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<p><font size="-1">In order to expedite the processing and quality
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of Linux<font color="red">Focus</font> articles we have
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compiled the following guidelines. Authors wishing to submit
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articles for publication are encourage to follow them.</font></p>
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<center><H1>Guidelines for Authors</h1></center>
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We recommend to edit your articles with a plain text editor.
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A WYSIWYG HTML editor may also do the job but produces
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usually "ugly" HTML files with lot of &nbsp; and <BR>
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in it.
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</li>
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<li>No matter how you edit your article your should always use our
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template (<a href="../English/articles/template.meta.html">template.meta.html</a>).
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This is a simple HTML file with some structure in it. After the
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heading ArticleBody you can just write your article as you like.
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</li>
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<li>
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If the subject of the article favors it, we encourage the
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inclusion of illustrations and figures in the body of the
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article. Authors are free to use diagrams to illustrate ideas,
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organize concepts or to motivate readers.
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</li>
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<li>
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Every article in our magazine brings a picture of the author
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and a small personal biography. The biography can be a few paragraphs
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long and its goal its to give authors a chance to talk about
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their history, professional background, hobbies, relation to
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Linux, etc. This information should be included in the template
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after the heading AboutTheAuthor. The picture of the author
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goes after AuthorImage.
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</li>
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<li>
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Before writing a new article think a bit about the structure of
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your article and the message that you would like to send to the
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reader. The best articles are understandable for new Linux users and
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and still interesting to people with experience.
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<li>
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An article is a window to a given field of knowledge. Do not
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leave that door closed. Include references at the end of
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the article, both to Web publications (URLs) and to
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printed sources.
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</li>
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<li>
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Articles can be submitted to the editor of your own
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language or directly to the editor-in-chief (currently this is
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<a href="mailto:guido.socher@linuxfocus.org">guido.socher@linuxfocus.org</a>
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). The <a href="../common/lfteam.html">lf-team</a> page has
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a list of contact persons with e-mail addresses.
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Preferably your article and the included images, code examples
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etc... should be packed together in a tar.gz archive.
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The command to do this under Linux is:<br>
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<tt>tar zcvf myart.tar.gz file1 file1 file3...</tt>
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All our articles are published under the terms of the
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Gnu Free Documentation License
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(see <a href="../common/copy.html">copy right page</a>).
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By sending in an article to LinuxFocus for publication
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you certify that you agree to these terms.
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<p>Happy editing and thanks for you time and creativity!
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We look forward to receive your article.</P>
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