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  <preface id="introduction">
    <title>About this Book</title> 
      <sect1 id="organization">
        <title>Organization</title>
      <para>
        This book is divided into two parts, with several
        appendices. The first part is a <link linkend="usage">guided
        tour</link>&mdash; it will explain how to use
        <application>Evolution</application>.  If you are new to
        <application>Evolution</application> or to groupware in
        general, this section is for you. The second section, covering
        <link linkend="config">configuration</link>, is targeted at
        more advanced users, but anyone who wants to change the way
        <application>Evolution</application> looks or acts can benefit
        from reading it.  
      </para>
      </sect1>

      <sect1 id="typography">
        <title>Typographical conventions</title>
    <para>
          In this book, we'll mark some words with special typography:
          <simplelist>
        <member><application>Applications</application></member>
        <member><command>Commands</command> you type at the command line</member>
        <member><guilabel>Labels</guilabel> for </member>

            <member> Menu selections look like this:
                       <menuchoice>
                          <guimenu>Menu</guimenu>
                          <guisubmenu>Submenu</guisubmenu> 
                          <guimenuitem>Menu Item</guimenuitem>
                     </menuchoice>
            </member>
        <member><guibutton>Buttons</guibutton> you can
            click</member> <member><userinput>Anything you type
            in</userinput></member> <member><computeroutput>Text
            output from a computer</computeroutput></member>
      <member><glossterm linkend="apx-gloss">Words</glossterm>
            that are defined in the <xref linkend="apx-gloss">.</member>
      </simplelist>
      <tip id="example-tip">
          <title>Example Tip</title>
          <para>
        Tips and bits of extra information will look like
        this.
          </para>
        </tip>

      <example>
        <title>Example Example</title>
        <para>
          This is what an example looks like. 
        </para>
      </example>

        <warning id="example-warning">
          <title>Example Warning</title>
          <para>
        This is what a warning looks like.
          </para>
      </warning>
        </para>
    </sect1>
</preface>