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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> 2 & 3<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2005-01-19<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-review">Documents submitted for review</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">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#tldp-contribute">The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-review"></a>1. Documents submitted for review</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Prospective authors for The LDP are usually pointed to the excellent <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/" target="_top">LDP Author Guide</a>. However,
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the guide is big and has a lot of details. David Laywer's <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:8242:200501:claiepedajakajhoajgg" target="_top">Draft of very short Authors Guide</a> is up
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for review, and intends to be a quick guide to new authors.</span></li>
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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">Ari Mäkelä published v2.0.29 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO/" target="_top">Finnish HOWTO</a>, with more details on
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OpenOffice on Debian and the choice of fonts.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The v1.3 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Samba Authenticated Gateway</a>, by Ricardo Alexandre Mattar, has
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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.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Howard Shane documents new models and drivers in v1.6 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Webcam-HOWTO/" target="_top">Webcam HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Getting a bit old-fashioned but still wide-spread: IRC. In his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IRC/" target="_top">IRC HOWTO</a>, Frédéric L.W.
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Meunier explains the basics and lists available Linux applications.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Kurt Swendson asked us to <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/archive/Beowulf-HOWTO.html" target="_top">archive</a> the existing version of the Beowulf
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HOWTO, and replace it with a <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Beowulf-HOWTO/" target="_top">completely revised Beowulf-HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Peter Bieringer did a few grammatical correction and incorporated minor review comment in the IPv6 IPsec section for v0.48 of his <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux + IPv6 HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Bryan Henderson updated the example module for 2.6 kernel and mentions dmesg as a way to see kernel messages in his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/" target=
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"_top">Module HOWTO</a> and also added info about the dangers of unloading modules. There is a link to the LKMPG.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world-news"></a>3. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Linux MIPS HOWTO<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Ralf Bächle announced the replacement of the Linux MIPS HOWTO by a <a href="http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/index.php" target="_top">wiki</a>. He is looking
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for advise on translation of the document.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">XML Editors and conversions<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Saqib Ali is working on a <a href="http://www.xml-dev.com/xml/editors.html" target="_top">list of XML editors</a> categorized by WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM and Text based. Secondary
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categorization is done by dividing the editors in Freeware, OpenSource and commercial groups.</span></p>
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<p>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:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><span class="rss:item">First convert the file to HTML using OO features, then optionally run it through <b class="command">tidy</b> and then through <a href=
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"http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2db/" target="_top">html2db</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">There is a tool which is called <b class="command">OOo2dbk</b> and that can be downloaded <a href=
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"http://www.indesko.com/sites/fr/telechargements/ooo2dbk___du_docbook/view" target="_top">from http://www.indesko.com/sites/fr/telechargements/ooo2dbk___du_docbook/view</a>.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>4. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</h1>
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<p><a href="http://tldp.org/" target="_top">The Linux Documentation Project</a> (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to
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help TLDP, consider joining <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org">discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt> (a low volume discussion mailing list). You can also send
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your suggestions to <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, 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
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mailbox, subscribe to the <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:news-subscribe@en.tldp.org">news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt> mailing list. <a href="http://tldp.org/ldpwn" target="_top">Back
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issues</a> are available at http://tldp.org/ldpwn.</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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