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  <volumenum>2005</volumenum>
  <issuenum>19 &amp; 20</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2005-05-18</pubdate>
  <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>

<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>

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<listitem><para>Avi Alkalay, Donovan Rebbechi and Hal Burgiss's document
<ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/" /> on Optimal Use of
Fonts on Linux has been updated for a 10 May 2005 version.  Old
section-based glossary has been converted to real DocBook glossary.
Modernized terms and explanations have been used in the glossary and now
also includes concepts as charsets, Unicode and UTF-8.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/" /> has been updated to v3.4.  A
complete ChangeLog is available at <ulink
url="http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log" />
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>v8.0 of the generated <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lcg/html/" />Linux Consultants Guide has
been submitted by Joshua Drake to The LDP.  </para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="tldp-mirrors">
<title>Mirror information update</title>

<para>The following are the latest additions to our <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html">list of mirrors</ulink>:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para><ulink
url="http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/LDP/">http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/LDP/</ulink>
maintained by IIT Madras in Chennai, India and updated daily.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.davtar.org/LDP" /> maintained by
David Brown in Spanish Fork, UT, USA and updated daily.  </para></listitem>

<listitem><para><ulink url="http://gcwilhelm.dynalias.com/ldp/" />
maintained by Günter Wilhelm in Kirschhausen, Hessen, Germany and
updated daily.  </para></listitem>

<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/ldp/" />
maintained by LDP Keeper in California, USA and updated daily.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.tti-grads.net/ldp" /> maintained
by webmaster@itt-grads.net in Northern Virginia, USA and updated 2 to 3
times a week.  </para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="tldp-contribute">
<title>The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</title>

<para><ulink url="http://tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>
(TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the
GNU/Linux operating system.  If you want to help TLDP, consider joining
<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> (a low volume discussion mailing
list).  You can also send your suggestions to
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.  </para>

<para>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 mailbox, subscribe to the
<email>news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> mailing list.  Back issues are
available at <ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn">http://tldp.org/ldpwn</ulink>
</para>

<para>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
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.  </para>

</sect1>

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