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Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:23:12 -0500
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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


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