[SCM] Debian Live manual branch, master, updated. 20090201-1-5-g6db241a

Richard Nelson unixabg at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 21:03:27 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 6db241a9ca5d3e47865b2606b32fc803fe8da144
Author: Richard Nelson <unixabg at gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 7 14:55:19 2009 -0600

    Tag format cleanup, added build instructions for previewing, added name to authors list.

diff --git a/xml/chapters/about/manual.xml b/xml/chapters/about/manual.xml
index 05392bb..7a98865 100644
--- a/xml/chapters/about/manual.xml
+++ b/xml/chapters/about/manual.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 <sect1 id="meta">
 <title>About this manual</title>
 
-<para>
-The main goal of this manual is to serve as a single access point to all documentation related to the Debian Live project. It does not include end-user documentation for using a Debian Live system.</para>
+<para>The main goal of this manual is to serve as a single access point to all documentation related to the Debian Live project. It does not include end-user documentation for using a Debian Live system.</para>
 
 <para>Some of the commands mentioned in the text must be executed with superuser privileges, either by becoming the root user or by using <filename>sudo</filename>. To distinguish between commands which may be executed by an unprivileged user and those requiring superuser privileges, commands are prepended by <command>$</command> or <command>#</command> respectively. This symbol is not a part of the command.</para>
 
@@ -85,6 +84,7 @@ The main goal of this manual is to serve as a single access point to all documen
  <listitem><para>Marco Amadori</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Mathieu Geli</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Matthias Kirschner</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Richard Nelson</para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>Trent W. Buck</para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 
@@ -98,9 +98,15 @@ The main goal of this manual is to serve as a single access point to all documen
 
 <para>The sources for this manual are maintained using the Git version control system. You can checkout the latest copy by executing:</para>
 
-<screen>
-$ git clone git://git.debian.org/git/debian-live/live-manual.git
-</screen>
+<screen>$ git clone git://git.debian.org/git/debian-live/live-manual.git</screen>
+
+<para>Prior to submission of your contribution, please preview your work. To preview the live-manual, ensure the packages needed for building are installed by executing (as root):</para>
+
+<screen>$ apt-get install dblatex docbook-xml docbook-xsl make po4a w3m</screen>
+
+<para>You may build the live-manual from the top level directory of your git checkout by executing:</para>
+
+<screen>$ make build</screen>
 
 </sect2>
 

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