\chapter{About the TRD upgrade TDR}

The upgrade TDR project will provide the TDR part for the upgrade Technical Design Report of ALICE that is scheduled to be ready in late summer 2013.
The present Latex project is supposed to start from a collection of material and initial concepts and to develop into the full TRD contribution to the upgrade TDR.

\section{Editorial Remarks}

This document is hosted in the TRD subversion repository: \\
\url{http://alice.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/svn/trd/utdr}.

You can browse the files in a web-browser at:\\
\url{http://alice.physi.uni-heidelbergde/viewvc/}

Whoever wants to contribute to this document can download it via svn,
edit and then commit the changes. The procedure is as follows:
\begin{description}
\item[checkout] 
\verb+svn checkout http://alice.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/svn/trd/utdr <dir>+
where \verb+<dir>+ is the directory where it gets downloaded to. 
\item[Edit] Now you can edit the document. 
\item[Build] Compile the document using:
\verb+make+
\item[Commit] If everything compiles you can commit the changes to the
  repository:
\verb+svn commit --username <username> -m "<Comment>"+
where \verb+<username>+ is your svn-username\footnote{You can register
  at \url{http://alice.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/svnpw}}.
\end{description}

For further information on the subversion repository see ???.

\section{Typographic conventions}

A few conventions should be adhered in view of readability. In the
following examples are given together with the code used for their
generation. 

\begin{description}
\item[URL:] 
\url{http://alice.physi.uni-heidelberg.de}\\
\verb+\url{http://alice.physi.uni-heidelberg.de}+

\item[Commands:]
\verb+command+\\
\verb-\verb+<command text>+-
\end{description}
