Added an id for the API reference <part>. Added the FDL <legalnotice>.

2000-11-29  Federico Mena Quintero  <federico@helixcode.com>

	* evolution-devel-guide.sgml: Added an id for the API reference <part>.
	Added the FDL <legalnotice>.
	Added the preface and toplevel reference entities.
	Added entities for Evolution, Wombat, and Camel.
	Added an appendix for the GNU FDL.

	* preface.sgml: New file with the introduction to the Evolution
	Developer's Guide.

	* reference.sgml: Split the toplevel reference part into its own
	file.

	* fdl.sgml: Added the GNU Free Documentation License.

	* calendar/evolution-calendar.sgml: Added an id for the <part>.

	* calendar/public-reference.sgml: Added an id for the <reference>.
	Moved this file over from calendar/reference.sgml.

	* Makefile.am (local_entities): Added a list of the SGML files
	that define entities for inclusion in the toplevel document.  This
	way we can track documentation file dependencies down to all
	levels.
	(html/index.html): Made the toplevel document depend on
	$(local_entities).  Also, removed the "html" target and put its
	contents directly here; this way we avoid having .PHONY targets.
	(EXTRA_DIST): Removed the evolution_devel_guideDATA; it made no
	sense.
	(content_files): Added preface.sgml and reference.sgml.

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+  <preface id="introduction">
+    <title>Introduction</title>
+
+    <para>
+      This is the &Evolution; Developer's Guide or programming guide
+      for the &Evolution; groupware suite.  If you are a programmer
+      and you wish to use &Evolution;'s functionality from your own
+      applications or if you wish to modify the &Evolution; core code,
+      you should read this guide.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      If you are an end-user of &Evolution; you do not need to read
+      this guide; please read the &Evolution; User's Guide instead.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      This guide contains the information you need to know to do the
+      following:
+
+      <itemizedlist>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Write applications that use &Evolution;'s data
+	    repositories via the &Wombat; personal information server.
+	    Examples of this would be a <application>GNOME
+	    Panel</application> applet that displays today's
+	    appointments, or a telephone dialer application that uses
+	    the contents of the &Evolution; Addressbook.
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Write applications that use the &Camel; mail library.
+	    This includes extending &Evolution;'s own mail component
+	    to perform additional functions.
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Write new components for the &Evolution; Shell.  Instead
+	    of writing a stand-alone application, you can provide your
+	    users with the benefit of having integrated views of their
+	    data from within Evolution.
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Write new modules for the &Evolution; Executive Summary.
+	    This allows you to present commonly-accessed information
+	    in a convenient fashion directly in the &Evolution; Shell.
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Modify the core &Evolution; code to add new features or
+	    change its architecture.
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+
+    <sect1 id="organization">
+      <title>Organization of this Guide</title>
+
+      <para>
+	This guide is organized in two big sections.  The first is a
+	programming guide, which consists of one part for each one of
+	&Evolution;'s components:  there are separate parts for the
+	calendar, the addressbook, the mailer, the executive summary,
+	and the shell.  Each part gives a description of the
+	architecture of its corresponding component, and also gives
+	information about the component's internal architecture and
+	some implementation details.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+	The second section of this guide is a reference guide for
+	&Evolution;'s programming interfaces.  We have separated these
+	into public and private interfaces.  The public ones are those
+	that most people will need to use when writing extensions or
+	third-party components; the private interfaces are those used
+	internally in &Evolution;.  Even if you do not intend to
+	modify the &Evolution; core code, it may be useful to know a
+	bit about the way it is organized internally.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+	&Evolution; is free software, and we want you as a programmer
+	to make the most of it.  We have provided many useful
+	interfaces that you can use in your own applications.  Still,
+	we want you to view &Evolution; as a framework for building
+	groupware applications, and this may occasionally involve
+	making changes to its core code.  We want you to learn from
+	&Evolution;'s design because we think it marks an important
+	milestone in the development of large-scale free software
+	applications.  We want you to modify it as you see fit.  Free
+	software gives you this freedom, and we want the whole world
+	to benefit from it.
+      </para>
+    </sect1>
+  </preface>
+
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