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Documents Available in Plucker FormatThe Linux Documentation Project has just added support for another documentation format: the "Plucker" format. Plucker is a GPL-licensed offline HTML viewer for users of Palm-based PDAs (such as the Palm and Handspring Visor series). Plucker supports compression, hypertext links, clickable images, italics, bold, varying-sized fonts, multiple databases, and configurable display parameters and stylus options. Plucker also includes programs to compress HTML documents into the Plucker format, essentially a compressed form of HTML. This kind of compression is necessary on PDAs, which have limited amounts of memory. More information, and the Plucker software, is available at http://plkr.org. Users of these PDAs can now download various LDP documents from the web, push their base's "synchronize" button, and suddenly have those LDP documents available on their PDAs wherever they are. This saves users from having to install and use Plucker's compression programs (including figuring out what options work best for the LDP). Opening a document on the PDA shows that document's summary and a hypertext table of contents; users can use the stylus to go immediately to the section they need, or read the whole document if they wish. Once the documents are in one PDA, users can also exchange them with other PDAs by "beaming" them (using infrared connections). Supporting plucker will hopefully encourage the use of GNU/Linux and free software/open source software (FS/OSS), since by making it easier to put LDP documents in PDAs, the documents should become more widespread. Hopefully making "plucker" format available will also discourage the use of proprietary formats for FS/OSS related documentation, which has already happened in a few cases. Thanks go to David A. Wheeler dwheeler@dwheeler.com for helping us out with testing, and to our HOWTO Coordinator, Greg Ferguson, for doing the implementation. New Documents
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Unmaintained DocumentsThese documents have been abandoned by their maintainers and many of them have not been updated in some time. If you're willing to become the maintainer for one of them, please join the LDP discussion list at lists.linuxdoc.org and post a message indicating your interest.
About the LDPThe Linux Documentation Project is developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. This includes the creation of HOWTOs and Guides, and collaboration with other documentation groups. If you've always wanted to help Linux reach Total World Domination(tm), but you're not a programmer, there's still something you can do. Help the LDP! The LDP keeps a page of resources for authors at http://www.linuxdoc.org/authors/. Contributions are always welcome. For more LDP Weekly News, go to http://www.linuxdoc.org/ldpwn/ |