doc: rewrite the book foreword

Signed-off-by: Julian Orth <ju.orth@gmail.com>

doc/book/src/Foreword.md

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+<img style="display: block; margin: auto;" src="images/wayland.png">
+
 # Preface
 
-This document describes the (i) Wayland architecture, (ii) Wayland model of
+This document describes the Wayland architecture and Wayland model of operation.
-operation and (iii) its library API. Also, the Wayland protocol specification is
+This document is aimed primarily at Wayland developers and those looking to
-shown in the Appendix. This document is aimed primarily at Wayland developers
+program with it; it does not cover application development.
-and those looking to program with it; it does not cover application development.
 
 There have been many contributors to this document and since this is only the
 first edition many errors are expected to be found. We appreciate corrections.
 
 Yours, the Wayland open-source community November 2012
 
+## Protocol Documentation
+
+This document does not describe the semantics of individual messages sent
+between compositors and clients. Consult the following documents to learn about
+concrete Wayland interfaces, requests, and events.
+
+- [wayland.xml] - The official documentation of the core protocol.
+- [wayland-protocols] - Standardized Wayland extension protocols.
+- [wayland.app] - A community-maintained website that renders these protocols,
+  and many more, as easily accessible HTML pages.
+
+[wayland.xml]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/blob/main/protocol/wayland.xml
+[wayland-protocols]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols
+[wayland.app]: https://wayland.app
+
+## About the Book
+
+This book is written in markdown and converted to HTML using
+[mdbook](https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook).
+
+It supports the [CommonMark](https://commonmark.org/) dialect of markdown plus a number of
+widely supported extensions:
+
+- `~~strikethrough~~`
+- ```markdown
+  footnotes[^note]
+  
+  [^note]: text
+  ```
+- ```markdown
+  | Tables | Header2 |
+  |--------|---------|
+  | abc    | def     |
+  ```
+- ```markdown
+  - [x] Task lists
+  - [ ] Incomplete task
+  ```
+- ```markdown
+  definition lists
+    : This is the definition of a
+      definition list
+  ```
+- ```markdown
+  > [!NOTE]
+  > Admonitions
+  ```
+  
+The full list of extensions is documented
+[here](https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/format/markdown.html#extensions).
+
 ## Copyright
 
 Copyright © 2012 Kristian Høgsberg