LyX and Xforms
Pasa Guglielmo
gpasa@omedia.ch
Sat Nov 8 02:56:00 GMT 1997
You should try to ask the XForms group to produce a b18 binary release
as they cetainly don't want to give you the code. It probably
will compile succesfully (at least lesstif 0.81 does ! so let's hope).
Then it is only a problem of porting LyX to b18.
Henry J. P. Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I searched throught the back issues on cygnus and didn't find anything
> about either LyX or xforms. So I thought I'd ask whether anyone has any
> experience trying to bring either of these up under gnuwin32.
>> LyX is a font-end for LaTeX and from what I gather it uses xforms to
> produce a WYSIWYG like interface. The URL for LyX that I have is
> < http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html >
>> and for xforms
>> < http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms >.
>> I don't feel too confident in attempting to bring them up under GNUWIN32
> (as I am not very strong in C/C++ etc) but I am strongly tempted to give it
> a try as I and a colleague of mine have a need for LaTeX but don't
> particularly like the hassle of learning it to do all that we will probably
> need. { I know I know, tha't being kinda lazy :-) }
>> I was thinking that one could do as straight a port as possible and use a
> local X-server such as MI/X or the one I use most frequently SuperX from
> FrontierTech. (Haven't seen the latter mentioned on the list. Does anyone
> else use it? I rather like it for my purposes as it is more robust than
> MI/X and not too expensive either.)
>> xforms provides the menus and buttons etc used by LyX and it apparently
> does so via a Unix shared object librayr (.so . . . etc) AFAIK (not very
> far <g>) this sort of function would be carried out in WIN32 by a DLL. Does
> GNUWIN32 have the .so option available? I'd kinda guess not but then . . .
> If not how hard is it to change the .so file into a dll? (obviously you
> need the source but after that?)
>> Well any thoughts any one might like to add would be greatly appreciated as
> they might be save me a lot of headaches. And also if anyone has a good
> argumebnt as to why this would be a dumb project to get started on, <G> I'd
> very much like to hear them as well.
>> TIA
>> Henry
>> PS: this is a great list. I've been sort of lurking for some time and this
> is my first post. Thanks to all the earlier contributors.
>> Dr. Henry J. P. Smith President / Owner
> TPE Associates
> "Technology Physics Environment"
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Sincerely yours,
Pasa Guglielmo
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