mirror of
https://github.com/Llewellynvdm/conky.git
synced 2024-12-25 12:10:03 +00:00
534457b9ca
git-svn-id: https://conky.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/conky/trunk/conky@149 7f574dfc-610e-0410-a909-a81674777703
42 lines
2.1 KiB
Plaintext
42 lines
2.1 KiB
Plaintext
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
|