On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 09:46:21AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> Alan added,
> >The one sentence that will be quoted should include the words:
>
> > Literate Programming
>
>
> Just off the cuff
>
> The LyX Development team is pleased to announce LyX 1.0.1, a
> full-featured word and document processor, which exports latex for
> printing. Additionally, latex may be used within LyX documents, and
> LyX is now capable of reading and importing latex files. Changes since
> 1.0.1 include support for literate programming, a revised tutorial, and
> translations of the tutorial into additional languages.
>
I suggest in return:
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The LyX Development team is pleased to obliterate the FUD which claims
there's no open source word processor! Here (www.lyx.org) is LyX 1.0.1, a
full-featured document processor, which exports latex for printing.
It's much more than a "front-end for LaTeX", as previously reported here.
LyX contains support for literate programming, a phenomenal math editor,
figures, tables.... LyX menus have been translated into many languages, and
documentation translation is underway. Latex may be used within LyX
documents, and LyX is now capable of importing latex files. But even better,
LyX can be used by your non-LaTeX-aware relatives and friends!
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(The tutorial "revision" was about a 50 line patch, not worth mentioning.)
The first line will make it good slashdot material. "FUD" and "open source"
are some of their favorite words.
You'll probably tell me this is too long, but I feel like each of these
sentences is necessary. My stuff above is 95 (ish) words. Just looked at
slashdot and their latest quote is 84 words (plus Rob's commentary), so
maybe it's not too bad.
-Amir
