On Friday 30 May 2003 19:24, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > DA>> No, I can't. I've never written or read a single line of latex > DA>> code. The whole point of lyx's existence is to let people > DA>> harness the power of latex without knowing its syntax, using an > DA>> intuitive and powerful GUI instead. > > Speaking about LyX, today I tried to install it on my development machine. > It is RedHat 6.2 system (yes, it is so old, and no, I will not upgrade it > as long as it is possible). LyX project does not do binaries for RH6.2 (at > least not on their FTP site) and compile fails on some template inside it, > even though my compile is OK according to their README. Do you know, by > chance, how (and if) it is possible to install LyX on RH6.2? > > DA>> already there.) LyX already comes with some good classes, more > DA>> can be added for common tasks (fax, etc.). And institutions > > Here we have the difference between "it exists" and "it can be done". The > whole world of difference. Because people need it done, not possibility of > it being done.
But this is not the "it can be done, because anything can be done" case. This is something that's close to being completed, already is good enough for many users, and so we should prepare to talk about it more to these people when evangelizing linux. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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