Browsing Albanian translation

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If everything checks out okay, you can build the PDF:

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This will generate the file <tt>ubuntu-manual.pdf</tt>, which is the English manual in PDF format. To make the manual in another language use the following command:

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where <tt>LANG</tt> is the language code. (See the <tt>po/</tt> directory for a list of supported languages.) This requires a <tt>.po</tt> file (<i>e.g.</i>, <tt>nl.po</tt>) in the given language in the subdirectory <tt>po/</tt>.

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Checking Prerequisites

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To make sure you have all the prerequisites installed, run the install-pkgs.sh script (located in the ubuntu-manual/pkgs/ directory).

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The script will check for the required Ubuntu packages, TeX packages, and fonts.

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Start working with the TeX files

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The first priority for authors is to write the content of the manual, but the manual isn't just a simple PDF. Authors should use LaTeX language to mark up the text. You don't have to learn the whole language to do your job as an author; there are specific tags that are used. Our <a href="http://files.ubuntu-manual.org/style-guide.pdf">style guide</a> (PDF) should teach you all you need to know about LaTeX.

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If you have trouble using LaTeX, it's okay. An editor will do the mark up of your files.

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Compiling the manual