Angus Leeming wrote:
> Last time I looked, emacs was still widely used. For some reason, it > hasn't died even after 10 years of KDE and Gnome. Maybe people use it > because they like it? Shock horror! Indeed, all the secretaries I know were using Emacs but since I showed them that vim could search regexp in registers that they could yank afterwards. They have happily switched and are busy reading the 400 pages manual ;-) Seriously, look TeXmacs. They have an Emacs-like interface and the trafic they have in a month on their user mailing list is what we have in a day. A key of LyX success is the similarity of its interface with MsWord. > >> But LyX target market is users coming from a Mac/Windows world and >> familiar with a wordprocessor. > > Where on earth do you get that statement from? The initial plan of Matthias Ettrich was to fight against MsWord 2.0 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6834 > These people have already coped with the paradigm shift that they should > help the computer to do the typesetting for them. Treat them as > intelligent beings. History is repeating (and I will not use the oft-quoted Marx proverb). In 1996, Larry Manso asked that ERT should be hidden in an inset. An intense debate started. Developers argued that people are not wimps and that they could learn.... http://www.lyx.org/news/20000315.php > Victor Hugo used to bemoan the destruction of his medieval, gothic Paris > and it's replacement with the dull uniformity of Haussmann boulevards. He > certainly didn't believe that uniformity was good for users. Well medieval architecture has a lot of uniformity contrary to what the gothic revival movement of the 19th wrongly thought. Romanticism was also generally against industry, railways, technology, etc. LyX is more in a Saint-Simonien filiation : technical progress can change the world. I tend to think that users like the clipboard to behave in a consistent way across the desktop. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
