| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+: |
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| Documentation Style |
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| Documentation is crucial for the U-Boot project. It has to encompass the needs |
| of different reader groups from first time users to developers and maintainers. |
| This requires different types of documentation like tutorials, how-to-guides, |
| explanatory texts, and reference. |
| |
| We want to be able to generate documentation in different target formats. We |
| therefore use `Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org>`_ for the generation of |
| documents from reStructured text. |
| |
| We apply the following rules: |
| |
| * Documentation files are located in *doc/* or its sub-directories. |
| * Each documentation file is added to an index page to allow navigation |
| to the document. |
| * For documentation we use reStructured text conforming to the requirements |
| of `Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org>`_. |
| * For documentation within code we follow the Linux kernel guide |
| `Writing kernel-doc comments <https://docs.kernel.org/doc-guide/kernel-doc.html>`_. |
| * We try to stick to 80 columns per line in documents. |
| * For tables we prefer simple tables over grid tables. We avoid list tables |
| as they make the reStructured text documents hard to read. |
| * Before submitting documentation patches we build the HTML documentation and |
| fix all warnings. The build process is described in |
| :doc:`/build/documentation`. |
