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APPENDIX A <BR>

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The Linux <BR>

Documentation <BR>

Project



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<H3><A NAME="1739_ 7">

IN THIS APPENDIX

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<UL>

<LI>     Overview 608

<LI>     Getting Involved 608

<LI>     Current Projects 608

<LI>     Glossary and Global Index 609

<LI>     Documentation Conventions 609

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<P>This appendix describes the goals and current status of the Linux Documentation Project,

including names of projects, volunteers, FTP sites, and so on.

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Overview

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<P>The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) is working on developing good, reliable docs for

the Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in taking care of all of

the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online docs (man pages,

texinfo docs, and so on) to printed manuals covering topics such as installing, using, and running Linux. The

LDP is essentially a loose team of volunteers with no real central organization; anyone who is

interested in helping is welcome to join in the effort. We feel that working together and agreeing

on the direction and scope of Linux documentation is the best way to go, to reduce problems

with conflicting efforts; for example, two people writing two books on the same aspect of

Linux wastes someone's time along the way.

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<P>The LDP has set out to produce the canonical set of Linux online and printed

documentation. Because our docs will be freely available (as per the GNU GPL; see the &quot;Copyright

License&quot; section in Appendix C, &quot;The Linux Documentation Project Copyright License&quot;) and

distributed on the Net, we are able to easily update the documentation to stay on top of the

many changes in the Linux world. We're also talking with a few companies about possibly

publishing the LDP manuals after more of them become available. (A few smaller companies are

printing and distributing LDP manuals even now; more on that later.) If you're interested in

publishing any of the LDP works, see the section &quot;Publishing LDP Manuals&quot;

in Appendix C.

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Getting Involved

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<P>To get involved with the LDP, join the

linux-doc activists mailing list. To do so, send mail

to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu. with the line subscribe

linux-doc in the message body (not the subject). This will add you to the mailing list.

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<P>Of course, you'll also need to get in touch with the coordinator of whatever LDP projects

you're interested in working on; see the next section.

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<H3><A NAME="1739_ 10">

Current Projects

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<P>For a list of current projects, see the

<a href="http://www.linux.org">http://www.linux.org</A> Web site. The best way to get

involved with one of these projects is to pick up the current version of the manual and

send revisions, editions, or suggestions to the coordinator.

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<H3><A NAME="1739_ 11">

Glossary and Global Index

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<P>A glossary of terms and an index for the entire set of LDP manuals is planned. I don't

remember who's putting this together; please remind me.

:) This should be comprehensive as well as a reference. FTP sites for LDP works can be found at

sunsite.unc.edu in the directory /pub/Linux/docs. LDP manuals are found in

/pub/Linux/docs/LDP, HOWTOs, and other documentation found in

/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. Various ALPHA docs can be found at

tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/LDP.

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<H3><A NAME="1739_ 12">

Documentation Conventions

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<P>This section outlines the conventions that are currently used by LDP manuals. If you are

interested in writing another manual using different conventions, please let us know of your

plans first. We'd like the LDP manuals to have a common look and feel, and this is

implemented with a LaTeX style file.

</P>



<P>The set of printed manuals (that is, everything but the man pages) are formatted using

LaTeX. The primary objective is to have PRINTED, not online, manuals. The LaTeX tool

(currently under development by Olaf Kirch) can be used to generate plain ASCII (and later,

texinfo) from the LaTeX source.

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<P>Please don't mail me saying that I shouldn't be using LaTeX for the LDP manuals; well

over 500 pages of material have already been written in LaTeX, and we're not about to

convert. Many a flame war has been sparked over this issue, but it's a done deal. New manuals

don't necessarily need to be written using LaTeX, but you should use the same conventions and

look as we have implemented with the current manuals.

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<P>The printed manuals should use Michael K. Johnson's

linuxdoc.sty style sheet and documentation conventions, found in the file

linuxdoc.tar.z under the alpha directory. We're

trying to achieve a unified look in the manuals, for the sake of both consistency and portability

(in this way, we can easily change the look and feel of the manuals by changing

linuxdoc.sty), so that all of the authors/editors are on common ground using the same style sheet.

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<P>The LDP license/copyright should be used to copyright all works. It's a liberal copyleft like

the GPL, but applies to printed documents and protects the LDP manuals from publication

without our permission. The license is printed in Appendix C.

</P>



<P>The copyright for each manual should be in the name of the head writer or coordinator for

the project. The Linux Documentation Project isn't a formal entity and shouldn't be used to

copyright the docs.

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