2 This directory contains source for the project mandated "read the
3 docs" .rst documentation. If the "tfm" tool is available, the
4 Makefile will both build the doc from the source here and "install" it
5 into the docs directory at the repo root. Then the generated .rst
6 files must be checked into the repo and committed with changes to the
7 source (maybe not the best practice).
9 The command 'make all' should be all that is needed to build the
10 rtd documentation. Follow that with 'make publish' to actually move
11 the .rst files into the docs directory at the root; only the changed
15 When a new manual page is added to the source (../man), it must be
16 added to the list in the user's guide source in this directory.
19 Documentation is just code, and by maintaining the documentation as
20 source is is possible to generate various forms of output with a
21 single make. While it is possible to convert X to Y, a true document
22 composition language is far better at generating readable Postscript
23 output with embedded figures as well as text and tables.
26 The RST syntax is as bad as python when it comes to dealing with
27 spaces. For example &bold( foo ) will insert spaces after the initial
28 bold trigger, and before the trailing bold trigger which will throw
29 the tox validation into a tizzy. Further, something like 'void *'
30 and 'rmr_ ' does as well. If needed, use the defined escape macro
31 to add an escape in such situations; it should only generate for RST
32 and not impact other output formats.