X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Enrico Forestieri Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <566vd7hfmi3j980ic4m64d7bv91b5qm6uh@4ax.com> <20111207173808.GA25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111207180653.GB25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <4EE0D2F3.1090606@cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Ken Brown writes: > > I don't use lyx (though I use tex extensively), so maybe there's > something I don't understand. But is it really necessary for Cygwin's > lyx to support a native Windows tex? Necessary? No. Useful? Yes. > Wouldn't it be more reasonable for > users of a native Windows tex to use a native Windows lyx? Until recently, the only Cygwin TeX engine was teTeX, which does not support XeTeX. If you wanted a Cygwin version of lyx, you could not have used XeTeX, unless you used MikTeX, for example. -- Enrico -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple