Re: Two more website styles

* David Kastrup (2005-03-26) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> As soon as I added descriptions this didn't look good anymore, so I
>> settled with the minatures.  A new version can be found at the URL
>> mentioned above.
>
> I think that we should probably have the toolbar in our screenshots

Well, for the old page I wanted to make a screenshot showing both the
math menu and the toolbar but couldn't really get it right.  Either
the menu poked out to the right of the window or covered part of the
toolbar.  As long as the toolbar is somewhat experimental (and only
Miguel knows the code) I don't want to have it included in every
screenshot.  Maybe I'll make two separate screenshots for the toolbar
and the math menu.  It is a pity that on Debian I don't have a single
submenu without a character missing from the font. (I probably should
try that without my ~/.fonts.conf.)  On my FreeBSD installation
another font (not Vera) is picked for the symbols, so I can get that
from there.

> (what toolkit is that, BTW?).

GTK with the Mist theme.  I activate it with
include "/usr/share/themes/Mist/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.  The window manager is a CVS Blackbox from a few
weeks ago (should be pretty much what 0.70.0 is now) with a theme I
got from the Blackbox mailing list and which I changed according to my
taste.

>> There now is a screenshot showing a bit of preview-latex.  I don't
>> know how to do the MusiXTeX, Bengali etc. stuff.
[...]
> I actually have not an inkling of a clue with regard to Bengali.  I
> don't know about the language (could not say where it is spoken and
> written) or the packages.  I just picked out random stuff and hit it
> with preview-latex.  Probably some PStricks screenshots might be more
> impressive, but I at least also wanted to point out the package's
> usefulness when working with languages: most people will probably
> rather associate it with mathematics.

I'll see if I can find something ...

>> Additionally I added a few sentences about preview-latex in the
>> features section.  Suggestions for improvement are welcome.
>
> I think I wrote a suggestion on the list already.  It is not quite
> easy to capture the essence of preview-latex into a few words.

Ah, now I found it.  Yes, that was that puffer-style paragraph which I
deleted instantly from my memory because of too much marketing
speak.  Okay, I am exaggerating, but nonetheless I'd like to make it a
bit more decent for it to better fit in with the rest of the feature
descriptions, if you don't mind.

> What has struck me rather heavily is that AUCTeX is _exclusively_
> toted as TeX/LaTeX, to the degree of not even mentioning ConTeXt and
> Texinfo.  That's not going to attract us new developers in those
> areas...

Yeah, I know.  But as the support for ConTeXt and Texinfo is evolving
rather slowly I haven't yet had a strong need to change it.

Now, what tag lines do we have:

* AUCTeX: An integrated TeX/LaTeX environment (Savannah/web site)
* AUCTeX is the predominant TeX/LaTeX writing environment for
  Emacs/XEmacs (Savannah)
* AUCTeX is an integrated environment for editing LaTeX and TeX
  files (manual)

What about

* AUCTeX: TeX-related editing at its best (Marketing speak?  Me? Never!)
* AUCTeX: TeX-related document preparation with Emacs
* AUCTeX: An integrated TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt/Texinfo environment (Hmmm ...)
* AUCTeX: Master your TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt/Texinfo documents (You bet.)
* AUCTeX: Conquer the TeX world (Is that trademarked by KDE?)
* AUCTeX: The TeXnical experience (I hate puns.)
* AUCTeX: TeXnically superior (Oh, this one is embarrassing.)

Sorry, I am not in the mood for being serious right now.

-- 
Ralf