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5c8e88e59e Build: provide a placeholder page for the (planned) User-Manual
Debian-Docbase allows to register some HTML documentation;
My old package definition added placeholder config, which renders
the documentation configuration invalid (as pointed out by Lintian).
However, I still think it is a good idea to have the anchor point
already defined, and thus I came up with the idea of in fact
providing some usable placeholder content...

As it turns out, we also have a placeholder page at the Lumiera website,
where the User Manual is assumed to be located later — so why not extend
this one and then provide the HTML-rendering for the DEB package?

To allow for this setup
 * I have now extended the placeholder page for the Website
   to include some generic description about Lumiera (from the 'about' page)
 * Furthermore, I added the screenshot (from the »Outer Space« page)
 * and I use this a an opportunity to document the various test / demo
   facilities currently available in the GUI, since these are rather obscure.
   While only intended for the developer, it seems still worthwhile
   to describe the possible effects — it may well be that we retain
   some of that test/demo functionality and in that case, we have
   now already some starting point for a documentation

 * Then, to include that page as stand-alone HTML, I used the 'Print Edit WE'-plugin
   from Firefox, to encode the images as inline-base64 URLs (which are restored
   by a tiny JavaScript embedded into that page)

 * and last but not least, our SCons buildsystem needs the ability
   to install such a documentation file, since it seems most adequate
   to handle this requirement as part of the generic installation (and
   not hidden in some Debian scripting)
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