Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| OK, got that working... looks OK. Patch attached.
I have some comments.
| - <h3>LyX is what?!</h3>
| + <h3>LyX is <em>what</em>?!</h3>
Do we really have to use a question as headline?
"What is LyX?"
"LyX is an advanced document processor."
"LyX is what?"
| <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
Hmm da hm :-) What is '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>
LyX is an advanced document processor ... It is released under an
Open Source license.
(perhaps)
|
| <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
LyX is written ...
| + 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.
LaTeX is not ours...
'In the background the legendary (La)TeX typesetting engine makes you
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
This is the second time with "LyX was written".... dammit we are still
writing it.
Aren't we allowed to say "LyX is written"?
| + 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
Perhaps not tout our index creation too much... not really great (but
I have plans for it :-) )
--
Lgb
