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+<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
+<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+
+]>
+
+<section id="sn-opening-a-session">
+
+ <title>Opening a Session</title>
+
+ <para>
+ You can open a session by either
+ </para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Session</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Open</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ or press
+ <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>O</keycap></keycombo>
+ and then use the file selector to locate the
+ session you want to open.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ start ardour from a command line, and specify the session folder as
+ an argument.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>
+ When specifying a session to open you can either specify the
+ session folder or the session file. If you specify the folder, Ardour
+ will open the primary session file within the folder. If you specify a
+ session file (see <xref linkend="sn-snapshots"/>), Ardour will open
+ that particular session.
+ </para>
+
+ <section id="recent-sessions">
+ <title>Recent Sessions</title>
+
+ <para>
+ The
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Session</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Recent</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ menu item will allow you to navigate
+ directly to sessions that you have worked on recently. For sessions
+ with more than one recent session file, expand the session subtree by
+ clicking on the expansion box left of the session name.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <!--
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+ href="Some_Subsection.xml" />
+ -->
+
+</section>