discuss: A New Finnish HOWTO
Subject:
Re: A New Finnish HOWTO
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jan 2001 20:32:55 -0000
Message-Id: <10101241528.ZM27650@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Jan 24, 10:05pm, Ari Makela wrote:
> Subject: A New Finnish HOWTO
>
> Hello,
>
> I have written a new Finnish HOWTO which is intended to replace Pekka
> Taipales Finnish HOWTO 1.1f which dates from 1996 and is quite
> outdated.
>
> There's a problem, however: I don't know DocBook. I wrote the original
> version in plain text and I got fixes and suggestions from Finnish
> Linux users in newsgroup sfnet.atk.linux. To make it quickly useable I
> rewrote it in perlpod and produced text and HTML -versions from
> it. The result can be found on <URL:
> http://www.iki.fi/hauva/finnish-howto/ >.
>
> The document derives mainly from Danish HOWTO by Jensen and my own
> experience. I've asked both Jensen and Taipale that it's ok for me to
> write the new howto.
>
> I was a complete idiot in the writing process because I only today
> noticed that LDP accepts only DocBook. So the next step is to rewrite
> it again. Before I have done that the HOWTO is available on my own
> home page.
If you don't hear from anyone on this list offering to help,
you might want to contact someone on our volunteers list.
Perhaps someone will help you to mark-up the book into DocBook:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/authors/vlist.html
I just noticed there are a ton of people offering their services
(I haven't checked that list in a long time).
r,
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