[TUHS] TeX and groff (was: roff(7))

[Adam Thornton]

> On Jan 12, 2022, at 8:49 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 06:12:45PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 11, 2022, at 3:18 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There was such a thing for TeX, can't remember the name, but my
>>> Dad (very computer not savvy) used it to write a book.  It was
>>> WYSIWYG but spit out TeX.
>> 
>> May be Textures by Blue Sky Research?
> 
> That's it.

LyX is a venerable and not entirely unsuccessful attempt to put a WYSIWYG front end on LaTeX.  Every few years I try to use it and then go back to something else.