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<listitem><para>Ivan Baldinotti proposes a mini-HOWTO entitled <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6933:200404:ocifmoejbolmmmephfkm">From endnote to LyX</ulink>, which details migration from Endnote or MSWord to Lyx. In vue of <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6930:200404:necbnljcfmmpdjhjdohe">recent discussions whether or not to add a note on LyX to the Author Guide</ulink>, this might be a somewhat delicate issue. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ivan Baldinotti proposes a mini-HOWTO titled <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6933:200404:ocifmoejbolmmmephfkm">From
endnote to LyX</ulink>, which details migration from Endnote or MSWord
to LyX. There were recent discussions on <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6930:200404:necbnljcfmmpdjhjdohe">whether or not to add a note on LyX to the Author Guide</ulink>. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Machtelt Garrels proposes to write somewhat more detailed documentation for the <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6910:200404:ihgbeocagoccoafpbbne">creation of presentations using DocBook XML</ulink>. Eventhough some say this is overkill, she defends the proposal saying that she is looking for two important things: text-mode creation and compatibility with MS Windows users without having to fall back to HTML.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Machtelt Garrels proposes to write detailed documentation for the <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6910:200404:ihgbeocagoccoafpbbne">creation of presentations using DocBook XML</ulink>. Though some say this is overkill, she defends the proposal saying that she is looking for two important things: text-mode creation and compatibility with MS Windows users without having to fall back to HTML.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>As submitted last week, v2.3 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO/">Medicine HOWTO</ulink> is now available. Gerardp Arnaez and Walt Pennington updated the existing links and added new ones to more websites dealing with the subject of Free/Open medical software. They try out most of the software they discuss, and talk about their experiences, difficulties they encountered and so on.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>v2.3 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO/">Medicine HOWTO</ulink> is now available. Gerardp Arnaez and Walt Pennington updated the existing links and added new ones to more websites dealing with the subject of Free/Open medical software. They try out most of the software they discuss, and talk about their experiences, difficulties they encountered and so on.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><quote>Misko's triplet</quote> has been updated again. This includes the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-Radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink>, the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink>. Miroslav Skoric is proud to announce in all three that he published an article about the Yugoslavia IEEE student branch.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><quote>Misko's triplet</quote> has been updated again. This includes the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-Radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink>, the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink>. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>There were a few typos in Daniel Nofftz's <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO/">Athlon Powersaving
HOWTO</ulink>, these have been corrected in v1.1.2.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/">Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO</ulink> guides you through the installation of the Postfix mail transportation agent and the Cyrus IMAP server. Web-cyradm is a graphical web-based user-administration interface to the system; data is stored in a MySQL database. Luc de Louw has a whole chapter about virus- and spam protection. Minor additions and corrections in v1.2.6 of this document.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It was argued on the discuss mailinglist that the <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msp:6944:200404:jicklkoejglmhimkkill">Author
Guide did not fully reflect TLDP procedures</ulink>, so Emma Jane Hogbin
submitted an <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/">Author Guide update</ulink> (v4.2).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>There were some typos in Daniel Nofftz's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO/">Athlon Powersaving HOWTO</ulink>, this is corrected in v1.1.2.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/">Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO</ulink> guides you through the installation of the Postfix mail transportation agent and the Cyrus IMAP server. Web-cyradm is a graphical web-based user-administration interface to the system; data is stored in a MySQL database. Luc de Louw has a whole chapter about virus- and spamprotection. Minor additions and corrections in v1.2.6 of this document.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It was argued on the discuss mailinglist that the <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msp:6944:200404:jicklkoejglmhimkkill">Author Guide did not fully reflect TLDP procedures</ulink>, so Emma Jane Hogbin submitted an <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/">AG update</ulink> (v4.2).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Eric S. Raymond has done some rephrasing in v2.9 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/">The Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO</ulink>, which explains what your PC does and how it is done in non-technical language.</para></listitem>
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<sect1 id="tldp-world">
<title>News in The LDP world</title>
<sect2 id="news-item1">
<title>Removal of the Linux Cookbook</title>
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<para>Removal of the Linux Cookbook:</para>
<para>Michael Stutz let us know that he thinks the Linux Cookbook contains too many errors, bugs and licensing issues. Therefor, as the maintainer of the document, he asked us to remove the Cookbook until he has had time to fix the issues.</para>
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<sect2 id="news-item2">
<title>Anti-spam measures</title>
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<para>Anti-spam measures on the LDP mailing lists:</para>
<para>Sergiusz Pawlowicz announced the start of a test-phase after installing the spamassassin filter on the submit mailinglist on Sunday morning - yes, we work while you sleep/party/have your Sunday-morning soft-boiled egg ;-)</para>
<para>Sergiusz argued before that everybody should have their own E-mail filtering because TLDP didn't have the resources to do it on the server-side, but appearantly he has found the hardware to do it.</para>
<para>Sergiusz argued before that everybody should have their own E-mail filtering because TLDP didn't have the resources to do it on the server-side, but apparently he has found the hardware to do it.</para>
<para>We hope that if the tests go well, the feedback list will also be filtered.</para>
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<sect2 id="news-item3">
<title>News item 3</title>
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<sect1 id="discussions">
<title>Discussions on TLDP lists</title>
<sect2 id="discussion1">
<title>Discussion topic 1</title>
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<sect2 id="discussion2">
<title>Discussion topic 2</title>
<para>.</para>
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<sect2 id="discussion3">
<title>Discussion topic 3</title>
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