Lyx (was: [ale] Cross-Platform Document Publishing)

[Jim Philips]

My 
apologies after reading Dow's post more closely. I shouldn't try heavy reading 
right after lunch ;-)

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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Jim Philips Sent: 
  Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:07 PMTo: 
  'ale at ale.org'Subject: RE: Lyx (was: [ale] Cross-Platform Document 
  Publishing)
  The request was to be able to create and edit cross-platform 
  as well. To my knowledge, Adobe only makes an Acrobat reader for Linux. So, 
  the questions is this: Can you create pdf's on a Linux box? 
  -----Original Message----- From: Dow 
  Hurst [<A 
  href="mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu">mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu] 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 12:24 PM <FONT 
  size=2>To: Jeff Hubbs; ale at ale.org Subject: Re: Lyx 
  (was: [ale] Cross-Platform Document Publishing) 
  I've used xpdf or some such animal to view PDFs under Linux 
  with no problem.  SGI is providing auto generated 
  quotes for their sales reps using the PDF 
  format.  I really like that since too many MSWord docs <FONT 
  size=2>come my way when I am on an SGI or Linux machine.  
  Ghostscripts postscript to pdf converter worked fine 
  for me.  Have you tried that? Dow 
  Jeff Hubbs wrote: > 
  > > PDF will work the best at preserving 
  graphics, appearance and > > print aspects and 
  it works on most all platforms/distros > 
  > I don't disagree, but where is Adobe Acrobat for 
  Linux?  Reading the > documents cross-platform 
  is as important to me as being able to create and > 
  edit them cross-platform. > <FONT 
  size=2>> In the course of following up on the suggestion re Docbook, I came 
  across > Lyx and I'm finding it fascinating.  
  Does anyone here know Lyx very well?  I > 
  could use some help creating a template. > 
  > - Jeff >