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<p>This document is currently available in the following
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<li class="listitem"><p><a class="ulink" href="http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/guide/download/netbsd-en.pdf.gz" target="_top">gzip'd PDF</a></p></li>
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<p>This guide was born as a collection of sparse notes that
      Federico Lupi, the original author of the NetBSD Guide, wrote
      mostly for himself.  When he realized that they could be useful
      to other NetBSD users he started collecting them and created the
      first version of the guide using the
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      (e.g. HTML and PostScript/PDF), he made the
      <span class="quote">&#8220;<span class="quote">mistake</span>&#8221;</span> of moving to SGML/DocBook, which is the
      current format of the sources.  Maintainership was picked up by
      the NetBSD project and its developers later, and the format was
      changed to XML/DocBook later due to better tools and slightly
      more knowhow on customisations. </p>
<p>The following open source tools were used to write and format
      the guide:</p>
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<li class="listitem"><p>the <span class="application">vi</span> editor which ships with
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<li class="listitem"><p>the <span class="application">libxslt</span> parser from GNOME for
	  transforming XML/DocBook into HTML.</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>the <span class="application">TeX</span> system from the NetBSD
	  packages collection.
	  TeX is used as a backend to produce the PS and PDF
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<li class="listitem"><p>the <span class="application">tgif</span> program for drawing
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