Hello Lyx-Devel, One of my tasks here at Lancaster is to look after the TeX/MF installtion on the University's computers. Lancaster has a number of users of TeX/LaTeX, many are happy with the UNIX environment and we have a version of LyX on our UNIX platform. Quite a number of the postgrads in some departments however, do a large amount of work on our PC network under NT and are thus currently using the Scientific Word package, which they brought into, as a GUI FE for LaTeX. There would be benefits to be gained if users on both NT and UNIX platforms were able to use the same software, ie LyX. Although we have eXceed and I tried the Cygwin port of LyX, I guess the vast majority (and their supervisors!) would prefer to use a "true" NT package as opposed to a package running within a package (not my choice, so dont blame me). OK, I have had some experience of using the wxWindows cross-platform toolkit and was wondering what, if any, the view was at LyX.org about the pros-and-cons and indeed, possibilities, of a port using this GUI toolkit on top of the LyX "engine", as I notice from your web pages that this is now divorced from the GUI. Given that a Cygwin port of LyX does exist, albeit, I note, the 1.0 series rather than your current 1.1 editions, and that wxWindows compiles under Cygwin, I would like to think that a port to use this toolkit for the GUI might then allow a "native" NT version of LyX to be produced. I thought I would try and get some thoughts from you before looking any further into this possible line of development. As usual with this type of message, I offer apologies if this topic has already been "done to death" on your list. Might it also be possible to subscribe to recieve the list. -- Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Kevin M. Buckley e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * Systems Administrator * * Computer Centre * * Lancaster University Voice: +44 (0) 1524 5 93718 * * LANCASTER. LA1 4YW Fax : +44 (0) 1524 5 25113 * * England. * * * * My PC runs Linux/GNU, you still computing the Bill Gate$' way ? * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
