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Audacity User's Manual

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Gale: 12Apr11 I think we must have the above disclaimer if we are to keep this Manual up-to-date. Should we have a commented out intro div for 1.3.14, so at 1.3.14 release, instead of "bumping the Manual version", we uncomment the div?

Bill 15Apr11: Whichever is easier to do - I don't completely understand the difference, or what it would look like.
I had a though that we might want to flag items in the online manual that are new for 1.3.14, like this:
File:Bug.png An item or function that is new or changed in 1.3.14
The downside is removing all those "bug" images when it is time to release the manual.

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