LaTeX and LyX

[tawalker]

I would be surprised if I was the first to do so, but has anyone thought of, or actually tried, porting LaTeX and/or related apps to the Zaurus?

If I had an app like LyX (wordprocessor-like frontend for LaTeX) running on my Z - especially if it could output DVI files or even print direct to PDF - I would be one happy bunny, especially as I\'d never have to go near Hancom Word again...

(with apologies to any HW fans out there  )

Tim

[Mickeyl]

A port of LyX shouldn\'t be too hard - it would need a dedicated Qt-Embedded build though, because LyX needs RTTI and relies on Exceptions.
TeTex could easily be added to OpenEmbedded.

[catachresis]

There have been two links posted to possible Zaurus ports of LaTex.  I haven\'t heard whether either will work with OZ (or how well).  It would be great to hear one way or the other.


http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...light=processor

[MarcusKracht]

I would be surprised if I was the first to do so, but has anyone thought of, or actually tried, porting LaTeX and/or related apps to the Zaurus?

Tim

I have installed LaTeX (using some previous
versions on the net). You can check out my
report on http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Kra...rus/zaurus.html. Downloads are mirrored there. This is done for pdaxrom, but should work for other installations too, as
far as I can see. I works great and fast.

-- Marcus

[catachresis]

Marcus, your Zaurus page at ucla.edu is not available.  If this isn\'t a temporary glitch, could you mirror your report at another site or even replicate it here in this thread?  Thanks! -manny

[MarcusKracht]

Marcus, your Zaurus page at ucla.edu is not available.  If this isn\'t a temporary glitch, could you mirror your report at another site or even replicate it here in this thread?  Thanks! -manny

I could see it, so let me write it down
once again:

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Kracht
/zaurus/zaurus.html

Alternatively: go to my homepage (first line
above; some people need to add a slash, or
add: /Index.htm at the end of the first line)
and then look at the bottom for a link for
the zaurus. That should get you there.

-- Marcus

[catachresis]

Sweet!  Thanks Marcus for clarifying that.  What\'s it like teaching electronic linguistics at UCLA?  I\'m just finishing my PhD in 17th century literary theory at Trinity in Dublin.

[yzord]

I actually contributed a discussion in the Software forum (under maslovsky\'s thread concerning porting QT3 Apps) asking for a port of Lyx before I saw this thread. Either way, I\'ll throw in my support behind anyone who wants to port this fine front-end.

Oh, and tawalker, I dont think there\'s _anyone_ here that actually _likes_ Hancomm Word (more like tolerates it). How good is a word processor that bogs down to near catalepsy while editing a 50k document?!
Yz

[PsionX]

See this... Interesting, not ?  
But i don\'t think that is a good (small) solution.

[panyo]

For people asking for Lyx, I wonder if you have seen AUCTeX.
It is an indispensable part of typsetting mathematics and
now includes preview-latex, which I much prefer as a front
end for LaTeX since it gives me direct access to the underlying
LaTeX, while neatly rendering completed math sections until I enter
them again for more editing. I do this in emacs, so I am not
sure if this could be part of a 'small' solution. Not sure
if there is way to make it work with vim.