doc: organize chapters into parts, and reduce toc depth

Reorganize the chapters into parts and reduce the TOC depth to make the
TOC useful again. The top-level TOC is very brief, but that is fine
because every part will have its own TOC.

Section titles of languages/frameworks are also simplified to just
the name of the language/framework.

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diff --git a/doc/contributing-to-documentation.xml b/doc/contributing-to-documentation.xml
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+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+         xml:id="chap-contributing">
+ <title>Contributing to this documentation</title>
+ <para>
+  The DocBook sources of the Nixpkgs manual are in the <filename
+xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/doc">doc</filename> subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+  You can quickly check your edits with <command>make</command>:
+ </para>
+<screen>
+<prompt>$ </prompt>cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
+<prompt>$ </prompt>nix-shell
+<prompt>[nix-shell]$ </prompt>make
+</screen>
+ <para>
+  If you experience problems, run <command>make debug</command> to help understand the docbook errors.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+  After making modifications to the manual, it's important to build it before committing. You can do that as follows:
+<screen>
+<prompt>$ </prompt>cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
+<prompt>$ </prompt>nix-shell
+<prompt>[nix-shell]$ </prompt>make clean
+<prompt>[nix-shell]$ </prompt>nix-build .
+</screen>
+  If the build succeeds, the manual will be in <filename>./result/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html</filename>.
+ </para>
+</chapter>