On Tuesday 28 May 2002 20:17, Kevin Bullock wrote: > (Also a lot more expensive. I keep toying with the idea of writing a > free (GUI) page layout program that uses TeX for a backend.) On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 08:57:30PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > Have you considered contributing to LyX? Some other information about LyX. You were close when you quoted "WYMIWYG" (What You Mean Is What You Get). The LyX website quotes: "LyX is the first WYSIWYM document processor". (What You See Is What You Mean) I'm cutting hairs here, but I thought you may want to know. You can read up more about LyX from their website[1]. A note to those who might be license-wary. LyX is licensed under a modified GPL because it links it's binaries against the XForms library. This library is not licensed under a Free Software license, rather a typical shareware/freeware license that limits "free" use to noncommercial or personal entities. I remember there was talk about replacing the XForms GUI with another toolkit, but I haven't been following the development for a while. Another word processor to consider is AbiWord[2]. It's actually quite useful, and a suitable replacement for WYSIWYG editors like M$ Word. You can even export your document to different formats, such as DocBook XML, LaTeX, HTML, XHTML, RTF, etc. Another cool feature of AbiWord is its use of "plugins"[3]. If you haven't already, check it out. References ---------- 1. http://www.lyx.org 2. http://www.abisource.com 3. http://www.abisource.com/download/plugins.phtml -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020531/acc1ba53/attachment.pgp