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Re: Java in Debian 5



On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:05:42 +0000
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@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

If you (or anyone else) *do* have LyX working well with mixed language
documents, any tips would be appreciated.

Celejar
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