On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:49 PM, David L. Johnson <d...@lehigh.edu> wrote:
> > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Question: Using LyX as > your daily word processor Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:22:19 -0400 From: David > L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu> <david.john...@lehigh.edu> To: Wolfgang > Keller <felip...@gmx.net> <felip...@gmx.net> > > I just checked, and found a copy of an old webpage I used to maintain > for it. (I also used to provide binaries that had Motif statically > linked for those who did not have Motif -- LyX/LyriX was linux/unix only > at one time, and used Motif widgets). It was originally called "LyriX", > but Matthais got a letter from a lawyer about that, so he changed the name. > > The date I have on that old webpage is February, 1999. But, looking at > that file, by that time things were pretty far along. Several > developers were working on it, and it was far more advanced than the > first versions. So, the original versions must have been in the > mid-'90s, believe it or not. > > And I have been using it for all of my writing since the first versions. > > -- > > David L. Johnson > > "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by > little statesmen and philosophers and divines." > --Ralph Waldo Emerson > > Interesting stories. Here is the history wiki page (which is in need of an update from you LyX veterans before you lose your memory!): http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/History Also note that Wikipedia's LyX page [1] lists the following: LyX 0.7.0 was released on October 24, 1995. Scott [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX
