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Brenden Matthews a1452f5db4 * Applied 12 patches:
1) sysfs battery support (for Linux >=2.6.24) (thanks Kapil)
        2) Improved audacious support patch (thanks Miroslav)
        3) tp_smapi support patch for IBM laptops (thanks Phil)
        4) user info patch (thanks Roland)
        5) added conky build info patch (thanks Roland)
        6) added if_up patch (thanks Phil)
        7) added reload on SIGHUP patch (thanks Jonas)
        8) added pad percentages patch (thanks Jonas)
        9) added fs_type patch (thanks Ryan)
        10) added xmms2 fixes patch (thanks Lassi)
        11) fix sysfs crash patch (thanks Phil)
        12) multiple ip patch ($addrs)
    * Added more alignment support (top_middle, bottom_middle, middle_left,
    and middle_right).


git-svn-id: https://conky.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/conky/trunk/conky1@1010 7f574dfc-610e-0410-a909-a81674777703
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command_options.xml Reformatted all code 2008-02-20 20:30:45 +00:00
config_settings.xml * Applied 12 patches: 2008-03-18 00:23:16 +00:00
config_settings.xsl Reformatted all code 2008-02-20 20:30:45 +00:00
conky-howto.xml Updated docs to include RSS and wireless. README has not been built. 2007-08-07 22:42:30 +00:00
conky.1 * Applied 12 patches: 2008-03-18 00:23:16 +00:00
conkyrc.sample * Small fix for $ibm_volume (thanks Kapil Hari Paranjape) 2007-09-28 20:16:16 +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 * Applied 12 patches: 2008-03-18 00:23:16 +00:00
Makefile.am Reformatted all code 2008-02-20 20:30:45 +00:00
README.docs Reformatted all code 2008-02-20 20:30:45 +00:00
variables.xml * Applied 12 patches: 2008-03-18 00:23:16 +00:00
variables.xsl Reformatted all code 2008-02-20 20:30:45 +00:00

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