[vox-tech] beginning latex

Rod Roark vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:45:03 -0800


On Wednesday 27 November 2002 11:13 pm, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
> LyX seems a little unstable to me. The control widgets behave somewhat
> strangely and the window doesn't handle resizing properly.
> I'm not sure I can trust it to not crash on me mid-brilliant-thought :)

I have not seen problems like that.  But there are some
recent (and perhaps unstable) ports to Qt and GTK... perhaps
you are using one of those?  The stable stuff uses XForms.

> Besides, it doesn't have vi key bindings.

Fine, be that way.  Happy reading!  :-P

Cheers,

-- Rod

> -Gabe
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:21:51PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote:
> > Non-latex-gurus (like me) might like LyX (www.lyx.org).
> > Really cool.  You might be able to get the job done without
> > having to learn much.  :-)