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<h1 class="title"><a name="AEN2"></a>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</h1>
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<b>Issue Number :</b> 14<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-04-07<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-proposed">New document proposals</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#tldp-world">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#feedback">HOWTO contribute to TLDP</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-proposed"></a>1. New document proposals</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ivan Baldinotti proposes a mini-HOWTO titled <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6933:200404:ocifmoejbolmmmephfkm" target="_top">From endnote to LyX</a>, which
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details migration from Endnote or MSWord to LyX. There were recent discussions on <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6930:200404:necbnljcfmmpdjhjdohe" target="_top">whether or not to add
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a note on LyX to the Author Guide</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Machtelt Garrels proposes to write detailed documentation for the <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6910:200404:ihgbeocagoccoafpbbne" target="_top">creation of
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presentations using DocBook XML</a>. 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
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Windows users without having to fall back to HTML.</span></li>
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<p>Join our <a href="http://tldp.org/mailinfo.html#maillists" target="_top">discuss mailinglist</a> or mail these people directly to let them know what you think!</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">v2.3 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO/" target="_top">Medicine HOWTO</a> is now available. Gerardp Arnaez and Walt Pennington updated the existing links
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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
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encountered and so on.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><span class="QUOTE">"Misko's triplet"</span> has been updated again. This includes the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html" target="_top">FBB Packet-Radio BBS
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mini-HOWTO</a>, the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html" target="_top">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</a> and the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html" target="_top">LILO
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mini-HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">There were a few typos in Daniel Nofftz's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO/" target="_top">Athlon Powersaving HOWTO</a>, these have been corrected in
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v1.1.2.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/" target="_top">Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO</a> guides you through the installation of the Postfix mail
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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
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about virus- and spam protection. Minor additions and corrections in v1.2.6 of this document.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">It was argued on the discuss mailinglist that the <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msp:6944:200404:jicklkoejglmhimkkill" target="_top">Author Guide did not fully
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reflect TLDP procedures</a>, so Emma Jane Hogbin submitted an <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/" target="_top">Author Guide update</a> (v4.2).</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Eric S. Raymond has done some rephrasing in v2.9 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/" target="_top">The Unix and Internet
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Fundamentals HOWTO</a>, which explains what your PC does and how it is done in non-technical language.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world"></a>3. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Removal of the Linux Cookbook:<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">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
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remove the Cookbook until he has had time to fix the issues.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Anti-spam measures on the LDP mailing lists:<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">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
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sleep/party/have your Sunday-morning soft-boiled egg ;-)</span></p>
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<p>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
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it.</p>
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<p>We hope that if the tests go well, the feedback list will also be filtered.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="feedback"></a>4. HOWTO contribute to TLDP</h1>
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<p>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 <tt class=
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"email"><<a href="mailto:discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org">discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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<p>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
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<tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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<p>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</p>
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