X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EE0E470.1070506@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:23:12 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10 References: <566vd7hfmi3j980ic4m64d7bv91b5qm6uh@4ax.com> <20111207173808.GA25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111207180653.GB25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <4EE0D2F3.1090606@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 12/8/2011 10:56 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > 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. That changed a couple of years ago. TeX Live has supported Cygwin since TL2009. Ken -- 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