Re: Newbie wants to get involved!

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

Warning: GDP handbook describes using Docbook 3.1 SGML; we are right
now moving to Docbook XML 4.1. Thus, Handbook is actually outdated and
will be updated shortly. In the meanwhile, you can take a look at the
short manual on getting DocBook 4.1 XMl installed on your system which
you can find at 
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~kirillov/dbxml/

Sasha

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 06:15:49PM +0100, Daniel Rees wrote:
> At 05:23 27/10/2001, Eric Baudais wrote:
> >Daniel-
> >It's great you want to help!  The first thing you need is to install docbook,
> >docbook-stylesheets, libxslt and libxml2 on your Linux system.  All our
> >documentation is written in DocBook.  There are some good tutorials on the
> >web about DocBook.  Some must reads are the GNOME Handbook and the GNOME
> >Documentation Style Guide.  They are located at
> >http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/resources.html
> 
> I've zapped over to ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com and I'm downloading the 
> files in docbook-tools, as mentioned in the Handbook. I've also found 
> libxslt and libxml2 on rpmfind.net, which I will install with the RedHat 
> 7.2 disks I am waiting for.
> 
> >Some projects that need docs people are: Gnumeric (contact me or jody), GIMP
> >(contact Rebecca or #gimp), and probably others.  Just ask around.
> 
> Gnumeric sounds interesting - otherwise I guess I just e-mail people listed 
> on the Doctable asking if they need help?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> Daniel Rees
> dan dwrees co uk
> 
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