Am Wednesday, 21. August 2013, 18:53:58 schrieb stefano franchi: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Wolfgang Keller <felip...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the past 15 years or so. > > > > The first public LyX version was when? Can't have been much longer > > than 10 years ago. > > Way earlier than that. I switched to Lyx after I completed my > dissertation (which I wrote in Framemaker, on a NeXt cube. Boy am I > old!). I defended in 1997... > > Cheers, > > Stefano
The history of LyX This first description of the history of LyX was taken from LyX's wikipedia entry: Wikipedia:LyX Matthias Ettrich started developing the shareware programm Lyrix in 1995(?). Soon after this it was announced on USENET [wikipedia.org] where it received great attention during the subsequent years. Shortly after the initial release Lyrix was renamed to Lyx due to a name- clash with some commercial software. In this course it was also GPL'd, which opened the project to the open-source community. Version 1.0.0 of the software was released in 1999. by the way, in Tübingen, my home town Wolfgang
