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  <config param="rcsdate" value="$Date: 2009-03-23 00:35:32 -0400 (Mon, 23 Mar 2009) $"/>
  <head>
    <title>Colophon</title>
    <summary>
      Colophon - About the Design and Development, Typography of www.khakbaz.com/javad
    </summary>
    <keywords>Colophon, Typography</keywords>
  </head>
  <section id="beneathHood">
    <title>Beneath the Hood</title>
    <para>
      At the backend, 
      <olink targetdoc="silkpage">SilkPage</olink> 
      custom <acronym>XML</acronym> is used to 
      maintain the site content. <acronym>XSLT</acronym> Style Sheets are used 
      to produce customized markup that is validated <acronym>XHTML</acronym>
      content.
    </para>
   </section>

  <section id="tools">
    <title>Crafting Tools</title>
    <para>
      Table below lists software and hardware (along with my rating) used to 
      publish and maintain this site. 
    </para>
    <table  id="publishingReportCard" frame="none" pgwide="1" role="plain">
      <title>Publishing Report Card</title>
      
      <tgroup cols="3">
	<thead>
	  <row>
	    <entry>Tool</entry>
	    <entry>Grade</entry>
	    <entry>Comment</entry>
	  </row>
	  
	</thead>
	<tbody>
	  <row>
	    <entry>
	      <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org">
		GNU/Linux
	      </ulink>
	    </entry>
	    <entry>A+</entry>
	    
	    <entry>
	      A great set of software tools and utilities (e.g. grep)
	    </entry>
	  </row>
	  <row>
	    <entry>
	      <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">
		Emacs
	      </ulink>
	    </entry>
	    
	    <entry>A+</entry>
              <entry>
		One of the world's most perfect editors
	      </entry>
	  </row>
	  <row>
	    <entry>
	      <ulink url="http://www.vim.org">
		Vim
	      </ulink>
	      
	    </entry>
	    <entry>A</entry>
	    <entry>
	      Plenty fast and great editor
	    </entry>
	  </row>
	  <row>
	    <entry>
	      <ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com">
		Ubuntu
	      </ulink>
	    </entry>
	    <entry>B+</entry>
	    <entry>
	      A good distribution but still needs work
	    </entry>
	  </row>
	  <row>
	    <entry>
	      <ulink url="http://www.dell.com">
		Dell/Latitude
	      </ulink>
              </entry>
	      <entry>B</entry>
	      <entry>
		Nice, but noisy and slow without tons of <acronym>RAM</acronym>
	      </entry>
	  </row>
	  <row>
	    <entry>
	      <olink targetdoc="silkpage">SilkPage</olink>
	    </entry>
	    <entry>B</entry>
	    
	    <entry>
	      Powerful but some rough edges, to be improved in the next 
	      versions
	    </entry>
	  </row>
	</tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>
  </section>
 
  <section id="typography">
    <title>Typography</title>
    <para>
      Typefaces, typography and indentation of this site are controlled with 
      <acronym>CSS</acronym> in an effort to make the text easy to read 
      and maintain. 
    </para>
  </section>

  <sidebar id="publishedBy">

    <title>Ingredients</title>
    
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  <emphasis role="bold">Tool:</emphasis>
	  <olink targetdoc="silkpage">SilkPage</olink>
	</para>
      </listitem>
      
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  <emphasis role="bold">Method:</emphasis>
	  <olink targetdoc="estime">ESTIME</olink>
	</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    
  </sidebar>
 
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