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[DOCs] fix typo and add python virtual env support for pcbnew 

Signed-off-by: Yoan Dumas <yoan@eye-lights.fr>
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Quick start
~~~~~~~~~~~
If you want to *learn by examples*, or you just want to take a look a
If you want to *learn by examples*, or you just want to take a look at
what KiBot can do, you can use the ``--quick-start`` command line
option.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you try to use a Python virtual environment you’ll need to find a way
to make the KiCad module (``pcbnew``) available on it. I don’t know how
to make it.
to make the KiCad module (``pcbnew``) available on it. From the `linked
GitHub issue
<https://github.com/yaqwsx/PcbDraw/issues/119#issuecomment-1274029481>`_
, to make the ``pcbnew`` available on the virtual env, you will need to
run the following command:
.. code:: shell
python -m venv --system-site-packages venv
Then python started in the venv will look at the packages in the system
location, which is where KiCad puts its python code.
In addition: note that the virtual env will change the system share data
paths. They will no longer point to things like ``/usr/share/`` but to a