Blender Documentation Volume II - Reference Guide: Last modified July 08 2004 S68
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# How to contribute

First of all you must install a full DockBook environment to test and translate your XML to HTML or PDF or whatever. Then you must set up a CVS client.

If you are working in a UNIX environment of any flavour, and Linux in particular, these tools are there by default or are anyway easily recoverable in your installation CD or on the Internet.

For Windows too there are free software packages to access a CVS server and handle DocBook XML, but these need to be downloaded from the net.

Once you have a full CVS and DocBook installed you can download the complete Blender documentation XML and work on it!

If you would like to contribute changes, additions or corrections to the Blender documentation, we prefer to receive them as patches to the DocBook/XML files. Assuming some basic knowledge about CVS usage, this is easy. Here's how you do it:

First of all, before you start working, check out the latest CVS tree and work on those files directly. Changes are made to the CVS repository almost daily and you don't want to work on outdated files. Updates are fast as only the changes are downloaded to your workstation.

When you're ready, you issue the following command:

`cvs diff -u -w BlenderManual.xml > BlenderManual.xml.diff`

The differences between your local copy and the copy in the CVS repository will be stored in `BlenderManual.xml.diff`. If you want to submit multiple patches, please do a diff for each file separately and send them to the DocBoard mailing list.

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