X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-docs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.adoc;h=ed031141cf3e1be4673fefb1683750383cea542e;hp=6d2e570e67e6e327e51cbfbf3a43a5d30e6ae7c2;hb=7cb0d9a3efae26d44759e8eb5c7a7b1e498d4bec;hpb=8e6e64116e8b6f207764a853c7959705aacf5be1 diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index 6d2e570..ed03114 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -2,19 +2,46 @@ Proxmox VE Documentation ======================== include::attributes.txt[] -What is this? -------------- - -This is an experimental project, trying to generate high quality -documentation for http://www.proxmox.com[Proxmox VE]. We choose to use +We try to generate high quality documentation for +http://www.proxmox.com[Proxmox VE], and choose to use http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/[AsciiDoc] as base format. -One idea is to generate high quality manual pages, and assemble them -into a complete book, called link:pve-admin-guide.adoc[Proxmox VE +The basic idea is to generate high quality manual pages, and assemble +them into a complete book, called link:pve-admin-guide.adoc[Proxmox VE Administration Guide]. So we have one source, and generate several documents from that. It is also possible to generate printable PDF files, or ebook formats ('.ebup'). +When possible, we provide scripts to extract API definitions, +configuration or command line options from the source code. + +To simplify the documentation task, we keep all Documentation within +this repository. It is possible to generate the docs without installing +any additional Proxmox packages with: + + make index + +To update the auto-generate API definitions use: + + make update + +NOTE: you need a fully installed development environment for that. + + +Debian Packages +--------------- + +We generate a development package called 'pve-doc-generator', which is +used by other Proxmox VE package to generate manual pages at package +build time. + +Another package called 'pve-docs' is used to publish generated +'.html' and '.pdf' files on our web servers. You can generate +those debian packages using: + + make deb + + Common Macro definition in link:attributes.txt[] ------------------------------------------------ @@ -24,8 +51,6 @@ consistency. For example, we defined a macro called `pve`, which expands to "Proxmox VE". The plan is to add more such definitions for terms which are used more than once. -NOTE: The github 'asciidoc' viewer does not expand those macros. - Autogenerated CLI Command Synopsis ----------------------------------