Re: Man Pages

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Burton
are living in KDE cvs under: kdesdk/debian kdetoys/debian koffice/debian Some (such as the kdesdk man pages) are quite explicit, others (such as the kdetoys pages) do little more than describe command-line options and show you the way to the HTML/DocBook docs. Feel free to use them; I'm happy t

Re: Man Pages

2001-10-10 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Friday 04 May 2001 10:00, Lauri Watts wrote: > Hi, > > We recently gained some volunteers to write man pages for the console/daemon > KDE apps, and so we've been doing some experimentation with DocBook to set > this up. Hi Lauri, What's the status of these e

Man pages

2001-05-08 Thread Lauri Watts
Hi, I wanted to thank you all for the man pages you sent me, or pointed me to in the KDE CVS. We're just working out the implementation details at the moment, but we should have it all sorted out within another few days. I'll convert the existing man pages and set up the locations

Re: Man pages (kdesdk, koffice)

2001-05-04 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
al pages. A cursory search through our CVS finds me a > > handful of these, three in the kdebase module to be precise. > > I have a set of man pages written for all the apps in kdesdk and koffice. In > particular this includes every command-line utility in kdesdk (of which there

Re: Man pages (kdesdk, koffice)

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Burton
> I don't know how the Debian system works. Is it possible to create a patch > that can be applied to the original man pages when the Debian packages are > created? Yes, certainly; I would be happy with this for the Debian-specific amendments. > I would be extremely happy fo

Re: Man Pages

2001-05-04 Thread David Bishop
I've been volunteered to be the debian man pages writer/coordinator, though as far as I know, I'm the only one doing it :-) I'll send you a quick followup email with the man pages I've written so far attached (I don't want to clutter the list), but you should be war

Re: Man pages (kdesdk, koffice)

2001-05-04 Thread Lauri Watts
On Friday 04 May 2001 10:27, Ben Burton wrote: > I have a set of man pages written for all the apps in kdesdk and koffice. > In particular this includes every command-line utility in kdesdk (of which > there are many). You can find them all in the CVS under kdesdk/debian/*.1 >

Man pages (kdesdk, koffice)

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Burton
the kdebase module to be precise. I have a set of man pages written for all the apps in kdesdk and koffice. In particular this includes every command-line utility in kdesdk (of which there are many). You can find them all in the CVS under kdesdk/debian/*.1 (and koffice/debian/*.1). Aspects o

Man Pages

2001-05-04 Thread Lauri Watts
Hi, We recently gained some volunteers to write man pages for the console/daemon KDE apps, and so we've been doing some experimentation with DocBook to set this up. We are specifically not wanting to use *roff as a source format, because we've gone to some lengths to automate an

man pages (kdebase/kioslave/help/kbuildsycoca.refentry.docbook

2001-05-03 Thread Achim Bohnet
ns about man pages so duplicate work can be prevented? Thx, Achim -- To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-17 Thread david
Thanks! I didn't know that, I'll rip those out of the konq man page, seperate them, and edit the ones I've done to refer to them. Luckily I've only got about five done so far. Lets see, at this rate, I'll be done with the kde man pages just in time for Gnome and KDE

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-17 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Friday 13 April 2001 04:02, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > > > Do you have a "template" or something we can work off of? If you had a > > standard > > here is one for konqueror I just threw together..probably still needs some > tweaks...but it's short sweet and to the point. FWIW the QT and K

Re: kde man pages

2001-04-16 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 10:29:57PM -0600, David Bishop wrote: > Okay, so I've got artsc-config, artsd, artscat, and artsdsp done. However, > I'm stuck on artsplay. What does it do, exactly? There is no documentation > on it (duh) and afaict, it doesn't support any sort of commandline help > s

kde man pages

2001-04-15 Thread David Bishop
Okay, so I've got artsc-config, artsd, artscat, and artsdsp done. However, I'm stuck on artsplay. What does it do, exactly? There is no documentation on it (duh) and afaict, it doesn't support any sort of commandline help switch (--help, -h, -?, and --h don't work). Using a google search, I

more man pages

2001-04-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
kdemultimedia: E: noatun: binary-without-manpage noatun E: mpeglib: binary-without-manpage yaf-cdda E: mpeglib: binary-without-manpage yaf-mpgplay E: mpeglib: binary-without-manpage yaf-splay E: mpeglib: binary-without-manpage yaf-tplay E: mpeglib: binary-without-manpage yaf-vorbis E: mpeglib: bin

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-13 Thread David Bishop
Just run 'man ./filename.1'. It will read the man page just like it was system-wide. I'm working on organizing that list Ivan sent out, and will repost it minus the dupes and grouped in a little bit. On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:26:31PM +1000, David Kempe wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2001 13:12, D

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-13 Thread David Kempe
On Friday 13 April 2001 13:12, David Bishop wrote: >3) A (probably) short list of people willing to help out Add me to that list, however How do we test the man page from Ivan's template once we have written it? I think the syntax is easy enough, I just want to know what its going to look like i

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-12 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> 1) A list of the packages that we need to do this for I can easily do this with lintian. :) once 2.2-alpha1 is out the door I'll create a list of all binaries that need man pages. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com G

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-12 Thread David Bishop
On Thursday 12 April 2001 20:02, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > Do you have a "template" or something we can work off of? If you had a > > standard > > here is one for konqueror I just threw together..probably still needs some > tweaks...but it's short sweet and to the point. > > Ivan So, call to ar

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-12 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> > Do you have a "template" or something we can work off of? If you had a > standard here is one for konqueror I just threw together..probably still needs some tweaks...but it's short sweet and to the point. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-12 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
man page..and just install konqueror you don't get the man page... plus I also think that some binaries should have their own man page... and other's will definatly need common man pages kfmclient,konqueror,khelpcenter - all should have a common man page IMO dcopser

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-12 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:50:48PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Ok...so as I work on these 2.2 packages one of the policy bits that is still > yet to be dealt with is man pages. According to policy every binary must > have a manpage. (even if there is a common one which others link

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-12 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
not to have to learn docbook for just a few > man > pages, but I'm fine with making up descriptions and copying/pasting > command-line > info). Thanks! I will create one. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD

Re: call for help with man pages

2001-04-12 Thread david
Do you have a "template" or something we can work off of? If you had a standard file that I could then plug in different binary names and info, that would help out immensly (i.e., I'd prefer not to have to learn docbook for just a few man pages, but I'm fine with making

call for help with man pages

2001-04-12 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Ok...so as I work on these 2.2 packages one of the policy bits that is still yet to be dealt with is man pages. According to policy every binary must have a manpage. (even if there is a common one which others link to) Well KDE doesn't do man pages...they do docbook...so I need help.

Help: UNIX Man pages in KDE Help

2001-03-23 Thread Toan Nguyen
Hello, How do I generate search index (in KDE help) for UNIX man pages. I have unstable debian, with htdig installed. When I press the button "update index" in KDE help, the scope section has "man pages" and "info pages" grayed out. I don't know if this function