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| |
| Guide to FreeMarker Manual for Editors |
| ====================================== |
| |
| Non-technical |
| ------------- |
| |
| - The Template Author's Guide is for Web designers. Assume that a |
| designer is not a programmer, (s)he doesn't even know what is Java. |
| Forget that FM is implemented in Java when you edit the Template |
| Author's Guide. Try to avoid technical writing. |
| |
| - In the Guide chapters, be careful not to mention things that were |
| not explained earlier. The Guide chapters should be understandable |
| if you read them continuously. |
| |
| - If you add a new topic or term, don't forget to add it to the Index. |
| Also, consider adding entries for it to the Glossary. |
| |
| - Don't use too sophisticated English. Use basic words and grammar. |
| |
| |
| Technical |
| --------- |
| |
| - For the editing use XXE (XMLmind XML Editor), with its default XML |
| *source* formatting settings (identation, max line length and like). |
| You should install the "DocBook 5 for Freemarker" addon, which you can |
| find inside the "docgen" top-level SVN module. |
| |
| - The HTML is generated with Docgen (docgen.jar), which will check some |
| of the rules described here. To invoke it, issue "ant manual" from |
| the root of the "freemarker" module. (Note: you may need to check out |
| and build "docgen" first.) |
| |
| - Understand all document conventions in the Preface chapter. Note that |
| all "programlisting"-s should have a "role" attribute with a value that |
| is either: "template", "dataModel", "output", "metaTemplate" or |
| "unspecified". (If you miss this, the XXE addon will show the |
| "programlisting" in red.) |
| |
| - Verbatim content in flow text: |
| |
| * In flow text, all data object names, class names, FTL fragments, |
| HTML fragments, and all other verbatim content is inside "literal" |
| element. |
| |
| * Use replaceable element inside literal element for replaceable |
| parts and meta-variables like: |
| <literal<if <replaceable>condition</replaceable>></literal> |
| <literal><replaceable>templateDir</replaceable>/copyright.ftl</literal> |
| |
| - Hierarchy: |
| |
| * The hierarchy should look like: |
| |
| book -> part -> chapter -> section -> section -> section -> section |
| |
| where the "part" and the "section"-s are optional. |
| Instead of chapter you may have "preface" or "appendix". |
| |
| * Don't use "sect1", "sect2", etc. Instead nest "section"-s into each other, |
| but not deeper than 3 levels. |
| |
| * Use "simplesect" if you want to divide up something visually, but |
| you don't want those sections to appear in the ToC, or go into their own |
| HTML page. "simplesect"-s can appear under all "section" nesting |
| levels, and they always look the same regardless of the "section" |
| nesting levels. |
| |
| - Lists: |
| |
| * When you have list where the list items are short (a few words), |
| you should give spacing="compact" to the "itemizedlist" or |
| "orderedlist" element. |
| |
| * Don't putting listings inside "para"-s. Put them between "para"-s instead. |
| |
| - Xrefs, id-s, links: |
| |
| * id-s of parts, chapters, sections and similar elements must |
| contain US-ASCII lower case letters, US-ASCII numbers, and |
| underscore only. id-s of parts and chapters are used as the |
| filenames of HTML-s generated for that block. |
| When you find out the id, deduce it from the position in the ToC |
| hierarchy. The underscore is used as the separator between the path |
| steps. |
| |
| * All other id-s must use prefix: |
| - example: E.g.: id="example.foreach" |
| - ref: Reference information... |
| * directive: about a directive. E.g.: "ref.directive.foreach" |
| * builtin |
| - gloss: Term in the Glossary |
| - topic: The recommended point of document in a certain topic |
| * designer: for designers. |
| E.g.: id="topic.designer.methodDataObject" |
| * programmer: for programmers |
| * or omit the secondary category if it is for everybody |
| - misc: Anything doesn't fit in the above categories |
| |
| * When you refer to a part, chapter or section, often you should use |
| xref, not link. The xreflabel attribute of the link-end should not be set; |
| then it's deduced from the titles. |
| |
| - The "book" element must have this attribute: conformance="docgen" |
