Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Uwe wrote something about how the original name of the application was something like 'Lyrix', which I think was a play on 'lyrics'. I can't confirm this personally however. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX History * Matthias Ettrich started developing a share

Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe wrote something about how the original name of the application was something like 'Lyrix', which I think was a play on 'lyrics'. I can't confirm this personally however. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX History * Matthias Ettrich started developing a shareware program calle

Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: pol wrote: Out of curiosity, should Lyx be pronounced 'lyk', as in TEX? What is the origin of the name? Apparently not, although I'm not sure even that is unanimous: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation. Since it's written in C++, famous for ad

Re: pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
pol wrote: Out of curiosity, should Lyx be pronounced 'lyk', as in TEX? What is the origin of the name? Apparently not, although I'm not sure even that is unanimous: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation. Since it's written in C++, famous for adventures in memory pointers, I suppose "leaks

pronuciation

2007-09-12 Thread pol
Out of curiosity, should Lyx be pronounced 'lyk', as in TEX? What is the origin of the name? thank you -- Pol