On Friday 05 January 2007 16:03, yuri wrote:
> On 05/01/07, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > On Friday 05 January 2007 14:49, you wrote:
> > > I learnt a bit more about the options of emerge, but still
> > > failing to get Lyx installed.
> > > I'll post a "please help" messege after I've had time to document
> > > the exact problem and I have time to process all the helpfull
> > > replies :-)
> >
> > I'd be only too happy to make a visit to the country sometime to
> > help
>
> I'll be in touch.
I look forward to the outing.
> > you get LyX to go. For me it was just an 'emerge lyx' and it all
> > just worked.
>
> Not for me.
What happened?
> > Also Scribus is a _very_ slick application now-a-days. It offers
> > just the deal for setting up documents which have a limited number
> > of pages which require GUI interaction with the user to get things
> > looking just right.
>
> I emerged scribus a few days ago after Her Gawjussness asked "can we
> get Publisher?" and she has been teaching herself how to use it.
> Struggles and triumphs.
Much the same for me, certainly at the beginning.
> Most "interesting" was when she told Scribus "I wanna edit that pic"
> and Scribus said "Fine. I'll just launch GIMP for you." So she's had
> a crack at GIMP too.
If she finds The GIMP to much of a change from what she is used to, or
needs to achieve a better quality than that provided by the somewhat
limited 8 bits per pixel offered by the GIMP, you can change the
default image editor by saying GIMP="krita" instead of GIMP="gimp" in
the appropriate run conditions file in your ${HOME}/.scribus/
directory.
