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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] qemu-img: Convert invocation documentation to rST
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:14:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h80b8xpw.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200124162606.8787-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org>


Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> The qemu-img documentation is currently in qemu-nbd.texi in Texinfo
> format, which we present to the user as:
>  * a qemu-img manpage
>  * a section of the main qemu-doc HTML documentation
>
> Convert the documentation to rST format, and present it to the user as:
>  * a qemu-img manpage
>  * part of the interop/ Sphinx manual
>
> The qemu-img rST document uses the new hxtool extension
> to handle pulling rST fragments out of qemu-img-cmds.hx.
>
> The documentation of the various options and commands is rather
> muddled, with some options being described inside the relevant
> command description and some in a more general section near the start
> of the manual.  All the command synopses are replicated in the .hx
> file and then again in the manual.  A lot of text is also duplicated
> in the qemu-img.c code for the help text.  I have not attempted to
> deal with any of this, but have simply transposed the existing
> structure into rST.
>
> As usual, there are some minor formatting changes but no
> textual changes, except that as with one or two other conversions
> I have dropped the 'see also' section since it's not very
> informative and looks odd in the HTML.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

-- 
Alex Bennée


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-31 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-24 16:25 [PATCH v2 0/8] qemu-img, qemu-trace-stap, virtfs-proxy-helper: convert to rST Peter Maydell
2020-01-24 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] Makefile: Ensure we don't run Sphinx in parallel for manpages Peter Maydell
2020-01-31 15:20   ` Alex Bennée
2020-01-24 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] hxtool: Support SRST/ERST directives Peter Maydell
2020-01-24 18:10   ` Alex Bennée
2020-01-27  8:23   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-24 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] docs/sphinx: Add new hxtool Sphinx extension Peter Maydell
2020-01-24 18:24   ` Alex Bennée
2020-01-24 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] qemu-img-cmds.hx: Add rST documentation fragments Peter Maydell
2020-01-24 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] qemu-img: Convert invocation documentation to rST Peter Maydell
2020-01-31 15:14   ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2020-01-24 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] qemu-img-cmds.hx: Remove texinfo document fragments Peter Maydell
2020-01-31 15:14   ` Alex Bennée
2020-01-24 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] scripts/qemu-trace-stap: Convert documentation to rST Peter Maydell
2020-01-31 15:15   ` Alex Bennée
2020-01-24 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] virtfs-proxy-helper: " Peter Maydell
2020-01-24 16:47   ` Greg Kurz
2020-01-31 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] qemu-img, qemu-trace-stap, virtfs-proxy-helper: convert " Peter Maydell
2020-02-03 11:01 ` Peter Maydell

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