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<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="LinuxDoc-Tools 0.9.21">
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<TITLE>: Introduction </TITLE>
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<LINK HREF="Howtos-with-LinuxDoc-2.html" REL=next>
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<LINK HREF="Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html#toc1" REL=contents>
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<H2><A NAME="s1">1.</A> <A HREF="Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html#toc1">Introduction </A></H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1</A> <A HREF="Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html#toc1.1">If you want to start immediately</A>
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</H2>
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<P>To only learn LinuxDoc, skip to
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<A HREF="Howtos-with-LinuxDoc-5.html#learn_">Learning LinuxDoc</A>. If you want to start writing immediately, then you may try a
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"fill in the blanks" template which will generate LinuxDoc formatted
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output.
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<A HREF="http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/The_LDP_HOWTO_Generator.html">The LDP HOWTO Generator</A>. You may use this to just start
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writing your Howto and then finish it later by using a text editor on
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your PC.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2</A> <A HREF="Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html#toc1.2">Copyright and License</A>
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</H2>
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<P> Copyright (c) 2001-7 by David S. Lawyer. You may freely copy and
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distribute (sell or give away) this document. You may create a
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derivative work and distribute it provided that you license it in the
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spirit of this license and give proper credits. The author would like
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to receive your comments, suggestions, and plans for any derivative
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work based on this.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.3">1.3</A> <A HREF="Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html#toc1.3">Should you write a HOWTO ?</A>
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</H2>
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<P> Do you know things about Linux for which no good free
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documentation is available and which would be useful to others? Even
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if you don't know the subject well, you can still write about it if
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you're eager, willing, and able to learn more about it and have the
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time to do it. Can you write clearly using a word processor or
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editor? Do you want to help thousands of others and let them read
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what you write at no cost to them? Once you've written a document,
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are you willing to receive email suggestions from readers and
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selectively use this info for improving your HOWTO? Would you like to
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have your writings be available on hundreds of websites throughout the
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world? If you can answer yes to these, then you're encouraged to
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write something for the Linux Documentation Project (LDP). But be
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warned that it may take more time than you expected.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.4">1.4</A> <A HREF="Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html#toc1.4">Why I wrote this</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Why did I write this when there is already an "LDP Authoring
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Guide"? Well, the LDP guide is a long and detailed work. If you want
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to get started quickly, you need something much simpler and shorter.</P>
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<P>Thanks to Matt Welsh for his example.sgml file which I used as a major
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source of info for the example sections.</P>
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