On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JOHN CULLETON wrote: > > on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of > > Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack > > (12) then I may give it a try again.
1.3.7? Being able to update lyx2lyx at the click of a button would be handy though. > > There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that > > compels them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are > > not widely available. > > Please stop this non sense. > > > Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive > > nuisances. True, I can install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4 > > which uses Qt4. But Koffice and a host of other things don't work > > with KDE 4. Besides, I don't like Debian. > > Back in the days I was using Slackware, I used to compile everything. If > you are not able to compile Qt and LyX, pay someone to do it for you and > stop complaining about people developing those programs for *FREE*. Better yet, write a program that lets people compile arbitrary programs at the click of button. See ebuild, sinstall and gconfigure for a starting point. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_prefixed_portage_(in_development) > > John Culleton TeX since 1995. > > Just stay with TeX and stop annoying us. He can't. He's been infected with a virus ;) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
