Re: Java in Debian 5
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:07:29AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> 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
Actually I started using LyX because at the time it had the best bidi
support (added at around 1.1.5)
Both bugs are basically to do with LaTeX rather than LyX, I believe.
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