On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 09:02 +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> | On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 00:37 +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> | > Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | > 
> | > | Note the considerable uncertainty in these measurements.
> | > | 
> | > | Is this the info you were after?
> | > 
> | > yes. thanks.
> | 
> | Does this mean the patch can go in for 1.4.0? Or not? It fixes a
> | regression.
> 
> Now I am a bit lost...
> What regresssion?
> 
> (I obviously have to fire up bugzilla.)

Please do...

> | OK then... I have some things for www-user in my tree that would be good
> | to get in before that. People have be waiting long for this release!
> 
> sure, go ahead

Attached the latest, including remarks from several people. Committed.

- Martin
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/lyx/cvsroot/www-user/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.317
diff -u -p -r1.317 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	2 Jan 2006 21:55:58 -0000	1.317
+++ ChangeLog	9 Jan 2006 10:19:27 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-01-07  Martin Vermeer  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+	* index.php: new sales text
+
 2006-01-02  Angus Leeming  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 
 	* news.inc: spelling.
Index: index.php
===================================================================
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	9 Jan 2006 10:19:27 -0000
@@ -51,33 +51,51 @@ include("news.inc");
    LyX is the first WYSIWYM document processor.
    </p>
 
-   <h3>LyX is what?!</h3> 
+   <h3>Ehhh... please explain.</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 a document processor
+   that encourages an approach to writing based on the <em>structure</em> 
+   of your documents, not their appearance. It is released under a 
+   <a href="about/license.php">Free Software / Open Source</a> license.
    </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 is 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, Prof. Knuth's 
+   legendary TeX 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 is designed 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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