From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11880 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 2014 20:58:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11860 invoked by uid 89); 7 Jul 2014 20:58:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: csmail.cs.umass.edu Received: from mdc1.cs.umass.edu (HELO csmail.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:58:01 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.7] (c-71-192-247-69.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [71.192.247.69]) by csmail.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F403D210000268A3567; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:57:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <53BB09D7.1030307@cs.umass.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:58:00 -0000 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: TeX WYSIWG Editor References: <4B6A3638A81C45709E67D85B87D612BB@HPDV7TNotebook> In-Reply-To: <4B6A3638A81C45709E67D85B87D612BB@HPDV7TNotebook> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 On 7/7/2014 4:41 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > Are there any TeX WYSIWG editors? In particular, ones that support managing > changes in a distributed environment (as a minimum)? Changing TeX documents > seems tedious (without a WYSIWG) if doing it by hand. Wordperfect and > Microsoft Word hid the font/formatting commands from the user to produce a > WYSIWG editor, hence the question. Is there support for the same capability > in the FSF environments for TeX. > > TeX seems to be 36 years old (circa 78 in Knuth's TeX Manual) and it may be > a good thing to change to a language that contains a more attractive > interface, allows graphics/pictures, and provides the > multi-computer/multi-terminal support that TeX has. Yes, there are things out there. It's kind of off-topic for the cygwin list since it has more to do with TeX than cygwin. Lyx is one example; there may be others. However, I have produced book-length works with multiple authors using TeX (LaTeX actually) as is. We used a subversion repository to hold everything. With some attention to how subversion commit emails are configured, etc., it was easy to see what others were doing, and the emerge package of emacs was helpful for going over and adjusting edits made by others, etc. For figures we tended to use Adobe Illustrator. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple