From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 14:02:43 CEST
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:28:25PM -0500, Alfie Costa nicely wrote:
>
> It has now been run, and LyX works. I think it looks good, but not knowing
> much about TEX, LaTEX or LyX is a handicap, as far as fully appreciating the
> package goes.
I never worked really in TeX. I only appreciated the very high quality
of typesetting result. Finally, checking again a lot of articles copy
I have on mathematical and physical subject, I discovered they are all
in TeX. I found also some modern entire book, in TeX. For example, the
wonderfull:
I. Vardi "Computational Recreations in Mathematica"
where "Mathematica" is the famous software from Wolfram Inc.
The language itself, LaTex, is very powerful, but to put single
a blank line in the text is pratically not possibile (a paradox?).
This language constrain a style; very different from MS-Word, where
any writer create own style. Using TeX you have to point only on
CONTENTS, because LOOK is up to software. This is the phylosophy.
The advantage is: scientific papers looks strictly the same; you
> So I read some of the built-in help, which is non-mu and less
> interesting to read.
Lyx documentations reflect the very insufficient interest in
documentations, pertinent to all developers!
>
> According to Knuth, the name 'TEX' isn't derived from the English 'Tee Eeh
> Eks', but the Greek 'Tau Epsilon Chi', and is therefore pronounced 'Tech' as in
> technical, and not like the first syllable of 'Texas'. Knuth reviews the early
Yes. We pronounce "tek", as in techical.
>
> The text itself, (of the LyX display, not the text of Mr. Knuth), or rather the
> typeface, looks jaggy in this install; if it matters, I'm running a high-color
> X-server, (XF86_SVGA), not the 16-color VGA one.
It's true: the big text looks very jaggy, also in my Debian and in recent
release of Lyx. This is a free software, and I do not feel to ask anymore.
>
> Note, for anyone else who is absent-minded and tries installing TEX.tgz over mu
> 7.x: remember to type the full pathname of the TEX 'prolog' file, or else the
> wrong 'prolog' might run, and none of the TEX setup will really happen.
>
eh-eh! There is a lot of "prolog" around! muLinux start the first in
the path.
Michele
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