Hello again Pierre, please to see you here. you told me about your IRC pseudo : mine is pygmee. as a visual editor i also use Gedit, but if you like KDE, kate is also a good choice, it has many nice xml feature such as tag completion or open-end tag highlighting. I find dedicated tool such as conglomerate much to restrictive and slow. I know you do some work on windows. In this case, you may use some XML-notepad, or xmlmindEditor (but i guess they are not open source) Svn is very easy on Linux. You just have to get "subversion" package installed from synaptic (or apt-get if you prefer). Then create a directory somewhere, i do call it "sources" or "SVN". then go inside (from xterm "cd /pathtouyourdirectory"). Then use these commands : svn co https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/user_manual/trunk user_manual and you have the last state of the documentation at home in a "user_manual" directory. Once you've made this, you can do changes and send a patch . To know more : read here : http://inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WorkingWithSVN and tell if you have troubles. pygmee