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Introduction to the Blender Manual
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This manual aims to be a complete and concise source of information
to help you to become familiar with the application.


Conventions
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Keyboards
---------

Hotkey letters are shown in this manual like they appear on a keyboard; for example,

:kbd:`G`
  refers to the lowercase ``g``.
:kbd:`Shift`, :kbd:`Ctrl`, :kbd:`Alt`
  are specified as modifier keys.
:kbd:`Ctrl-W`, :kbd:`Shift-Alt-A`, ...
  indicates that these keys should be pressed simultaneously
:kbd:`Numpad0` to :kbd:`Numpad9`, :kbd:`NumpadPlus`
  refer to the keys on the separate numeric keypad.

Other keys are referred to by their names,
such as :kbd:`Esc`, :kbd:`Tab`, :kbd:`F1` to :kbd:`F12`.
Of special note are the arrow keys, :kbd:`Left`, :kbd:`Right` and so on.


Mice
----

This manual referrers to mouse buttons as:

:kbd:`LMB`
  Left Mouse Button
:kbd:`RMB`
  Right Mouse Button
:kbd:`MMB`
  Middle Mouse Button
:kbd:`Wheel`
  Scrolling the wheel.


.. _about-user-contribute:

Contribute
==========

The Blender Manual is a community driven effort to which anyone can contribute.
Either if you found a typo or if you want to improve the general quality of the documentation,
there are several options for helping out. You can:

#. Fix problems, improve the documentation and write new sections --
   see how to :doc:`contribute </about/contribute/index>`.
#. `Report problems
   <https://developer.blender.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/default/?project=PHID-PROJ-c4nvvrxuczix2326vlti>`__
   in the documentation.
#. Get involved in discussions through the `mailing list <https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard>`__
   and ``#blenderwiki`` :ref:`IRC channel <irc-channels>`.