spec: Fix the escaping of special characters in Interfaces section

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Fri Feb 24 12:02:13 PST 2012


On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:34:52 -0500
Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:54:41 +0200
> > Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/16/2012 03:46 PM, Michael Hasselmann wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 15:40 +0200, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> >> >> On 02/16/2012 01:42 PM, Michael Hasselmann wrote:
> >> >>> Hi,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> just noticed these small issues while going through the available
> >> >>> Wayland documentation.
> >> >>
> >> >> FYI, this short-circuit with the idea of dynamically dump the interfaces
> >> >> on the doc - check last commit there mainly:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~vignatti/wayland/log/?h=tex
> >> >
> >> > Ah yes, makes of course more sense to generate that section, since the
> >> > information is already available.  And I see that you already included
> >> > the escaping for underscores, but not yet for ampersands (they will be
> >> > simply skipped, which makes the text a bit funny to read).
> >>
> >> right, we can deal with ampersand or other tex formats later then.
> >>
> >> I think the most important now is to decide whether we want an auto-dump
> >> of the protocol descriptions on the documentation tex or not. So if is
> >> our intention to keep that documentation up to date and alive, then it
> >> makes perfect sense for me. I didn't hear anything from Kristian about
> >> it yet though.
> >
> > Yeah I'd like to see it auto-dumped to the website, perhaps with a
> > commit hook on the various branches (right now just master and 0.85).
> >
> > Kristian, any preference?
> 
> Did you see Peters work to merge the protocol into a docbook document?
>  It's here:
> 
>   http://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/Wayland/tmp/en-US/html/
> 
> I set up a hook so that when I push to my private repo (can't set up
> hooks on git.fdo), the xslt stylesheet Peter submitted earlier gets
> run and we put the output here:

Can't we set up some hooks on the main site?  We have them already for
sending to the commits list...

> 
>   http://wayland.freedesktop.org/protocol.html
> 
> but I think we want to go with Peters approach of using docbook and
> move the spec latex document into a docbook template that we can merge
> the protocol into.

Yeah that sounds good.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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