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    <title><application>Gaphor</application> Manual</title>
    <subtitle>for <application>Gaphor</application> version 0.8.0</subtitle>
    <author><firstname>Arjan</firstname><surname>Molenaar</surname></author>
    <!--author><firstname>Artur</firstname><surname>Wroblewski</surname></author-->

    <abstract>
      <para><application>Gaphor</application> is an UML modeling environment. It is used to create UML
      models for the purpose of documentation and, maybe, code generation.
      </para>
    </abstract>
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  <chapter id="chap-introduction">
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para><application>Gaphor</application> is a UML modeling environment. It
    helps you create diagrams which describe a system (application).
    <application>Gaphor</application> has a UML 2.0 compliant data model (the
    <quote>UML metamodel</quote>) and an XML storage format.  </para>

    <para><application>Gaphor</application> is written in
    <application>Python</application>, an object oriented scripting language.
    Due to the structure of <application>Python</application> it is very easy
    to extend <application>Gaphor</application> and even use parts of
    <application>Gaphor</application> in other applications. As a matter of
    fact, the diagrams in this document are created by a script that uses
    <application>Gaphor</application>.</para>

    <para>This document is work in progress. As
    <application>Gaphor</application> matures, the documentation will also
    become more complete and useful. Of course everything is enriched with
    lots of UML diagrams, which are created with
    <application>Gaphor</application>.</para>
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