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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 01/01: doc: Typos and small stylistic changes.
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 16:26:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160306152646.GA16301@solar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuw3d8ip.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 02:46:06PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> It is painful but necessary:
>   https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Doc-Strings-and-Manuals.html#Doc-Strings-and-Manuals
> A way to understand why this is important is to read some of the
> "documentation" used by the Java APIs.

I agree. However, here we _do_ copy verbatim docstrings from the source code
into the manual, which is also fine. And then we are expected to back-port
changes to the supposedly manually written manual :-)  back to the docstrings.
So it would be nice if there were a system to just include selected
docstrings; a texinfo command @docstring{guix-service-type} or something like
that. But I think it does not exist.

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-06 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20160305152745.10002.35086@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1acE7O-0002cK-0Z@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-03-05 21:48   ` 01/01: doc: Typos and small stylistic changes Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-06 13:10     ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-06 13:46       ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-06 15:26         ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2016-03-06 19:13           ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-06 23:10       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-06 16:02     ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-09  9:02   ` Alex Kost
2016-03-11 14:19     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-14 19:58     ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-15 16:20       ` Ludovic Courtès

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