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authorNicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org>2020-06-26 19:10:51 +0200
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This commit is autogenerated pandoc to generate an inital set of reST files based on DocBook XML files. A .rst file is generated for each .xml files in all manuals with this command: cd <manual> for i in *.xml; do \ pandoc -f docbook -t rst --shift-heading-level-by=-1 \ $i -o $(basename $i .xml).rst \ done The conversion was done with: pandoc 2.9.2.1-91 (Arch Linux). Also created an initial top level index file for each document, and added all 'books' to the top leve index.rst file. The YP manuals layout is organized as: Book Chapter Section Section Section Sphinx uses section headers to create the document structure. ReStructuredText defines sections headers like that: To break longer text up into sections, you use section headers. These are a single line of text (one or more words) with adornment: an underline alone, or an underline and an overline together, in dashes "-----", equals "======", tildes "~~~~~~" or any of the non-alphanumeric characters = - ` : ' " ~ ^ _ * + # < > that you feel comfortable with. An underline-only adornment is distinct from an overline-and-underline adornment using the same character. The underline/overline must be at least as long as the title text. Be consistent, since all sections marked with the same adornment style are deemed to be at the same level: Let's define the following convention when converting from Docbook: Book => overline === (Title) Chapter => overline *** (1.) Section => ==== (1.1) Section => ---- (1.1.1) Section => ~~~~ (1.1.1.1) Section => ^^^^ (1.1.1.1.1) During the conversion with pandoc, we used --shift-heading-level=-1 to convert most of DocBook headings automatically. However with this setting, the Chapter header was removed, so I added it back manually. Without this setting all headings were off by one, which was more difficult to manually fix. At least with this change, we now have the same TOC with Sphinx and DocBook. (From yocto-docs rev: 3c73d64a476d4423ee4c6808c685fa94d88d7df8) Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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1******************************************
2The Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual
3******************************************
4
5.. _dev-welcome:
6
7Welcome
8=======
9
10Welcome to the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual! This manual
11provides relevant procedures necessary for developing in the Yocto
12Project environment (i.e. developing embedded Linux images and
13user-space applications that run on targeted devices). The manual groups
14related procedures into higher-level sections. Procedures can consist of
15high-level steps or low-level steps depending on the topic.
16
17This manual provides the following:
18
19- Procedures that help you get going with the Yocto Project. For
20 example, procedures that show you how to set up a build host and work
21 with the Yocto Project source repositories.
22
23- Procedures that show you how to submit changes to the Yocto Project.
24 Changes can be improvements, new features, or bug fixes.
25
26- Procedures related to "everyday" tasks you perform while developing
27 images and applications using the Yocto Project. For example,
28 procedures to create a layer, customize an image, write a new recipe,
29 and so forth.
30
31This manual does not provide the following:
32
33- Redundant Step-by-step Instructions: For example, the `Yocto Project
34 Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit
35 (eSDK) <&YOCTO_DOCS_SDK_URL;>`__ manual contains detailed
36 instructions on how to install an SDK, which is used to develop
37 applications for target hardware.
38
39- Reference or Conceptual Material: This type of material resides in an
40 appropriate reference manual. For example, system variables are
41 documented in the `Yocto Project Reference
42 Manual <&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;>`__.
43
44- Detailed Public Information Not Specific to the Yocto Project: For
45 example, exhaustive information on how to use the Source Control
46 Manager Git is better covered with Internet searches and official Git
47 Documentation than through the Yocto Project documentation.
48
49Other Information
50=================
51
52Because this manual presents information for many different topics,
53supplemental information is recommended for full comprehension. For
54introductory information on the Yocto Project, see the `Yocto Project
55Website <&YOCTO_HOME_URL;>`__. If you want to build an image with no
56knowledge of Yocto Project as a way of quickly testing it out, see the
57`Yocto Project Quick Build <&YOCTO_DOCS_BRIEF_URL;>`__ document.
58
59For a comprehensive list of links and other documentation, see the
60"`Links and Related
61Documentation <&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#resources-links-and-related-documentation>`__"
62section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.