You have the press release, right? The language, while shorter, should be
pretty close. We certainly list a lot of new features in 1.0. The
comparison seems fairly to be against 0.10.7, as this is the most widely
tried version among the potential user base out there.
Best regards
--
Larry S. Marso
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On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 01:15:56PM -0500, Amir Karger wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 12:15:02PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote:
> > Are we going to put some kind of flashing banner, or at least some words
> > visible at the *top* of the page, to indicate 1.0 has been released?
> >
>
> Well, there ought to be *something*. Here's a potential something.
>
> I hope I'm not wrong in listing latex import as "the" new feature since
> 0.12. But I *did* get the impression that that was the main reason 0.12.2
> turned into 1.0. I feel like the description of the version is still a bit
> awkward. I wanted to compare it to 0.10.7 since that's what most people
> have...
>
> Also unfortunate: it seemed most logical to move the LGT to after the "how
> to get it", but that puts it near the bottom of the page. I think the LGT
> deserves better, but don't really know what to do about it.
>
> By the way, I linked to lyx-current.tar.gz, so Lars can't put this page up
> until he fixes ftp.lyx.
>
> Speaking of ftp, I linked to ftp.lyx.org, and to getit.html for mirrors. If
> I do that, though, there are *no* links to la1ad. Should that be on the
> getit.html page?
>
> I really don't like flashing banners, so I just made it an <h2>. Some might
> argue that we should put "Lyx has been released" even before "what is lyx".
> If so, we could easily cut & paste the two sections. But if we want the page
> not to be obsolete next week, maybe having "what is lyx" on top is still a
> good idea (as long as it's not too long a section).
>
> I hope a few people will proofread this, since we're hoping to get a bunch
> of hits to this page. (Lars, it might be fun to take a daily snapshot of the
> number of hits you've gotten, and see if it changes when the press releases
> come out. Slashdot has a link today to a paper examining the slashdot
> effect, which shows that hits went up to I think 250/minute within like 15
> minutes of posting on slashdot.)
>
> Incidentally, I suppose if you put this file in, you'll need to replace the
> hits script, right? Because my copy has a certain number of hits. I really
> don't know anything about hit counters...
>
> -Amir
