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<tmdoc-title|Introduction on how to contribute>
High quality documentation is both a matter of content and structure. The
content itself has to be as pedagogic as possible for the targeted group of
readers. In order to achieve this, you should not hesitate to provide
enough examples and illustrative screen shots whenever adequate. Although
the documentation is not necessarily meant to be complete, we do aim at
providing relatively stable documentation. In particular, you should have
checked your text against spelling errors.
It is also important that you give your documentation as much structure as
possible, using special markup from the <tmstyle|tmdoc> style file. This
structure can be used in order to automatically compile printable books
from your documentation, to make it suitable for different ways of viewing,
or to make it possible to efficiently search a certain type of information
in the documentation. In particular, you should always provide
<hlink|copyright and license|copyright.en.tm><inactive|> information, as
well as indications on how to <hlink|traverse|traversal.en.tm> your
documentation, if it contains <hlink|many files|file-names.en.tm>.
When selecting the <tmstyle|tmdoc> document style, the top level
<menu|Manual> menu will appear automatically, together with some additional
icons. The most important tags for documentation purposes can be found in
this menu.
<\warning>
Don't forget to select <menu|Document|Language|Your language> for each
translated file. This will cause some content to be translated
automatically, like the menus or some names of keys. Also, we recommend
to run the <TeXmacs> spell checker on each translated document; this also
requires the prior selection of the right document language.
</warning>
<tmdoc-copyright|1998--2002|Joris van der Hoeven>
<tmdoc-license|Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
Documentation License".>
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