New manual format now online

Submitted by paul on Sat, 2007-02-03 11:14
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After some sustained work by long-time Ardour contributor Tim Mayberry, the manual pages have been reformatted as DocBook XML and then rendered to a new online format. You can see the results in the usual place; I think they look great. Tim and others are still working on fine tuning the CSS file used for online formatting, so expect to see a few more changes. We will also be investigating options for keeping a Wiki-style system for editing. For the time being, the "source code" to the manual lives in subversion, under manual/ at the top level.

If you would like to help, documentation for DocBook is here.

Comments

Submitted by timbyr on Sun, 2007-02-04 00:48.

I'd like to add that although the readability of the manual is important I would like to help focus on improving the content so if anyone has a suggestion regarding the manual style it would be helpful if they could be made via the bug tracker.

I intend to make some information available for people who are not familiar with DocBook and I filed a bug to do remind me to do that but I don't consider it absolutely necessary to contribute documentation. A patch containing the modifications to the docbook source is preferred but if a documentation bug is filed with some accompanying documentation in an open format I am willing to do the conversion.

There is a fair amount of information available about DocBook but a friend of mine created a somewhat simplified diagram of a common toolchain used to process DocBook XML source into formats such as HTML and PDF which may help give some understanding.

toolchain workflow

One aspect of using DocBook for documentation is that it has good support for content localization, but in saying that it is a fairly complicated process and some time will be needed to implement support for it.

Submitted by apmontgo on Fri, 2009-04-17 12:43.

The link in Paul's main post above is broken. "in the usual place" should point to http://ardour.org/files/manual/index.html not https://ardour.org/node/files/manual/index.html

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Submitted by Artee (not verified) on Mon, 2009-04-20 15:15.

This looks like something new. When will it be released? Will it be bug-free?
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Submitted by david1212 on Mon, 2009-04-20 21:17.

Nice article and pictorial representation. Documentation is one the key work for any kind of work. This confirms that the work is not deviated from the track. Using DocBook to the apt application will definitely reduce the turn around time of the entire project. Using the latest version [hopefully V5.0 as of now] will ease your work.

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Submitted by dave121 on Sun, 2009-04-26 04:33.

The manual pages are really hard to use. This reformatted DocBook XML is really helpful for us. Additional and attractive part is, it is available online now. What makes me to the top of world is noticing that Tim and others are still working on fine tuning it. So as the result will be.
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Submitted by Karen112 on Tue, 2009-05-05 00:56.

The latest version DocBook V5.0 is handy to use and good bug fix release. This schema available in different languages is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software. Overall - too good too simple.
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Submitted by adamadam on Tue, 2009-05-05 08:07.

I hope the current version of DocBook V5.0 was 5.0. Almost all of the information in this document is general and applies to any newer version of DocBook V5.0.

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Submitted by Jonesy88 on Mon, 2009-05-11 14:28.

This looks like a great addition. I like the colour coded diagram, this helps a lot in explaining things.

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Submitted by sunita on Sun, 2009-05-31 08:21.

For Mac OS X 10.4.x users a Universal Binary version is available for download (a 10.3.x version can be made upon request) and of course source code is available for Linux users (via SVN).

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Submitted by carlease on Fri, 2009-06-12 13:13.

Thanks to Tim Mayberry for doing this job. We the users of ardour have been looking long times for this opportunities. At least we have got it. However it is a brilliant work. I would appreciate it. Car lease

Submitted by JOhn on Mon, 2009-06-15 14:03.

Hi there, I know this is an old post but the manual is still really useful. Someone has obviously put the time into this. Thanks John - Eco Products

Submitted by seo22 on Sat, 2009-06-20 15:40.

Because DocBook is a non-binary format, you can use any plaintext editor like emacs, pico, Windows Notepad or vi to write your documentation. Say thanks if you like my reply.

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Submitted by LinkBuilder on Thu, 2009-06-25 06:34.

Thanks timbyr for the image! The diagram helped me to get what was told in the article!

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Submitted by ftafiles (not verified) on Mon, 2009-07-06 04:59.

I finally got my Summercode report written. This means that when I get confirmation that it is good enough for the project coordinators, my project is over. However, I will still be giving a short presentation regarding the project at the Openmind conference on Tuesday October 7th in Tampere, Finland.

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Submitted by Aneekalam on Tue, 2009-07-21 06:02.

This looks awesome addition. I like the color diagram, this helps a lot in explaining this article.

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Submitted by Aneekalam on Tue, 2009-07-21 06:04.

Thanks to Tim Mayberry. At least we have got it. However it is a great work. I would appreciate it.

Keeping it up.

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Submitted by Aneekalam on Wed, 2009-07-29 10:15.

This confirms that the work is not deviated from the track. This means that when I get confirmation that it is good enough for the project coordinators, my project is over

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Submitted by abi on Thu, 2009-08-27 12:22.

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Submitted by plairs on Mon, 2009-08-31 21:06.

This is a very good documentation phrase as stated in the Book Reports. A patch containing the modifications to the docbook source is preferred but if a documentation bug is filed with some accompanying documentation. Regards,
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Submitted by barclaybenson on Thu, 2009-09-03 04:12.

I thing tim is doing a great job in fine tuning the CSS file used for online formatting. I think he should more things in it.
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Submitted by barclaybenson on Thu, 2009-09-03 05:19.

Great job Tim
You have reformatted manual pages as DocBook XML and then rendered to a new online format. I would like to know more.
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Submitted by azzta on Thu, 2009-09-10 13:30.

The latest version DocBook V5.0 is handy to use and good bug fix release. This schema available in different languages is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software. Overall - too good too nice.

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Submitted by rebeccalaing on Fri, 2009-09-18 12:58.

This confirms that the work is not deviated from the track. This means that when I get confirmation that it is good enough for the project coordinators, my project is over

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Submitted by valers on Sat, 2009-09-19 02:20.

Good post.