[rescue] Re: nuking from orbit

[David Cantrell]

Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> I think that the ideal would be something in between WYSIWYG.  Let us
> select text, and make it underlined, and let us see it be underline with
> out actually allowing us to do all sorts of format tweaking.
> 
> Someday I may tackle this problem.  For now, I know latex, and that is
> good enough.

If you do want to tackle it, submit patches to LyX.  It's a GUI editor
whose native format looks suspiciously LaTeX-like.  I generally use it
for generating the TeX for the outline of whatever I'm writing, then
use an ordinary editor to fill in the body text.

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David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

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