From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199901050329.WAA01439@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml
In-Reply-To: <36917A85.C6064B3B@alumni.caltech.edu> from "Thomas G. Lockhart"
	at "Jan 5, 1999  2:35:49 am"
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:29:34 -0500 (EST)
Cc: docs@postgreSQL.org
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> > Has anyone tried lyx and sgml.  It says they support sgml and 
> > linuxdoc.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it doesn't work for us. We use DocBook, not linuxdoc, as
> does the rest of the world now, including the LDP folks.
> 
> They have been talking about extending lyx to work with DocBook...

Good.  Seems like a natural.  I will keep my eyes on it.  lyx really
seems like an amazing word processor.   Like troff, but for X windows,
and more flexible.

Because most of my stuff is only a few pages, troff works just fine, and
has lots of customization, but for a large paper or a book, troff just
doesn't cut it, and I can see how lyx would be very good for that. 
Certainly the PostgreSQL docs are too large for a troff-only project,
but I can see lyx handling it nicely.

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