license has
| been clarified as non-GPL . . .
What server?
www.lyx.org? hmm, hopefully most of the www bashers will be
rejected
It just occurred to me . . . we could test how well the server
survivies the slashdot effect by posting there that the license has
been clarified as non-GPL . . .
rick, who isn't sure that this is a good idea
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