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* manual: high-level restructuringThomas De Schampheleire2014-08-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The structure of the buildroot manual is not always clear. There is a large number of chapters, and some chapters seem to overlap. The distinction between general usage and developer information is not always clear. This patch restructures the manual into four large parts: - getting started - user guide - developer guide - appendix Except for the names of these parts, the section names are not yet changed. Content-wise there are no changes yet either. This will be handled in subsequent patches. In order to achieve the introduction of a new level 'parts' above 'chapters', the section indicators (=, ==, ===, ...) of several sections have to be moved one level down. Additionally, the leveloffset indication to asciidoc has to be removed. Finally, to maintain more or less the same level of detail in the table of contents, the toc.section.depth attribute is reduced as well. Note that for some sections, less detail is visible now. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial)Thomas De Schampheleire2014-05-021-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles (title prefixed with a specific number of = signs). The two-line title underlines are: Level 0 (top level): ====================== Level 1: ---------------------- Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ and the one-line title prefixes: = Document Title (level 0) = == Section title (level 1) == === Section title (level 2) === ==== Section title (level 3) ==== ===== Section title (level 4) ===== The buildroot manual is currenly using the two-line titles, but this has multiple disadvantages: - asciidoc also uses some of the underline symbols for other purposes (like preformatted code, example blocks, ...), which makes it difficult to do mass replacements, such as a planned follow-up patch that needs to move all sections one level down. - it is difficult to remember which level a given underline symbol (=-~^+) corresponds to, while counting = signs is easy. This patch changes all two-level titles to one-level titles in the manual. The bulk of the change was done with the following Python script, except for the level 1 titles (-----) as these underlines are also used for literal code blocks. This patch only changes the titles, no other changes. In adding-packages-directory.txt, I did add missing newlines between some titles and their content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import mmap import re for input in sys.argv[1:]: f = open(input, 'r+') f.flush() s = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0) # Level 0 (top level): ====================== = # Level 1: ---------------------- == # Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ === # Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ==== # Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ ===== def replace_title(s, symbol, replacement): pattern = re.compile(r'(.+\n)\%s{2,}\n' % symbol, re.MULTILINE) return pattern.sub(r'%s \1' % replacement, s) new = s new = replace_title(new, '=', '=') new = replace_title(new, '+', '=====') new = replace_title(new, '^', '====') new = replace_title(new, '~', '===') #new = replace_title(new, '-', '==') s.seek(0) s.write(new) s.resize(s.tell()) s.close() f.close() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* manual: cleanup and update editor tagsSamuel Martin2013-02-171-0/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* docs/manual: Slightly improve the introductionThomas Petazzoni2012-12-291-5/+10
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: trivial fixesArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)2012-11-271-2/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: minor tweaksSimon Dawson2012-11-161-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | Minor grammatical and spelling tweaks to the manual content. Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: rework introduction.txt and add embedded-basics.txtSamuel Martin2012-11-151-60/+12
| | | | | | | | | | Split and rephrasing of introduction.txt. Cross-toolchain explainations moved from introduction.txt into embedded-basics.txt. Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: convert existing documentation to the asciidoc formatThomas Petazzoni2011-10-251-0/+69
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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