From: hjpsmith AT earthlink DOT net (Henry J. P. Smith) Subject: LyX and Xforms 6 Nov 1997 18:56:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19971106182231.0088d550.cygnus.gnu-win32@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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 and for 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 ) 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, 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" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".