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command_options.xml docs 2005-08-22 17:19:00 +00:00
config_settings.xml own_window additions, such as background colour and transparency switch 2005-08-25 09:24:26 +00:00
conkyrc.sample double-buffer should be on by default 2005-08-25 05:48:46 +00:00
docgen.sh changed docgen.sh to no longer do gzipping, also replaces first line with something more manpage compatible 2005-08-24 20:42:15 +00:00
docs.xml oops, last makefile update i swear 2005-08-24 21:32:06 +00:00
Makefile.am oops, last makefile update i swear 2005-08-24 21:32:06 +00:00
README.docs docs 2005-08-22 17:08:55 +00:00
variables.xml updated todo; fixed scale for netgraphs (sf.net feature request 1256921); fixed small bug in ebuild; doc updates. 2005-08-25 04:00:55 +00:00

DA DOCS. YO.
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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
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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
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(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
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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"
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making the README (text-only) file is just some simple unix:
man -l conky.1.gz | col -b > README