[yocto] any plans on more carefully distinguishing docbook markup in yocto docs?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed Jun 18 04:49:49 PDT 2014


On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:

> I could look at this... low on the priority list right now though
> but good point.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
> >bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 5:51 AM
> >To: Yocto discussion list
> >Subject: [yocto] any plans on more carefully distinguishing docbook markup in
> >yocto docs?
> >
> >
> >  i'm sure i asked this once before, but is there any long-term plan for more
> >carefully marking up the yocto docs semantically? as in, most things that
> >represent filenames or variables or commands or code are simply tagged as
> ><filename>, even when this is not really appropriate.
> >
> >  to be semantically precise, one should be more carefully selecting among
> >tags such as <filename>, <varname>, <command>, <code> and so on.
> >for now, i suspect the rendering toolchain wouldn't change what's eventually
> >produced, but in the future, i think more careful markup would allow the
> >generation of much prettier docs.
> >
> >  thoughts?

  oh, i totally agree that it's low priority -- it would make sense to
decide on proper semantic markup and do one massive change, say, after
the next major release. i'd be willing to help with that.

rday

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