Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

>> Put it in CVS, so we can make changes ourselves.
>
> Hehe, I'd prefer to have /discussion/ rather than just people
> changing it left and right. ;)

As you wish. Here are my suggestions:

@@ -1,29 +1,68 @@
-<html><head><title>
-DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
+        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>
+       
+<html> 
+       
+       <head>
+       
+       <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> 
+       
+       <title>
+       DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT
+       Press Release: {Month} {Day}, 2004 - Announcing Tux Paint 0.9.14
+       DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT
+       </title>
+       
+       <style type="text/css">
+       
+       body
+       {
+         font-family: font-family: "Myriad Web", "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;
+         color: black;
+         background: white;
+         line-height: 1.5;
+         max-width: 50em;
+         margin-left: auto;
+         margin-right: auto;
+       }
+         
+       p.draft
+       {
+         font-size: 1.5em;
+         font-weight: bold;
+         color: #aaaaaa;
+         background: white;
+       }
+       
+       div#highlights { margin-left: 3em; }
+       
+       em
+        {
+         color: maroon;
+         font-weight: bold;
+         font-style: normal;
+       }
+       </style>
+       
+       </head>
+       
+<body>
 
-Press Release: {Month} {Day}, 2004 - Announcing Tux Paint 0.9.14
-
-DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT
-</title></head>
-<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000"
-alink="#FF00FF">
-
-
-<h3><font color="#AAAAAA">DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT</font></h3>
+<p class="draft">DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT</p>
 
 <h1>Announcing Tux Paint 0.9.14</h1>
 
 <h2>New Breed Software Ships Major Release of Leading Open Source Art
 Software for Children</h2>
 
-<p>{Month} {Day}, 2004 (The Internet) -
+<p>{Month} {Day}, 2004 (The Internet) &#8211;
 <a href="http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/";
 title="New Breed Software website">New Breed Software</a>
 is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
 <a href="http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/";
 title="Tux Paint website">Tux&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;0.9.14</a>,
-the first major release this year of the highly acclaimed
-children's art software.  Over the past nine months, steady
+the first major release this year of the <em>highly acclaimed
+children&#x2019;s art software</em>.  Over the past nine months, steady
 progress has been made to improve Tux&nbsp;Paint and implement features
 requested by teachers and parents.</p>
 
@@ -35,83 +74,76 @@
 
 <h3>Highlights at a Glance</h3>
 
-<ul>
-  <li><i>New Features</i>
+<div id="highlights">
+
+<h4>New Features</h4>
     <ul>
+    
     <li>Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X and Windows users will greatly benefit from
-      '<b>Tux&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;Config.</b>', a simple graphical tool that allows
-      parents and teachers to modify Tux&nbsp;Paint's settings without
-      manually editing a configuration file.<br></li>
-
-    <li>Tux&nbsp;Paint now includes support for <b>'Starter'&nbsp;images</b>
-      which overlay a drawing, like the outlines in a coloring book.
-      Additionally, dual-layered 'starters' give the illusion of depth by
-      providing both a background and a foreground overlay.<br></li>
+      <em>Tux&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;Config</em>, a simple graphical tool that allows
+      parents and teachers to modify Tux&nbsp;Paint&#x2019;s settings without
+      manually editing a configuration file.</li>
+
+    <li>Tux&nbsp;Paint now support <em>coloring book outlines</em> which overlay
+      the drawings.
+      Additionally, dual-layered <em>starter images</em> give the illusion of depth by
+      providing both a background and a foreground overlay.</li>
 
     </ul>
-  <br></li>
 
-  <li><i>Feature Improvements</i>
+<h4>Feature Improvements</h4>
     <ul>
-    <li>The 'Eraser' tool now supports multiple sizes.<br></li>
+    
+    <li>The &#x2018;Eraser&#x2019; tool now supports <em>multiple sizes</em>.</li>
 
-    <li>A lock-file now prevents multiple copies of Tux&nbsp;Paint from running
-      when young children over-eagerly click its icon.<br></li>
+    <li>A lock-file <em>prevents multiple copies</em> of Tux&nbsp;Paint from running
+      when young children over-eagerly click its icon.</li>
 
-    <li>Colorization (tinting) of 'Rubber&nbsp;Stamp' images has been
-      improved.<br></li>
-
-    <li>A bug that could cause Tux&nbsp;Paint to crash when switching between
-      tools has been fixed.<br></li>
+    <li><em>Colorization</em> (tinting) of rubber&nbsp;stamp images has been
+      improved.</li>
 
     </ul>
-  <br></li>
 
-  <li><i>Improved Multilingual Support</i>
+<h4>Improved Multilingual Support</h4>
+
     <ul>
-    <li>Eleven (11) new languages are supported, bringing the total to 46.
-       (Afrikaans, Belarusian, Breton, Bulgarian, Croatian, Hindi, Serbian,
-       Slovenian, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Welsh.)<br></li>
-
-    <li>Two dozen previously supported translations were updated.
-       (Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Danish,
-       Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian,
-       Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese,
-       Simplified Chinese, Slovakian, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish and
-       Walloon.)<br></li>
-
-    <li>Translations of the add-on 'Rubber&nbsp;Stamps' image collection
-       are now maintained using the standard 'gettext' tools.<br></li>
-
-    <li>Localization improvements: Better uppercase-only mode,
-      complete conversion to UTF-8 strings, consistent use of capitalization
-      and punctuation.<br></li>
+    
+    <li><em>11 new languages</em> are supported, bringing the total to&nbsp;46,
+       and almost all the old translations have been updated.
+       The new languages are Afrikaans, Belarusian, Breton, Bulgarian, Croatian, 
Hindi, Serbian,
+       Slovenian, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Welsh.</li>
+
+    <li>Translations of the add-on rubber&nbsp;stamps images
+       are now maintained using the standard <em>gettext tools</em>.</li>
+
     </ul>
-  <br></li>
 
-  <li><i>New 'Rubber Stamps'</i>
+<h4>New rubber stamps</h4>
     <ul>
-    <li>Existing stamps have been improved and a number of new stamps have
-      been added: Automobiles, Canadian coins, Easter, Fireworks, Fruit,
-      Jack-o-Lantern, Sea creatures.<br></li>
+    <li>Existing stamps have been <em>improved</em> and a number of new stamps have
+      been <em>added</em>: automobiles, Canadian coins, Easter, fireworks, fruit,
+      jack-o-Lantern and sea creatures.</li>
+    </ul>
+    
+    <h4>Bugs Fixed</h4>
+    
+    <ul>
+    <li>A huge number of both major and minor bugs have been fixed.</li>
     </ul>
-  </li>
-
-</ul>
 
+</div>
+    
 <p>For a complete list of changes, see the
-<a href="ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/nbs/unix/x/tuxpaint/CHANGES.txt";
-title="Tux Paint change log">Tux&nbsp;Paint change log</a> and
-<a href="ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/nbs/unix/x/tuxpaint/stamps/CHANGES.txt";
-title="Tux Paint Stamps change log">Tux&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;Stamps change
+<a 
href="ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/nbs/unix/x/tuxpaint/CHANGES.txt";>Tux&nbsp;Paint 
change log</a>
+and
+<a 
href="ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/nbs/unix/x/tuxpaint/stamps/CHANGES.txt";>Tux&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;Stamps
 change
 log</a>.</p>
 
 
-<h3>Getting Tux&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;0.9.14</h3>
+<h3>Obtaining Tux&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;0.9.14</h3>
 
 <p>Tux&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;0.9.14 can be downloaded over the Internet by visiting
-<a href="http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/download/"; title="Tux Paint
-Download Page">http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/download/</a>.
+<a href="http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/download/"; title="Tux Paint 
Download Page">http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/download/</a>.
 Source code and binary packages for various Linux distributions,
 Microsoft&nbsp;Windows and Apple&nbsp;Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X are available.</p>
 
@@ -120,19 +152,10 @@
 
 <h3>Supporting Tux&nbsp;Paint</h3>
 
-<p>Tux&nbsp;Paint is supported through voluntary contributions of time
-and resources by individuals from around the world.  To discover how you or
+<p>Tux&nbsp;Paint has been supported through voluntary contributions of time
+and resources by over 80 individuals from around the world. To discover how you or
 your organization can join in and help support Tux&nbsp;Paint, visit the
-<a href="http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/help/";
-title="Help Tux Paint">Help&nbsp;Tux&nbsp;Paint</a> web page.</p>
-
-<h3>About Tux&nbsp;Paint</h3>
-
-<p>Tux&nbsp;Paint is a free software project that provides parents, teachers
-and their children and students with a fun, easy to use drawing canvas on their
-computer.  Tux&nbsp;Paint runs on a variety of platforms and in numerous
-languages.  Over 80 people have been involved in the creation of this
-software.</p>
+<a href="http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/help/";>Help&nbsp;Tux&nbsp;Paint</a> 
web page.</p>
 
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@@ -192,6 +215,8 @@
 
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+</body>
 
-</body></html>
+</html>
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