documentation/README: align with master

(From yocto-docs rev: 8638eadda09e932534eb6bb345b4d0299974b219)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/README b/documentation/README
index 6f6a8ec842..4d31036e69 100644
--- a/documentation/README
+++ b/documentation/README
@@ -34,16 +34,18 @@ Manual Organization
 
 Here the folders corresponding to individual manuals:
 
+* brief-yoctoprojectqs - Yocto Project Quick Start
 * overview-manual      - Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual
-* sdk-manual           - Yocto Project Software Development Kit (SDK) Developer's Guide.
+* contributor-guide    - Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded Contributor Guide
+* ref-manual           - Yocto Project Reference Manual
 * bsp-guide            - Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide
 * dev-manual           - Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual
 * kernel-dev           - Yocto Project Linux Kernel Development Manual
-* ref-manual           - Yocto Project Reference Manual
-* brief-yoctoprojectqs - Yocto Project Quick Start
 * profile-manual       - Yocto Project Profiling and Tracing Manual
+* sdk-manual           - Yocto Project Software Development Kit (SDK) Developer's Guide.
 * toaster-manual       - Toaster User Manual
 * test-manual          - Yocto Project Test Environment Manual
+* migration-guides     - Yocto Project Release and Migration Notes
 
 Each folder is self-contained regarding content and figures.
 
@@ -129,6 +131,10 @@ Also install the "inkscape" package from your distribution.
 Inkscape is need to convert SVG graphics to PNG (for EPUB
 export) and to PDF (for PDF export).
 
+Additionally install "fncychap.sty" TeX font if you want to build PDFs. Debian
+and Ubuntu have it in "texlive-latex-extra" package while RedHat distributions
+and OpenSUSE have it in "texlive-fncychap" package for example.
+
 To build the documentation locally, run:
 
  $ cd documentation
@@ -271,6 +277,19 @@ websites.
 More information can be found here:
 https://sublime-and-sphinx-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/references.html.
 
+For external links, we use this syntax:
+`link text <link URL>`__
+
+instead of:
+`link text <link URL>`_
+
+Both syntaxes work, but the latter also creates a "link text" reference
+target which could conflict with other references with the same name.
+So, only use this variant when you wish to make multiple references
+to this link, reusing only the target name.
+
+See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27420317/restructured-text-rst-http-links-underscore-vs-use
+
 Anchor (<#link>) links are forbidden as they are not checked by Sphinx during
 the build and may be broken without knowing about it.
 
@@ -340,13 +359,16 @@ The sphinx.ext.intersphinx extension is enabled by default
 so that we can cross reference content from other Sphinx based
 documentation projects, such as the BitBake manual.
 
-References to the BitBake manual can be done:
+References to the BitBake manual can directly be done:
  - With a specific description instead of the section name:
-  :ref:`Azure Storage fetcher (az://) <bitbake:bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching:fetchers>`
+  :ref:`Azure Storage fetcher (az://) <bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching:fetchers>`
  - With the section name:
-  :ref:`bitbake:bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro:usage and syntax` option
- - Linking to the entire BitBake manual:
-  :doc:`BitBake User Manual <bitbake:index>`
+  :ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro:usage and syntax` option
+
+If you want to refer to an entire document (or chapter) in the BitBake manual,
+you have to use the ":doc:" macro with the "bitbake:" prefix:
+ - :doc:`BitBake User Manual <bitbake:index>`
+ - :doc:`bitbake:bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata`" chapter
 
 Note that a reference to a variable (:term:`VARIABLE`) automatically points to
 the BitBake manual if the variable is not described in the Reference Manual's Variable Glossary.
@@ -355,6 +377,11 @@ BitBake manual as follows:
 
   :term:`bitbake:BB_NUMBER_PARSE_THREADS`
 
+This would be the same if we had identical document filenames in
+both the Yocto Project and BitBake manuals:
+
+  :ref:`bitbake:directory/file:section title`
+
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