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Dan Church 88b2aceb28 Fix error when generating man pages from XML (#370)
Fixes the following error when running `docgen.sh`:

    /usr/bin/iconv: illegal input sequence at position 8008
    /usr/bin/db2x_manxml: program in pipeline exited with an error

Solution: Replace Unicode characters with characters that iconv can
convert. Uses the same characters as the default setting, defined in
9809f7cd91.

Seen when using:
- `iconv` from glibc 2.24
- `db2x_manxml` from linuxdoc-tools 0.9.72 (with docbook2X 0.8.8-14 debian)
- Slackware64 -current
2018-01-19 09:06:00 -05:00
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CMakeLists.txt Update version, copyright. 2012-05-03 16:34:44 -07:00
command_options.xml Update command options documentation (#247) 2016-05-06 07:25:06 -04:00
config_settings.xml Fix error when generating man pages from XML (#370) 2018-01-19 09:06:00 -05:00
config_settings.xsl Read configuration from ~/.config/conky/conky.conf 2014-11-17 22:06:27 +01:00
conky-howto.xml Read configuration from ~/.config/conky/conky.conf 2014-11-17 22:06:27 +01:00
docgen.sh Make sure we get report if one of the commands in the documentation pipeline fails 2012-10-03 22:51:28 +02:00
docs.xml Require Lua 5.1 when building the Lua bindings 2015-12-11 16:05:02 -07:00
lua.xml Add creation functions for certain cairo structures. 2009-11-25 12:53:42 -08:00
lua.xsl Refactor some of the new weather code, fix docs. 2009-07-12 23:31:57 -06:00
README.docs Reformatted all code 2008-02-20 20:30:45 +00:00
variables.xml NVIDIA: Cleared TODO for the multi-GPU support (#382) 2018-01-19 09:04:23 -05:00
variables.xsl Refactor some of the new weather code, fix docs. 2009-07-12 23:31:57 -06:00

DA DOCS. YO.
============
The main file that contains the bulk of our documentation is docs.xml .
We use the DocBook format, which is a really kickass xml-based way of
writing documentation, heavily oriented towards programming and computer
stuff. There are tags like <command> and <option> that marks up your
content without actually having to mark it up, which is why something
that's of the <command> shows up in some cool style regardless of
whether it's in a man page or a web page. DocBook has been around for
10 years, and there's TONS of resources online about the different
tags and the stuff that can be done.

FILE ORGANIZATION
=================
For the sake of making things readable and organized,
docs.xml "includes" three other files, as of 8/18/05.
These are config_settings.xml, command_options.xml, and variables.xml .
Their names are pretty self-explanatory, and what the "include" essentially
does is stick their contents into docs.xml at the appropriate locations
when it's time to produce a man page or html file. So if you wanted to
add a variable or explain a command line option better, you'd look in
variables.xml and command_options.xml. If you wanted to change the authors
or something, look in docs.xml

BUILDING DA DOCS
================
(NOTE that the docs are now built automatically via doc/Makefile.am, but it requires that you have docbook2x and xsltproc installed)

making the html is easy. xsltproc should more than likely already be on your system:

xsltproc http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl docs.xml > docs.html
==============================================================================================================
making the man page is pretty easy, it uses a program called docbook2x, which you might or might not have.

docbook2x-man docs.xml (produces a conky.1 file)
gzip conky.1

conky.1.gz can be viewed in man-form by doing "man -l conky.1.gz"
==============================================================================================================
making the README (text-only) file is just some simple unix:
man -l conky.1.gz | col -b > README