Re: Two more website styles

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

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

Funny.  I use Blackbox myself, mostly because Fluxbox crashed on me if
its config file was not allowed to mangle the LC_CTYPE setting.  I
never could stand KDE, and GNOME is now gone because it has turned out
too resource-intensive for my box as well.  192MB should not
constantly page and swap.

>> 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.

Feel free.  I tend to get annoyed at any version I create myself when
reading it too often.

>> 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.

One should at least mention 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)

Well, it is not just for editing...

Freshmeat:

* AUCTeX is a much-enhanced (La)TeX environment for Emacs and part of
  the GNU project

> What about
>
> * AUCTeX: TeX-related editing at its best (Marketing speak?  Me?
>   Never!)

Well, if we are into marketing speak, I think the following would not
be too bad:

* AUCTeX: the GNU way of working with TeX

Since we really can't hope to put even the basic details into a tag
line without being tedious, we might as well go for catchy (say it
over a few times loudly).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum