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-LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
-based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is
-released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
-
-LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, right 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 you look good.
+LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to
+writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
+appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source
+license.
+
+LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
+right 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 you look good.
+
+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.
+
+Please note that Lyx 1.5.x will not be available until Slackware ships with
+QT4, or until more Lyx frontends are released (at the moment, the only
+frontend is for QT 4).
+
+Thank you