On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:37:47PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:43:22PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > What about > > > > [ snip some hard sell :-P ] > > > > > Is this an idea? > > > > It's a great idea. Check out the www-user repository, get yourself karma > > and go for it. > > > > -- > > Angus > > OK. > > One question: > > I have never written PHP before. How do I verify the correctness of > pages before committing them? Do I have to start up my own Apache > (installed already, but not running by default), or is there an easier > way? > > - Martin
OK, got that working... looks OK. Patch attached. - Martin
Index: index.php
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RCS file: /usr/local/lyx/cvsroot/www-user/index.php,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -p -r1.4 index.php
--- index.php 19 Sep 2005 13:48:13 -0000 1.4
+++ index.php 7 Jan 2006 15:22:05 -0000
@@ -51,33 +51,51 @@ include("news.inc");
LyX is the first WYSIWYM document processor.
</p>
- <h3>LyX is what?!</h3>
+ <h3>LyX is <em>what</em>?!</h3>
<p>
- LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
- approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not
- their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving
- details of visual layout to the software.
+ LyX is an advanced open source
+ (<a href="about/license.php">GPL v.2</a>) document processor
+ that encourages an approach to writing based on the <em>structure</em>
+ of your documents, not their appearance.
</p>
<p>
- LyX was originally a Unix application, but now runs natively on
- Windows and Mac OS X as well, thanks largely to the cross-platform Qt
- toolkit.
+ LyX was written for people that write and want their writing to look
+ great, out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
+ details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
+ boundaries. You just write. In the background, LyX's legendary LaTeX
+ typesetting engine makes <em>you</em> look good.
</p>
-<p>LyX produces high quality, professional output -- using LaTeX, an industrial
-strength typesetting engine, in the background; LyX is far more than a
-front-end to LaTeX, however. No knowledge of LaTeX is necessary to use LyX,
-although it will give a user more power.
-</p>
-
- <p>LyX is stable and fully featured. It has been used for documents as large
- as a thesis, or as small as a business letter. Despite its simple GUI
- interface (available in many languages), it supports tables, figures, and
- hyperlinked cross-references, and has a best-of-breed math editor.
+ <p>
+ On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
+ richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
+ nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
+ looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
+ different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
+ your dissertation the evening before going to press.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
+ internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
+ Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
</p>
+ <h3>But where did it come from?</h3>
+
+ <p>
+ LyX was written for scientists by scientists, and it shows, in
+ world-class support for math and structured document creation. Such
+ staples of scientific authoring as reference list and index creation
+ come standard. But <em>you</em> don't have to be a scientist: with LyX you
+ create just as easily a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film
+ script. A broad array of ready, well designed document layouts and style
+ modification and feature support packages are built in.
+ </p>
+
<h3>Wow! Tell me more!</h3>
+
<p> Find out <a href="about/">More About LyX</a> (features, screenshots,
internationalization, etc.) here. Or try the
<a href="internet/">Internet resources page</a> for information on
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