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  <!ENTITY robby "Robby Stephenson">
  <!ENTITY email "robby@periapsis.org">
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  <!ENTITY maillist "http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/tellico-users">
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  <!ENTITY loan-dialog "<interface>Loan Dialog</interface>">
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<releaseinfo>1.3</releaseinfo>

<title>The &appname; Handbook</title>

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<author>
<firstname>Robby</firstname>
<surname>Stephenson</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>&email;</email></address>
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<year>2001</year>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
<year>2004</year>
<year>2005</year>
<year>2006</year>
<year>2007</year>
<year>2008</year>
<holder>&robby;</holder>
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This document is a handbook for using &appname;, a collection manager software application.
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<keyword>tellico</keyword>
<keyword>book</keyword>
<keyword>bibliography</keyword>
<keyword>movie</keyword>
<keyword>collection</keyword>
<keyword>database</keyword>
<keyword>catalog</keyword>
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<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

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<sect1 id="tellico-intro">
<title>&appname;</title>

<para>
&appname; is a program for managing collections. It began as a simple
book collection manager, and has expanded to include default
collection templates for bibliographies, comic books, videos, music,
coins, stamps, trading cards, video games, wines, board games, and file listings.
In addition, custom collections can be built for any other type of collectibles.
</para>

<sect2 id="what-tellico-is">
<title>What &appname; Is</title>

<para>
&appname; keeps track of the items in a collection, and offers
an easy way to enter data for each entry. It provides several
field types, and allows for an unlimited number of
user-defined fields. The entries in a collection may be grouped by any
field for easy organization, and customizable views show as much or as
little information as you like.
</para>

<para>
Loans may be tracked, with optional integration with &korganizer;. Collections may be
imported or exported using a variety of formats, to allow for easy exchange
or publication of data.
</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="what-tellico-is-not">
<title>What &appname; Is Not</title>

<para>
&appname; is not an audio or video player. It does not provide
facilities for reading or modifying multimedia files. It also does
not provide any image-editing functionality. Although &appname; has some
functionality for managing bibliography lists, it is not a full-blown
bibliographic reference manager. &appname; also does not pretend to have
all the capabilities of a full-fledged relational database, 
</para>

<para>
As somewhat of a disclaimer, &appname; is a hobby for the author, and no
guarantees are made about its functionality, usefullness, or otherwise. It's
very far from being a professional software package. More information is included
in the <link linkend="gnu-fdl">license declaration</link>.
</para>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="terminology">
<title>Terminology</title>

<sect2 id="collections">
<title>Collections</title>
<para>
In &appname;, a collection is the document. Only one collection exists in each &appname;
file. A collection contains any number of <link linkend="fields">fields</link> and
<link linkend="entries">entries</link>. &appname; supports 12 specific collection types by
default: books, bibliographic entries, comic books, videos, music, trading cards, coins, stamps,
video games, wines, board games, and file listings. In addition, an empty generic collection
template is available for any other type of collectibles or lists.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="fields">
<title>Collection Fields</title>
<para>
Each collection may have an unlimited number of fields. &appname; supports eleven types of fields,
which allow for a range of different data. The fields can be edited with the
<link linkend="fields-dialog">&fields-dialog;</link> and are explained further in the
<link linkend="field-types">Field Types</link> section.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="entries">
<title>Collection Entries</title>

<para>
An entry is the basic record in &appname;. Each entry contains a single value for each field in
the collection. A collection may have an unlimited number of entries, in theory, although since
the whole collection is always resident in memory, too many entries could slow down the application.
</para>

<para>
&appname; has been tested with a collection of 10,000 entries, and the speed was satisfactory.
However, if many large images are included in the collection, the loading and processing time
does slow down greatly. Performance can be improved by having &appname; store images separate from
the data file itself, either in the application-specific directory or a directory relative to
the data file. More information can be found in the
<link linkend="configuration">configuration section</link>.
</para>

</sect2>

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&details-chapter;

&importing-exporting-chapter;

&advanced-chapter;

&configuration-chapter;

&hacking-chapter;

&faqs-chapter;

&menus-chapter;

<chapter id="credits">

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<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>
&appname;
</para>
<para>
Program copyright 2001-2008 &robby; <email>&email;</email>
</para>

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<para>
Documentation copyright 2001-2008 &robby; <email>&email;</email>
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url="freebsd-doc-license.html">FreeBSD Documentation License</ulink>, if you so choose. If you wish to allow use of your version of this content only under the terms of the FreeBSD Documentation License, and not to allow others to use your version of this file under the terms of the GFDL, indicate your decision by deleting the GFDL notice and and replacing it with the notice and other provisions required by the FreeBSD Documentation License. If you do not delete the GFDL notice above, a recipient may use your version of this file under the terms of either the GFDL or the FreeBSD Documentation License.</para>

</chapter>

<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-tellico">
<title>How to obtain &appname;</title>

<para>
The &appname; home page can be found at
<ulink url="&homepage;">&homepage;</ulink>.
Updates and news can be found there.</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>

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In order to successfully use &appname;, you need &kde; 3.3.1.
&appname; uses about 5 megabytes of memory to run, but this may vary
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&kde; can be found at <ulink url="http://www.kde.org">the &kde; home page</ulink>.
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<sect1 id="compilation">
<title>Compilation and Installation</title>

<para>
In order to compile and install &appname; on your system, type the following
in the base folder of the archive, where the third step must be done as
root if you are installing in a system folder:

<screen width="40">
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>./configure <option>--enable-final</option> <option>--disable-debug</option></userinput>
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>make</userinput>
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>make install</userinput>
</screen>
</para>

<para>Since &appname; uses autoconf and automake you should not have
any trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report
them to the the author at <email>&email;</email>.</para>

<sect2 id="compilation-ooo">
<title>Compiling With OpenOffice.org</title>
<para>
&appname; uses a special plugin for communicating with OpenOffice.org, which is not compiled by default.
The Software Development Kit, available from <ulink url="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/">
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/</ulink>, is required.

<screen width="40">
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>./configure <option>--enable-ooo</option> <option>--with-ooo-dir</option>=<filename class="directory">/usr/lib/openoffice</filename> <option>--with-ooo-sdk-dir</option>=<filename class="directory">/usr/lib/openoffice/SDK</filename></userinput>
</screen>

You'll need to use the correct locations of the OpenOffice.org libraries and SDK, of course.
</para>

<para>
In addition, some distributions may require you to modify the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file
or add a configuration file to the <filename class="directory">/etc/ld.so.conf.d</filename> directory. Check
to see if the OpenOffice.org plugin works without any changes first. If it doesn't, try editing
<filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> and adding the location of the OpenOffice.org libraries, the same as
you used for the <filename>configure</filename> script.
For additional help, use the <ulink url="&maillist;">&appname; Mailing List</ulink>
</para>
</sect2>

</sect1>

</appendix>

&documentation.index;

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