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<h1 class="title"><a name="AEN2"></a>TLDP Weekly News</h1>
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<b>Issue Number :</b> 13<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2003-07-22<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#AEN9">New documents</a></dt>
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<dl>
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<dt>1.1. <a href="#AEN11">Submitted for review</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#AEN24">Updates</a></dt>
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<dt>2.1. <a href="#AEN26">HOWTOs</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#AEN45">Happenings in the LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>3.1. <a href="#AEN47">The LDP Team at Metz 2003</a></dt>
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<dt>3.2. <a href="#AEN51">OpenOffice.org 1.1RC & DocBook</a></dt>
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<dt>3.3. <a href="#AEN56">Linux One Stanza Tips (LOST)</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#feedback">Feedback and Contributions</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN9"></a>1. New documents</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN11"></a>1.1. Submitted for review</h2>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The third revision of Howard Shane's <a href="http://66.25.191.66/docs/HOWTOS/Scanner/index.html" target="_top">Scanner HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The SSL section of the HOWTO on <a href="http://www.xml-dev.com:8080/cocoon/mount/docbook/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO.html#ssl" target="_top">Apache based WebDAV Server with
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LDAP and SSL</a> by Saqib N. Ali.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">After much discussions on the mailing lists, having overcome loads of practical problems, Binh Nguyen submitted the Linux Dictionary. The document has been published as one
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huge section containing an itemized list. <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4751:200307:emedbeghhljpgceecnlp" target="_top">Discussions</a> <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4755:200307:kbpdbbmeddmahbikkfbi" target="_top">are on</a> as to how to make the resource more "usable".</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN24"></a>2. Updates</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN26"></a>2.1. HOWTOs</h2>
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<li><span class="rss:item">If you want to do strange things with strange video hardware, such as working with very high or very low resolutions which are not supported by default in the standard
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XFree86 package, Eric Steven Raymond's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/" target="_top">XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO</a> might be helpful. However, check with <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/obsolete.html" target="_top">Chapter 2</a> first to see whether there's not a more elegant alternative available.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Saqib Ali's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/" target="_top">DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade</a> documentation v2.2.8 now includes
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additional information for Cocoon, the Apache XML publishing framework, which can be integrated with Tomcat, the Java servlet container, to set up your state-of-the-art application server. The
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important thing is to keep your JRE up to date!</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Stephen Darlington's <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Oracle-8-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Oracle 8i for Linux Installation HOWTO</a> is now v1.18.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FBB.html" target="_top">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</a> by Miroslav "Misko" Skoric is at v1.21</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Machtelt Garrels updated the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/" target="_top">Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide</a> to v1.6 with a few corrections
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in the initial chapters.</span></li>
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<hr>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN45"></a>3. Happenings in the LDP world</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN47"></a>3.1. The LDP Team at Metz 2003</h2>
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<p>For those who might be interested, Greg Ferguson has sent in a link to a <a href="http://externe.net/photos/rmll-2003/tldp_team" target="_top">picture of the LDP team</a> on Guylhem Aznar's
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site.</p>
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<hr>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN51"></a>3.2. OpenOffice.org 1.1RC & DocBook</h2>
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<p>Charles Curley installed OpenOffice.org 1.1RC and wrote a very simple test document in OOo's native format and posted his <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4743:200307:fbacfjfdkmpbdhgmbbhp" target="_top">notes</a> regarding the same. While on thread, Chris Karakas <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4746:200307:elfkhmdcfpcflhjkhpgf" target="_top">said that</a> he would document the procedure of writing the entire document in LyX, exporting it to SGML and
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post-processing to convert it to various formats.</p>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN56"></a>3.3. Linux One Stanza Tips (LOST)</h2>
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<p>The <a href="http://lost.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">LOST (Linux One Stanza Tips)</a> project is a series of small Linux related hints and tips and a set of of scripts/programs for interfacing
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the snippets with existing mailers and web pages. The LOST project was born in the Linux-India-Help mailing list in Aug 2001 because the developers of the project felt that as newbies join the list,
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the same queries are floated time and again.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="feedback"></a>4. Feedback and Contributions</h1>
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<p>You can help The Linux Documentation Project by:</p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Reviewing one of the draft versions of the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html" target="_top">documents in progress</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Picking up one of the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html" target="_top">unmaintained documents</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Providing assistance with <a href="http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html" target="_top">markup</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Purchasing a <a href="http://www.hackerthreads.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.100.exe/scstore/tldpstore.htm?E+scstore" target="_top">TLDP Shirt</a>. A part of the amount paid would
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be donated to the LDP.</span></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any HOWTO? Know of any articles about the LDP published in
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newspapers or magazines? You can update us by sending in links and information at <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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<p>LDP Weekly News is edited by Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</p>
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