[Discuss] Linux Brochure Project version 1.3.0 has been released

[Alan W. Irwin]

The Linux Brochure Project (LBP) version 1.3.0 has been released. LBP is a
GPLed Linux advocacy and publicity project which documents key Linux
information in a standard-size brochure (two sides of a single letter-size
or A4 sheet of paper which is Z- or C-folded into the six mini-pages of the
brochure).

* The LaTeX files have been modified so they work well with both traditional
   e-TeX and next-generation pdfeTeX versions of LaTeX. Our thanks to Ryan
   Underwood for bringing this issue to our attention and testing the updated
   LaTeX files.

* Build now includes a pdftohtml step to generate an html version of the
   brochure language that is suitable for BabelFish translations and which
   looks much better than the prior html results produced with latex2html.

* Brochure links have been completely reviewed and updated.

We recommend an immediate upgrade to LBP-1.3.0.

For more details about LBP see: http://lbproject.sourceforge.net/.

Note to list members:

You can obtain the "VLUG" version of the brochure using

wget http://lbproject.sourceforge.net/vlug_ca_linux_brochure_watermarked_landscape.pdf

and you can review the result using xpdf (which unlike gv allows you to
follow links).

Please, let me know if you spot any problems or if you have suggestions for
rewording or additional URL's.  Note, however, that we are cramped for space
so adding URL's mean you also have to subtract an equivalent number and
similarly for adding words (modulo line wrap).

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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