diff --git a/Documentation/Models/Docbook/Tcar-ug/Manuals/Formats/texinfo.docbook b/Documentation/Models/Docbook/Tcar-ug/Manuals/Formats/texinfo.docbook
index 5efdce2..f901ad2 100644
--- a/Documentation/Models/Docbook/Tcar-ug/Manuals/Formats/texinfo.docbook
+++ b/Documentation/Models/Docbook/Tcar-ug/Manuals/Formats/texinfo.docbook
@@ -4,20 +4,20 @@
This section describes the implementation of Texinfo
- documentation format inside the help
- functionality of centos-art.sh script
- described in . In this
- section we assume you have a basic understanding of Texinfo
- documentation system. Otherwise, if you don't know what
- Texinfo documentation system is, read the Texinfo manual first
- (e.g., by running the info texinfo command)
- and then, come back here.
+ documentation format inside the functionality of
+ centos-art.sh script. In this section we
+ assume you have a basic understanding of Texinfo documentation
+ system. Otherwise, if you don't know what Texinfo
+ documentation system is, read the Texinfo manual first (e.g.,
+ by running the info texinfo command) and
+ then, come back here.
Document Structure
- The help functionality of
+ The functionality of
centos-art.sh provides a document structure
that makes documentation manuals created through it to be
scalable and maintainable through time. This document
@@ -27,26 +27,20 @@
- The first time you use the help
- functionality to create a documentation manual in Texinfo
- format, the help functionality considers
- the working directory you are placed in to determine where to
- store the documentation manual source files. When the current
- working directory is branches/Manuals/Texinfo, the
- documentation manual directory is created therein. On all
- other situations, the documentation manual directory is
- created under trunk/Manuals directory. Once
- the documentation manual directory has been created, the
- help functionality creates the related
- definition files using Texinfo documentation templates, as
- described in .
-
-
-
- Inside the documentation manual directory, source files are
+ The
+ functionality creates documentation manuals source files in
+ the trunk/Documentation/Models/Texinfo/
+ directory and saves output produced from them in the trunk/Documentation/Manuals/Texinfo/
+ directory. To produce documentation manuals initial source
+ files, the functionality
+ uses Texinfo documentation templates, as described in .
+
+
+
+ Inside the documentation models directory, source files are
stored inside language-specific directories. The
language-specific directories are necessary to implement
internationalization of Texinfo source files, as described in
@@ -57,15 +51,14 @@
Inside the language-specific directory, the following files
exist to store the manual's main definitions (e.g., title,
subtitle, author, copyright notice, chapters, appendixes,
- indexes and all the similar stuff a documentation manual would
- have). In addition to these files, there is one directory for
+ indexes and all similar stuff a documentation manual usually
+ has). In addition to these files, there is one directory for
each chapter created inside the manual. Inside each chapter
- directory, you'll found the files controlling the section
- definitions related to that chapter they belong to. The
- section files (a.k.a. documentation entries)
- are suffixed with a texinfo extension and named
- arbitrarily, as it is illustrated in documentation entries) are
+ suffixed with a texinfo
+ extension and named arbitrarily, as it is illustrated in .
Inside section files it is where you write the manual's
content itself.
@@ -101,11 +94,10 @@
Texinfo (as in texinfo-4.8-14.el5) doesn't
support part sectioning inside documentation manuals, so
- neither does the help functionality of
- centos-art.sh script. Nevertheless, you can
- create several documentation manuals and
- considered them as part of a bigger
- documentation manual to workaround this issue.
+ neither the functionality
+ does. Nevertheless, you can create several documentation
+ manuals and considered them as part of a bigger documentation
+ manual to workaround this issue.
@@ -114,7 +106,7 @@
as many documenation manuals, chapters and sections as you
need. The only limitation would be the amount of free space
required to store the Texinfo source files and the output
- files produced from them.
+ files produced from them in your workstation.
@@ -122,11 +114,11 @@
Document Templates
- Texinfo document templates provide the initial state the
- help functionality of
- centos-art.sh script needs in order to
- create and maintain document structures, as that one described
- in .
+ Texinfo document templates provide the initial document
+ structure the
+ functionality needs in order to create and maintain document
+ structures, as described in .
@@ -139,20 +131,20 @@
locale is English language or when you are creating/editing a
documentation manual in a language other than English, but no
language-specific document template for that language exists
- in the directory:
+ in the trunk/Scripts/Documentation/Models/Texinfo/Default/
+ directory.
-
-trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
-
- This directory organizes all Texinfo document templates using
- the format LL_CC, where LL is the language code (as in
- ISO-639) and CC the country code (as in ISO-3166). The
- directory structure of Texinfo document templates is
- illustrated in the and
- implemented through the following files:
+ The trunk/Scripts/Documentation/Models/Texinfo/Default/
+ directory organizes all Texinfo document templates using the
+ format LL_CC, where LL is the language code (as in ISO-639)
+ and CC the country code (as in ISO-3166). The directory
+ structure of Texinfo document templates is illustrated in the
+
+ and implemented through the following files:
@@ -174,25 +166,28 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
This file can be found inside the language-specific directory
and contains the menu definitions of chapters inside the
- manual. Menu definitions in this file are automatically
- updated when a new chapter is created or deleted through the
- help functionality of
- centos-art.sh script. Generally, you don't
- need to edit this file once the documentation manual has been
- created.
+ manual. When
+ functionality creates instances of this file, menu definitions
+ inside it are automatically updated when a new chapter is
+ created or deleted through the functionality. Generally, you
+ don't need to edit instances of this file once the
+ documentation manual has been created.
When a documentation manual is created for first time, this
file is copied from Texinfo document template directory
structure to the documentation manual being currently created.
- At this specific moment, this file contains the following
- Texinfo menu definition:
+ At this specific moment, the instance created contains the
+ following Texinfo menu definition:
- @menu
+
+@menu
* Licenses::
* Index::
-@end menu
+@end menu
+
Later, when chapters are added to or deleted from the
@@ -200,10 +195,10 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
or deleting menu entries accordingly. Nevertheless, the two
entries shown above are ignored when new chapters are added to
or removed from the list, so they will always be present in
- this file. To preserve the manual consistency, the
- help functionality prevents you from
- deleting any of these chapters once the documentation manual
- has been created.
+ instances of this file. To preserve the manual consistency,
+ the functionality prevents
+ you from deleting any of these chapters once the documentation
+ manual has been created.
@@ -215,14 +210,15 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
This file can be found inside the language-specific directory
and contains the node definitions of all chapters inside the
- manual. Node definitions in this file are automatically
- created based on menu definitions (see
- manual-menu.texinfo file above) and they
- don't include any content here. Instead, as part of the node
- definition, the @include command is used to
+ manual. When
+ functionality creates instances of this file, node definitions
+ inside it are automatically created based on menu definitions
+ (see manual-menu.texinfo file above) and
+ they don't include any content here. Instead, as part of the
+ node definition, the @include command is used to
connect each node with its content. Generally, you don't need
- to edit this file once the documentation manual has been
- created.
+ to edit instances of this file once the documentation manual
+ has been created.
@@ -235,8 +231,8 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
and contains the Texinfo commands used to generated an
organized view of all indexes you defined inside documentation
entries so they can be quickly accessed. Generally, you don't
- need to edit this file once the documentation manual has been
- created.
+ need to edit instnaces of this file once the documentation
+ manual has been created.
@@ -248,9 +244,9 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
This file contains the initial configuration of documentation
manuals written in Texinfo format. When a documentation manual
is created for first time, this file is copied into its target
- directory so you be able of later customizing specific
- information like menu order, title styles and template
- assignments. The content of this file is described in .
@@ -260,14 +256,22 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
chapter.texinfo
- This file contains the Texinfo's main chapter definition used
- by help functionality when new chapters
- are created inside documentation manuals. When chapters are
- created for first time, they come without any introduction or
- documentation entry inside. If you want to add/update any
- information inside the chapter definition itself, edit the
- related chapter file inside the documentation manual you are
- working on, not the template file used to create it.
+ This file contains Texinfo's main chapter definition used
+ by functionality when new
+ chapters are created inside documentation manuals. When
+ chapters are created for first time, they come without any
+ introduction or documentation entry inside.
+
+
+ In case you need to add/update the chapters definition files,
+ edit the related chapter definition file inside the
+ documentation manual you are working on, not the template file
+ used to create it. To edit the chapter definition file, don't
+ provide any section information in the documentation entry.
+ For example, if you want to update the chapter introduction
+ related to trunk chapter inside
+ tcar-fs documentation manual, use the
+ tcar-fs::trunk: documentation entry.
@@ -293,7 +297,7 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
This file is part of Texinfo's main chapter definition and
- contains the node definition the help
+ contains the node definition the
functionality uses as reference to create the list of Texinfo
nodes related to all documentation entries created inside the
chapter. The node definition of documentation entries is
@@ -310,14 +314,15 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
This file contains the Texinfo section definition used by
- help functionality when new documentation
- entries are created inside the chapters of a documentation
- manual. When documentation entries are created for first time,
- they are created as empty documentation entries that you need
- to fill up with content. Again, if you want to update the
- content of sections inside the documentation manual, update
- the related documentation entry inside the documentation
- manual, not the template file used to create it.
+ functionality when new
+ documentation entries are created inside chapters of
+ documentation manuals. When documentation entries are created
+ for first time, they are created as empty documentation
+ entries that you need to fill up with content. Again, if you
+ want to update the content of sections inside the
+ documentation manual, update the related documentation entry
+ inside the documentation manual, not the template file used to
+ create it.
@@ -327,16 +332,16 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
described in . In
this example, ${SECTION_NAME} is a variable
- string refering the file name of documentaiton entries.
- The file names of documentation entries is made of letters,
- numbers and the minus sign (which is generally used to
- separate words).
+ string referring the file name of documentation entries. The
+ file names of documentation entries are made of letters,
+ numbers and the minus sign (which is generally used as word
+ separator).
- Documentation entries are not limited inside a documentation
- manual. You can create as many documentation entries as you
- need to describe the content of your manual.
+ Documentation entries are not limited inside chapters of
+ documentation manuals. You can create as many documentation
+ entries as you need to describe the content of your manual.
@@ -349,11 +354,10 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
language-specific directories so you can control common and
specific output settings through them. These files aren't
copied into the directory structure of new documentation
- manuals created through the help
- functionality of centos-art.sh script.
- Instead, they remain inside the template directory structure
- so as to be reused each time the output of documentation
- manuals is rendered.
+ manuals created through the
+ functionality. Instead, they remain inside the template
+ directory structure so as to be reused each time the output of
+ documentation manuals is rendered.
@@ -379,13 +383,13 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
This file can be found inside and outside language-specific
- directories and contain special transformations for Texi2html
+ directories and contains special transformations for Texi2html
output. Again, when this file is inside language-specific
- directories the transformation have are applied to that
+ directories the transformation are applied to that
language-specific XHTML output and when it is outside
language-specific directories the transformations are applied
to all language-specific XHTML outputs. Most transformations
- achived through this file are to produce admonitions since
+ achieved through this file are to produce admonitions since
Texinfo documentation format (as in
texinfo-4.8-14.el5) doesn't have an
internal command to build them.
@@ -395,19 +399,20 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
- Texinfo document template
+ Template for texinfo document structures
- Texinfo document template
+ Template for texinfo document structures
- trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
-|-- ${LANG}
-| |-- Chapters
+
+trunk/Documentation/Models/Texinfo/Default/
+|-- ${LANG}/
+| |-- Chapters/
| | |-- chapter-menu.texinfo
| | |-- chapter-nodes.texinfo
| | |-- chapter.texinfo
| | `-- section.texinfo
-| |-- Licenses
+| |-- Licenses/
| | |-- GFDL.texinfo
| | |-- GPL.texinfo
| | |-- chapter-menu.texinfo
@@ -421,7 +426,8 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
| |-- manual.sed
| `-- manual.texinfo
|-- manual-init.pl
-`-- manual.sed
+`-- manual.sed
+
@@ -448,8 +454,9 @@ trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Help/Texinfo/Templates
Document Expansions
- The document expansions are special constructions used to
- generate content dynamically inside Texinfo source files.
+ The document expansions are special constructions the functionality uses to generate
+ content dynamically inside Texinfo source files.
@@ -569,7 +576,10 @@ option_name = "option_value"
Once the documentation manual has been created, you must not
change the value of option.
- This will produce an error.
+ This will produce an error because there is not a migration
+ feature available yet. In the future, when you change this
+ value, it must be possible to transform documentation manuals
+ from one format to another.
@@ -624,7 +634,7 @@ option_name = "option_value"
- Document Internationalization
+ Document Localization
To produce localized documentation manuals through Texinfo
documentation format it is necessary to create one
@@ -638,12 +648,12 @@ option_name = "option_value"
based on its content. To keep track of changes inside the
source manual, the underlaying version control system must be
used considering that there is no direct way to apply
- gettext
+ gettext
- The gettext program translates
+ The gettext program translates
a natural language message into the user's language, by
looking up the translation in a message catalog. For more
- information about the gettext
+ information about the gettext
program, run info gettext.
procedures to Texinfo source files.
@@ -651,21 +661,20 @@ option_name = "option_value"
In order to maintain localization of Texinfo source files
- through gettext procedures, it is
- necessary to convert the Texinfo source files into
- XML format first. This way it would be possible to make use of
- locale and render
- functionalities from centos-art.sh script
- to maintain translation messages in different languages
- through portable objets and producing localized XML files
- based on such portable objects, respectively. Once the
- localized XML file is available, it would be a matter of using
- an XSLT processor (see the xsltproc
- command) to realize the convertion from XML to a localize
- Texinfo (or possible other) format. Nevertheless, this
- workaround fails because the Document Type Definition (DTD)
- required to validate the XML file produced from
- makeinfo (as in
+ through gettext procedures, it is necessary
+ to convert the Texinfo source files into XML format first.
+ This way it would be possible to make use of and functionalities to maintain
+ translation messages in different languages through portable
+ objects and producing localized XML files based on such
+ portable objects, respectively. Once the localized XML file
+ is available, it would be a matter of using an XSLT processor
+ (see the xsltproc command) to realize the
+ convertion from XML to a localize Texinfo (or possible other)
+ format. Nevertheless, this workaround fails because the
+ Document Type Definition (DTD) required to validate the XML
+ file produced from makeinfo (as in
texinfo-4.8-14.el5) is not availabe inside
&TCD; (release 5.5), nor it is the XSLT files required to
realize the transformation itself for such DTD.
@@ -673,14 +682,14 @@ option_name = "option_value"
Another similar approach to maintain localization of Texinfo
- source files through gettext
- procedures would be to convert Texinfo source file to DocBook
- format; for who the required DTD and XSLT files are available
- inside &TCD;. This way, following a procedure similar to that
- one describe for XML files above, it would be possible to end
- up having localized DocBook files that can be used as source
- to produce localized output for both online and printing
- media. However, the DocBook output produced from
+ source files through gettext procedures
+ would be to convert Texinfo source file to DocBook format; for
+ who the required DTD and XSLT files are available inside
+ &TCD;. This way, following a procedure similar to that one
+ describe for XML files above, it would be possible to end up
+ having localized DocBook files that can be used as source to
+ produce localized output for both online and printing media.
+ However, the DocBook output produced from
makeinfo command (as in
texinfo-4.8-14.el5) isn't a valid DocBook
document according to DocBook DTDs available inside &TCD;
@@ -698,8 +707,7 @@ option_name = "option_value"
in ISO-639 standard) and must be set inside the manual's main
definition file. Generally, there is no need to change the
document language declaration once it has been created by the
- help functionality of
- centos-art.sh script; unless you
+ functionality; unless you
mistakently create the manual for a locale code different to
that one you previously pretended to do in first place, of
course.
@@ -707,13 +715,12 @@ option_name = "option_value"
The language information used in both Texinfo source files and
- XHTML output produced by the help
- functionality of centos-art.sh script is
- determined by the user's session LANG
- environment variable. This variable can be customized in the
- graphical login screen before login, or once you've login by
- explicitly setting the value of LANG
- environment variable inside the
+ XHTML output produced by the
+ functionality is determined by the user's session
+ LANG environment variable. This variable can
+ be customized in the graphical login screen before login, or
+ once you've login by explicitly setting the value of
+ LANG environment variable inside the
~/.bash_profile file.
@@ -756,10 +763,9 @@ option_name = "option_value"
US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1,
ISO-8859-15 or ISO-8859-2 as
argument. Nevertheless, you should be aware that the
- help functionality of
- centos-art.sh script doesn't declare the
- @documentencoding inside Texinfo source files.
- Let's see why.
+ functionality doesn't
+ declare the @documentencoding inside Texinfo
+ source files. Let's see why.
@@ -797,8 +803,8 @@ option_name = "option_value"
over the i letter's dot,
instead of removing the i letter's dot and
put the accentuation mark on its place. In the case of XHTML
- output, however, it possible to produce well localized XHTML
- output by setting
+ output, however, it is possible to produce well localized
+ XHTML output by setting
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
@@ -813,23 +819,46 @@ option_name = "option_value"
These contradictions provide the reasons over which it was
decided not to set the @documentencoding in those
- Texinfo source files produced by the help
- functionality of centos-art.sh script. Now,
- considering them, we can conclude that it is no viable way to
- localize Texinfo source files through
- gettext procedures so one
- documentation manual must be created for each language we
- desire to support documentation for. In this configuration,
- it is difficult the production of well localized PDF output,
- but it is possible to produce well localized Info, Text, and
- XHTML outputs as long as no document encoding be explicitly
- set inside Texinfo source files and UTF-8 be used as default
- terminal character encoding.
+ Texinfo source files produced by the functionality.
+
+ Conclusions
+
+
+ Texinfo documentation format is very good producing online
+ documentation for reading text terminals. It provides feautres
+ to export source files to different output formats both for
+ reading online and paper. However, localized documents becomes
+ hard to maintain because it is required one document structure
+ for each language you want to produce documentation for.
+
+
+ Intermediate formats like XML and Docbook provide an
+ alternative to centralize localization of Texinfo document
+ source files, but there is no supported way inside &TCD; to
+ transformed a localized XML file back into texinfo format, nor
+ a way of producing well formed Docbook documents from Texinfo
+ source files. Thus, one Texinfo source structure for each
+ language to support is the solution adopted by functionality.
+
+
+
+ When using Texinfo documentation format it is difficult to
+ produce well localized PDF outputs, but it is possible to
+ produce well localized Info, Text, and XHTML outputs as long
+ as no document encoding be explicitly set inside Texinfo
+ source files and UTF-8 be used as default terminal character
+ encoding.
+
+
+
+