2005 2 & 3 The Linux Documentation Project 2005-01-19 Prospective authors for The LDP are usually pointed to the excellent LDP Author Guide. However, the guide is big and has a lot of details. David Laywer's Draft of very short Authors Guide is up for review, and intends to be a quick guide to new authors. Ari Mäkelä published v2.0.29 of the Finnish HOWTO, with more details on OpenOffice on Debian and the choice of fonts. The v1.3 of the Samba Authenticated Gateway, 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. Howard Shane documents new models and drivers in v1.6 of the Webcam HOWTO. Getting a bit old-fashioned but still wide-spread: IRC. In his IRC HOWTO, Frédéric L.W. Meunier explains the basics and lists available Linux applications. Kurt Swendson asked us to archive the existing version of the Beowulf HOWTO, and replace it with a completely revised Beowulf-HOWTO. Peter Bieringer did a few grammatical correction and incorporated minor review comment in the IPv6 IPsec section for v0.48 of his Linux + IPv6 HOWTO. Bryan Henderson updated the example module for 2.6 kernel and mentions dmesg as a way to see kernel messages in his Module HOWTO and also added info about the dangers of unloading modules. There is a link to the LKMPG. Linux MIPS HOWTO Ralf Bächle announced the replacement of the Linux MIPS HOWTO by a wiki. He is looking for advise on translation of the document. XML Editors and conversions Saqib Ali is working on a list of XML editors categorized by WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM and Text based. Secondary categorization is done by dividing the editors in Freeware, OpenSource and commercial groups. 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: First convert the file to HTML using OO features, then optionally run it through tidy and then through html2db. There is a tool which is called OOo2dbk and that can be downloaded from http://www.indesko.com/sites/fr/telechargements/ooo2dbk___du_docbook/view. The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org (a low volume discussion mailing list). You can also send your suggestions to feedback@en.tldp.org. 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 news-subscribe@en.tldp.org mailing list. Back issues are available at http://tldp.org/ldpwn. 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 feedback@en.tldp.org.