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LyX/Mac 1.6.3 (Mac)

A fully-featured implementation of LyX, a WYSIWYM editor/formatter using the LaTeX typesetting engine, on the Mac OSX native graphics display, with the familiar Aqua GUI look & feel and anti-aliased text. LyX/Mac does not require X11. It is particularly well-adapted to technical and scientific editing and writing, but equally useful...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, LyX, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-07

Is desktop publishing possible without Microsoft Office?

Is desktop publishing possible without Microsoft Office?poor advice" and the only feeling Iget when confronted with Microsoft Word is revulsion "Need I say more.The advice is not worth paying attention to.Can you use a large screw driver as a hammer?I suppose you could, but why bother???LyXOn the LaTeX front, don't...

Tags: Word processors, desktop, Microsoft Word, Lyx, Microsoft Corp., LaTeX, Microsoft Office, desktop publishing

Discussion threads 2005-09-09

Additional Resources

Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" is ready for download - Go get it!

Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" is ready for download - Go get it!OpenOffice 3.0is the biggest changeRE: Ubuntu 9.04 Its amazing how no one gets excited about a linux release. I guess there is nothing to be excited about when you have to reformat your drive every 6 months losing...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, KDE 4.2, http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=5, update manager, Other OS, Ubuntu 9.04, Linux, Ubuntu, linux fanboy

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

"Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?

"Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?Well...Producing texts is "fun" and all that, however you've got a hurdle or two to overcome. Nothing unsurmountable, but they're there.The prime issue is that publishers have an awful lot of material locked down under copyright, particularly in terms of graphics....

Tags: E-books, LaTeX, textbook, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Open source migration must be evolutionary

Open source migration must be evolutionaryI agreeThe risk and effort involved in a all-in one migration is very high. Open source works great with proprietary software so there is no reason to migrate the server-side all at once. The desktop is a little harder to do.James DixonThis is why FOSS...

Tags: Web browsers, Desktops, open source, migration, Open Source Migration, Microsoft Corp., desktop

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Guy Steele's new programming language

Guy Steele's new programming languageEver heard of APL?Great for formulas.You can write in ASCIIAccording to the manual you can use ASCII keywords for all the special symbols. So if you were just using a text editor you would write it kind of like a conventional program. But if you used...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, ASCII, APL, Fortress, programming, programming language, Guy Steele

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

Should kids go back to pen and paper?

Should kids go back to pen and paper?Lost arts or hindrances to learning?As a student growing up in the Midwest in the 1960's, with pencil and paper, I struggled long and hard to prepare papers -- drafting and redrafting, writing and re-writing because parents and teachers did not accept crossed-out...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Channel management, Web, computer

Discussion threads 2006-06-12

What is your favorite desktop Linux application?

What is your favorite desktop Linux application?CadenceIn particular, the ICFB (integrated circuit front-to-back) design suite with Analog Workbench. Spend a good third of my time with it some weeks.Oh, not just another commercial *nix tech tool?Necessarily, then, it has to be [u]OpenOffice.org[/u] because I use [b]it[/b] to write the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Microsoft Outlook, EMACS, Linux, favorite desktop Linux application, desktop Linux application, desktop, desktop Linux

Discussion threads 2005-05-24

XLaunch-O-Matic 1.1 (Mac)

What this software does _______________________ Ever wanted to be able to open a document in an X11 application by simply double-clicking it from the Finder? Well now you can! By default XLaunch-O-Matic is able to open documents with gv (.ps files) gimp (.xpm files) texmacs (.tm files) lyx (.lyx files)...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Preference, Daniel Aarno, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2003-08-26