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<volumenum>2005</volumenum> <volumenum>2005</volumenum>
<issuenum>2</issuenum> <issuenum>2 &amp; 3</issuenum>
<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher> <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
<pubdate>2005-01-19</pubdate> <pubdate>2005-01-19</pubdate>
<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title> <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo> </articleinfo>
<sect1 id="new-released"> <sect1 id="new-review">
<title>New documents @ The LDP</title> <title>Documents submitted for review</title>
<para></para> <itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Prospective authors for The LDP are usually pointed to the excellent <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/">LDP Author Guide</ulink>. However, the guide is very big and has a lot of details. David Laywer's <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:8242:200501:claiepedajakajhoajgg">Draft of very short Authors Guide</ulink> is up for review, and intends to be a quick guide to new authors. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem> </sect1>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem> <sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<listitem><para>Ari Mäkelä published v2.0.29 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO/">Finnish HOWTO</ulink>, with more details on OpenOffice on Debian and the choice of fonts.</para></listitem>
<sect1 id="new-review">
<listitem><para>The v1.3 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html">Samba Authenticated Gateway</ulink>, by Ricardo Alexandre Mattar, has extended information on how to update your firewall configuration as users connect, including a link to a script that takes the pain off you for implementing this feature.</para></listitem>
<title>Documents submitted for review</title>
<listitem><para>Howard Shane documents new models and drivers in v1.6 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Webcam-HOWTO/">Webcam HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Getting a bit old-fashioned but still wide-spread: IRC. In his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IRC/">IRC HOWTO</ulink>, Frédéric L.W. Meunier explains the basics and lists available Linux applications.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Kurt Swendson asked us to <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/archive/Beowulf-HOWTO.html">archive</ulink> the existing version of the Beowulf HOWTO, and replace it with a <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Beowulf-HOWTO/">completely revised Beowulf-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Peter Bieringer did a few grammatical correction and incorporated minor review comment in the IPv6 IPsec section for v0.48 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/">Linux + IPv6 HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bryan Henderson updated the example module for 2.6 kernel and mentions dmesg as a way to see kernel messages in his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/">Module HOWTO</ulink> and also added info about the dangers of unloading modules. There is a link to the LKMPG.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="new-proposed">
<sect1 id="tldp-world-news">
<title>New document proposals</title> <title>News in The LDP world</title>
<itemizedlist> <itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem> <listitem>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem> <para>Linux MIPS HOWTO</para>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem> <para>Ralf Bächle announced the replacement of the Linux MIPS HOWTO by a <ulink url="http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/index.php">wiki</ulink>. He is looking for advise on translation of the document.</para>
</itemizedlist> </listitem>
</sect1> <listitem>
<sect1 id="updated-docs"> <para>XML Editors and conversions</para>
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
<para>Saqib Ali is working on a <ulink url="http://www.xml-dev.com/xml/editors.html">list of XML editors</ulink> categorized by WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM and Text based. Secondary categorization is done by deviding the editors in Freeware, OpenSource and commercial groups.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<para>Recently we got a couple of documents written in OpenOffice, which needed to be converted to DocBook XML. There are a couple of possibilities to get there:</para>
<listitem><para>Ari Mäkelä published v2.0.29 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO/">Finnish HOWTO</ulink>, with more on OpenOffice on Debian and th choice of fonts.</para></listitem>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>The v1.3 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html">Samba Authenticated Gateway</ulink>, by Ricardo Alexandre Mattar, has extended information on how to update your firewall configuration as users connect, including a link to a script that spares you the work of implementing this feature yourself.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>First convert the file to HTML using OO features, then optionally run it through <command>tidy</command> and then through <ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2db/">html2db</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>There is a tool which is called <command>OOo2dbk</command> and that can be downloaded <ulink url="http://www.indesko.com/sites/fr/telechargements/ooo2dbk___du_docbook/view"> from http://www.indesko.com/sites/fr/telechargements/ooo2dbk___du_docbook/view</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Howard Shane announces new models and new drivers in v1.6 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Webcam-HOWTO/">Webcam HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Getting a bit old-fashioned but still wide-spread: IRC. In his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IRC/">HOWTO</ulink> Frédéric L.W. Meunier describes the basics and available Linux applications.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Kurt Swendson asked to <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/archive/Beowulf-HOWTO.html">archive</ulink> the existing version of the Beowulf HOWTO and to replace it with this <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Beowulf-HOWTO/">completely revised document</ulink>.</para></listitem> </listitem>
<listitem><para>Peter Bieringer did a checkup of the IPv6 IPsec section in v0.48 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/">Linux + IPv6 HOWTO</ulink>Bryan Henderson put something about the 2.6 kernels in his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/">Module HOWTO</ulink> and also added info about the dangers of unloading modules.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="tldp-contribute">
<sect1 id="tldp-world-news"> <title>The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</title>
<title>News in The LDP world</title>
<para><ulink url="http://tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>
<itemizedlist> (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the
GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining
<listitem> <email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> (a low volume discussion mailing
list). You can also send your suggestions to
<para>Linux MIPS HOWTO:</para> <email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
<para>Ralf Bächle announced the replacement of the Linux MIPS HOWTO by a <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/">wiki</ulink>. He is looking for advise on translation of the document.</para> <para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels
(Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people.
</listitem> To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the
<email>news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> mailing list. <ulink
<listitem> url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn">Back issues</ulink> are available at
http://tldp.org/ldpwn. </para>
<para>XML Editors and conversions:</para>
<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
<para>Saqib Ali is working on a <ulink url="http://www.xml-dev.com/xml/editors.html">list of XML editors</ulink> categorized by WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM and Text based. Secondary categorization is done by deviding the editors in Freeware, OpenSource and commercial groups.</para> community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related
<para>Recently we got a couple of documents written in OpenOffice, which needed to be converted to DocBook XML. There are a couple of possibilities to get there:</para> to free software documentation. Write to us at
<itemizedlist> <email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
<listitem><para>First convert the file to HTML using OO features, then optionally run it through <command>tidy</command> and then through <ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2db/">html2db</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>There is a tool which is called <command>OOo2dbk</command> and that can eb downloaded <ulink url="http://www.indesko.com/sites/fr/telechargements/ooo2dbk___du_docbook/view">here</ulink>.</para></listitem> </sect1>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem> </article>
<listitem>
<para>News item title 3:</para>
<para>News item 3 body.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="tldp-discussions">
<title>Discussions on The LDP lists</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Discussion topic title 1:</para>
<para>Discussion topic 1 body.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Discussion topic title 2:</para>
<para>Discussion topic 2 body.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Discussion topic title 3:</para>
<para>Discussion topic 3 body.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="tldp-contribute">
<title>The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</title>
<para><ulink url="http://tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>
(TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the
GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining
<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> (a low volume discussion mailing
list). You can also send your suggestions to
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels
(Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people.
To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the
<email>news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> mailing list. <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn">Back issues</ulink> are available at
http://tldp.org/ldpwn. </para>
<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related
to free software documentation. Write to us at
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
</sect1>
</article>