[authors] Base Chapter 1

[John Meyer]

Okay, I'm still going through the markup on Chapter 1, but here's my 
initial take:  any chapter that gets to 129 pages needs some serious 
trimming and this is no exception.  There is too much in this chapter 
that could be summarized down or thrown out altogether.  Do we really 
need, for example, a section that tells people where to store their 
files? Anything that walks the user step-by-step through any action that 
requires more than three clicks at this point is a little premature.
There are other issues in the document and I'll upload my marked up 
version, but I would seriously suggest deleting any section with four or 
more numbers and seriously looking at three numbers. The point of this 
chapter is an introduction, not a complete book in and of itself.