Content changes per marketing discussion, plus tidy per Rene

[SVN r29939]

1 files changed, 78 insertions, 44 deletions

diff --git a/index.htm b/index.htm
index d7d7dc0b87..c43494b20f 100644
--- a/index.htm
+++ b/index.htm
@@ -33,26 +33,45 @@
               <div class="section-body-0">
                 <div class="section-body-1">
                   <p>The Boost web site provides free peer-reviewed portable
-                  C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which
-                  work well with the C++ Standard Library. The libraries are
-                  intended to be widely useful, and are in regular use by
-                  thousands of programmers across a broad spectrum of
-                  applications.</p>
+                  C++ source libraries.</p>
+
+                  <p>The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the
+                  C++ Standard Library. The libraries are intended to be
+                  widely useful, and usable by thousands of programmers
+                  across a broad spectrum of applications. The <a href=
+                  "more/license_info.html">Boost license</a> encourages both
+                  commercial and non-commercial use.</p>
 
                   <p>A further goal is to establish "existing practice" and
                   provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries
                   are suitable for eventual standardization. Ten Boost
-                  libraries will be included in the <a href=
-                  "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/">C++ Standards
-                  Committee</a>'s upcoming <a href=
-                  "http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/library_technical_report.html">
-                  C++ Standard Library Technical Report</a> as a step toward
-                  becoming part of a future C++ Standard.</p>
-
-                  <p>Although Boost was begun by members of the C++ Standards
-                  Committee Library Working Group, participation has expanded
-                  to include thousands of programmers from the C++ community
-                  at large.</p>
+                  libraries are already included in the <a href=
+                  "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21">C++ Standards
+                  Committee's</a> Library Technical Report (<a href=
+                  "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1745.pdf">TR1</a>)
+                  as a step toward becoming part of a future C++ Standard.
+                  More Boost libraries will part of the upcoming <a href=
+                  "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1810.html">
+                  TR2</a>.</p>
+
+                  <p class="faq"><span class="faq-question">Getting
+                  started.</span> <span class="faq-answer">You can <a href=
+                  "more/getting_started.html">download, build, and
+                  install</a> the latest Boost release from <a href=
+                  "http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&amp;package_id=8041">
+                  SourceForge</a>. Popular Linux and Unix distributions such
+                  as <a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/">Fedora</a>, <a href=
+                  "http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>, and <a href=
+                  "http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a> also include pre-built
+                  Boost packages. Or Boost may already be available on your
+                  organization's internal web server.</span></p>
+
+                  <p class="faq"><span class=
+                  "faq-question">Background.</span> <span class=
+                  "faq-answer">The <a href="more/background.html">background
+                  information page</a> has introductory material that may be
+                  of interest to managers wondering if their organization
+                  should use Boost.</span></p>
                 </div>
               </div>
             </div>
@@ -159,6 +178,11 @@
             <div class="section-body">
               <div class="section-body-0">
                 <div class="section-body-1">
+                  <p>Although Boost was begun by members of the C++ Standards
+                  Committee Library Working Group, participation has expanded
+                  to include thousands of programmers from the C++ community
+                  at large.</p>
+
                   <p>If you are interested in participating in Boost, please
                   join our main <a href=
                   "more/mailing_lists.htm#main">developers mailing list</a>.
@@ -272,10 +296,10 @@
                     Ottosen.</li>
 
                     <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                    "libs/wave/index.html">Wave</a>:</span> Standards conformant
-                    implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor
-                    functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator
-                    interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser.</li>
+                    "libs/wave/index.html">Wave</a>:</span> Standards
+                    conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++
+                    preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use
+                    iterator interface, from Hartmut&nbsp;Kaiser.</li>
                   </ul>
 
                   <h4>Updated Libraries</h4>
@@ -292,19 +316,21 @@
 
                     <li>
                       <span class="library"><a href=
-                      "doc/html/date_time.html">Date-Time 
-                      Library</a>:</span>
+                      "doc/html/date_time.html">Date-Time Library</a>:</span>
 
                       <ul>
-                        <li>Added <a href="doc/html/date_time/local_time.html">
-                        local time and time zone classes</a>.</li>
+                        <li>Added <a href=
+                        "doc/html/date_time/local_time.html">local time and
+                        time zone classes</a>.</li>
 
-                        <li>Added <a href="doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html">
-                        format-based Input/Output facets</a>.</li>
+                        <li>Added <a href=
+                        "doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html">format-based
+                        Input/Output facets</a>.</li>
 
                         <li>For a complete list of changes, see the library
-                        <a href="doc/html/date_time/details.html#date_time.changes">
-                        change history</a>.</li>
+                        <a href=
+                        "doc/html/date_time/details.html#date_time.changes">change
+                        history</a>.</li>
                       </ul>
                     </li>
 
@@ -422,16 +448,23 @@
                     range</code> like <code>front(), back()</code> and
                     <code>operator[]()</code>.</li>
 
-                    <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                    "libs/regex/index.html">Regex Library</a>:</span>
+                    <li>
+                      <span class="library"><a href=
+                      "libs/regex/index.html">Regex Library</a>:</span>
+
                       <ul>
-                      <li>Rewritten front end parser now supports (?imsx-imsx) constructs,
-                      plus lookbehind assertions and conditional expressions.</li>
-                      <li>Thin wrapper classes improve integration with MFC/ATL code.</li>
-                      <li>Full (optional) Unicode support via the ICU library.</li>
-                      </ul>
-                      Refer to the <a href="libs/regex/doc/history.html">regex history page</a> for more 
-                      information on these and other small changes.
+                        <li>Rewritten front end parser now supports
+                        (?imsx-imsx) constructs, plus lookbehind assertions
+                        and conditional expressions.</li>
+
+                        <li>Thin wrapper classes improve integration with
+                        MFC/ATL code.</li>
+
+                        <li>Full (optional) Unicode support via the ICU
+                        library.</li>
+                      </ul>Refer to the <a href=
+                      "libs/regex/doc/history.html">regex history page</a>
+                      for more information on these and other small changes.
                     </li>
 
                     <li><span class="library"><a href=
@@ -510,7 +543,9 @@
 
                             <li><a href="people/people.htm">People</a></li>
 
-                            <li><a href="doc/html/who_s_using_boost_.html">Who's Using Boost?</a></li>
+                            <li><a href=
+                            "doc/html/who_s_using_boost_.html">Who's Using
+                            Boost?</a></li>
 
                             <li><a href=
                             "more/moderators.html">Moderators</a></li>
@@ -566,7 +601,8 @@
                           <div id="revised">
                             <p>Revised 
                             <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->
-                             <!-- #BeginDate format:Sw1 -->8 May, 2005<!-- #EndDate -->
+                             <!-- #BeginDate format:Sw1 -->8 May, 2005
+                            <!-- #EndDate -->
                              
                             <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="40407" --></p>
                           </div>
@@ -590,8 +626,8 @@
                           <div id="banners">
                             <p><a href=
                             "http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img class="c1"
-                                 src="more/w3c_valid_xhtml10.png" alt=
-                                 "Valid XHTML 1.0!" /></a></p>
+                            src="more/w3c_valid_xhtml10.png" alt=
+                            "Valid XHTML 1.0!" /></a></p>
 
                             <p><a href=
                             "http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">
@@ -601,7 +637,7 @@
                             <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net"><img class=
                             "c1" src=
                             "http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=7586&amp;type=1"
-                                 alt="SourceForge.net" /></a></p>
+                            alt="SourceForge.net" /></a></p>
                           </div>
                         </div>
                       </div>
@@ -631,5 +667,3 @@
   </div>
 </body>
 </html>
-
-