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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10
Ken Brown writes:
>
> I don't use lyx (though I use tex extensively), so maybe there's
> something I don't understand. But is it really necessary for Cygwin's
> lyx to support a native Windows tex?
Necessary? No. Useful? Yes.
> Wouldn't it be more reasonable for
> users of a native Windows tex to use a native Windows lyx?
Until recently, the only Cygwin TeX engine was teTeX, which does not
support XeTeX. If you wanted a Cygwin version of lyx, you could not
have used XeTeX, unless you used MikTeX, for example.
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Enrico
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