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Re: [PATCH] stgit: make tutorial a valid asciidoc article

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PRPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date
Jan 16, 2006, 22:37 UTC
Message-ID
<1137451068.5043.19.camel@dv>
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<b0943d9e0601160021t3b40ba3fp@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:21 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
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> On 13/01/06, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> > There should be only one level 0 title in an article, so lower ranks of
> > all headers by one.  Make capitalization uniform in the headers - level
> > 1 is capitalized, but level 2 is not.  Create a new level 1 part
> > "Technical Information".
> >
> > Make ".git/ Directory Structure" a level 2 header and rephrase.
> > asciidoc doesn't like headers starting with a dot.
> 
> I agree with most of this but what's the difference when adding "~~~~"
> instead of "----"?

An article can only have one level 0 title, which is underlined by "====". There may be more than one level 0 title in a book, but we probably shouldn't do it. Books have page breaks and table of contents for every level 0 title.

This means that the existing hierarchy should be moved one step down. Level 1 uses "----" and level 2 uses "~~~~". I guess your objection is that the visual distinction between level 1 and level 2 is insignificant in the original ASCII file. I agree.

It's possible to override the underline rules by placing asciidoc.conf in the same directory as the document. I think "####" would be just fine for the level 0. Then we can keep the rest.

Also, I've added a makefile. It's not used by default, but those who want to read a tutorial, can generate it in html or pdf format.

Here's the new patch. ---

Make tutorial a valid asciidoc article.
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>

There should be only one level 0 title, so redefine underline rules in asciidoc.conf to keep the existing underlines when possible. Form a new level 1 part "Technical Information" from the text at the end. Make introduction a preamble - it's too short to be a level 1 section.

Add doc/Makefile to process the tutorial automatically. make needs to be run explicitly in the doc directory.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
---
 doc/Makefile      |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 doc/asciidoc.conf |    3 +++
 doc/tutorial.txt  |   14 ++++++++------
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07704b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+DOCS = tutorial.txt
+DOCS_HTML = $(DOCS:.txt=.html)
+DOCS_PDF = $(DOCS:.txt=.pdf)
+
+all: $(DOCS_HTML) $(DOCS_PDF)
+
+%.html: %.txt
+	asciidoc $<
+
+%.xml: %.txt
+	asciidoc --backend=docbook $<
+
+%.pdf: %.xml
+	xmlto pdf $<
+
+clean:
+	rm -f *.xml *.html *.pdf
diff --git a/doc/asciidoc.conf b/doc/asciidoc.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b8d95f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/asciidoc.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[titles]
+underlines="##","==","--","~~","^^"
+
diff --git a/doc/tutorial.txt b/doc/tutorial.txt
index 7183e41..5899c38 100644
--- a/doc/tutorial.txt
+++ b/doc/tutorial.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 StGIT Tutorial
-==============
+##############
 
-Introduction
-------------
 
 StGIT is a Python application that provides functionality similar to
 quilt (i.e. pushing/popping patches to/from a stack) using GIT instead
@@ -334,8 +332,11 @@ result in an empty patch (StGIT notifyin
 deleted.
 
 
-A Bit of StGIT Patch Theory
-===========================
+Technical Information
+=====================
+
+A bit of StGIT patch theory
+---------------------------
 
 We assume that a patch is a diff between two nodes - bottom and top. A
 node is a commit SHA1 id or tree SHA1 id in the GIT terminology:
@@ -374,8 +375,9 @@ The above operation allows easy patch re
 Removing (popping) a patch from the stack is done by simply setting the
 Nst to Nb.
 
-.git/ Directory Structure
 
+Layout of the .git directory
+----------------------------
 
   HEAD			-> refs/heads/<something>
   objects/
-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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