On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:07:29AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:05:42 +0000 > Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > > ... > > > StartOffice 5.2 was a proprietary application, using the motif toolkit > > which had its own proprietary file formats. Has no decent support for > > bidirectional or CJK text (or other types of complex text layout). It > > ran in its own separate "desktop" (one big window with everything in it) > > which did not play nice at all with the concept of window manager on > > X11. > > Proper bidi support is indeed a sin qua non for me, which is why I'm > reluctantly giving up LyX for my mixed language documents, even though > I really like the LyX paradigm. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516017 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516020
Actually I started using LyX because at the time it had the best bidi support (added at around 1.1.5) Both bugs are basically to do with LaTeX rather than LyX, I believe. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
