Fixed #8996 -- Fixed small typo in documentation.txt. Thanks, rduffield

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@8997 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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Adrian Holovaty 2008-09-10 04:04:57 +00:00
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@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ The main thing to keep in mind as you write and edit docs is that the more
semantic markup you can add the better. So::
Add ``django.contrib.auth`` to your ``INSTALLED_APPS``...
Isn't nearly as helpful as::
Add :mod:`django.contrib.auth` to your :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`...
This is because Sphinx will generate proper links for the later, which greatly
This is because Sphinx will generate proper links for the latter, which greatly
helps readers. There's basically no limit to the amount of useful markup you can
add.
@ -45,39 +45,39 @@ Besides the `Sphinx built-in markup`__, Django's docs defines some extra descrip
__ http://sphinx.pocoo.org/markup/desc.html
* Settings::
.. setting:: INSTALLED_APPS
To link to a setting, use ``:setting:`INSTALLED_APPS```.
* Template tags::
.. templatetag:: regroup
To link, use ``:ttag:`regroup```.
* Template filters::
.. templatefilter:: linebreaksbr
To link, use ``:tfilter:`linebreaksbr```.
* Field lookups (i.e. ``Foo.objects.filter(bar__exact=whatever)``)::
.. fieldlookup:: exact
To link, use ``:lookup:`exact```.
* ``django-admin`` commands::
.. django-admin:: syncdb
To link, use ``:djadmin:`syncdb```.
* ``django-admin`` command-line options::
.. django-admin-option:: --traceback
To link, use ``:djadminopt:`--traceback```.
An example
@ -86,25 +86,25 @@ An example
For a quick example of how it all fits together, check this out:
* First, the ``ref/settings.txt`` document starts out like this::
.. _ref-settings:
Available settings
==================
...
* Next, if you look at the ``topics/settings.txt`` document, you can see how
a link to ``ref/settings`` works::
Available settings
==================
For a full list of available settings, see the :ref:`settings reference
<ref-settings>`.
* Next, notice how the settings (right now just the top few) are annotated::
.. setting:: ADMIN_FOR
ADMIN_FOR
@ -115,14 +115,14 @@ For a quick example of how it all fits together, check this out:
Used for admin-site settings modules, this should be a tuple of settings
modules (in the format ``'foo.bar.baz'``) for which this site is an
admin.
The admin site uses this in its automatically-introspected
documentation of models, views and template tags.
This marks up the following header as the "canonical" target for the
setting ``ADMIN_FOR`` This means any time I talk about ``ADMIN_FOR``, I
can reference it using ``:setting:`ADMIN_FOR```.
That's basically how everything fits together.
TODO
@ -134,45 +134,45 @@ The work is mostly done, but here's what's left, in rough order of priority.
this TODO item my permission and license) into
``topics/generic-views.txt``; remove the intro material from
``ref/generic-views.txt`` and just leave the function reference.
* Change the "Added/changed in development version" callouts to proper
Sphinx ``.. versionadded::`` or ``.. versionchanged::`` directives.
* Check for and fix malformed links. Do this by running ``make linkcheck``
and fix all of the 300+ errors/warnings.
In particular, look at all the relative links; these need to be
In particular, look at all the relative links; these need to be
changed to proper references.
* Most of the various ``index.txt`` documents have *very* short or even
non-existent intro text. Each of those documents needs a good short intro
the content below that point.
* The glossary is very perfunctory. It needs to be filled out.
* Add more metadata targets: there's lots of places that look like::
``File.close()``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
\... these should be::
.. method:: File.close()
That is, use metadata instead of titles.
* Add more links -- nearly everything that's an inline code literal
right now can probably be turned into a xref.
right now can probably be turned into a xref.
See the ``literals_to_xrefs.py`` file in ``_ext`` -- it's a shell script
to help do this work.
This will probably be a continuing, never-ending project.
* Add `info field lists`__ where appropriate.
__ http://sphinx.pocoo.org/markup/desc.html#info-field-lists
* Add ``.. code-block:: <lang>`` to literal blocks so that they get
highlighted.
@ -189,14 +189,14 @@ Some hints for making things look/read better:
"crossref" directives. Others (``.. class::``, e.g.) generate their own
markup; these should go inside the section they're describing. These are
called "description units".
You can tell which are which by looking at in :file:`_ext/djangodocs.py`;
it registers roles as one of the other.
* When referring to classes/functions/modules, etc., you'll want to use the
fully-qualified name of the target
(``:class:`django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType```).
(``:class:`django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType```).
Since this doesn't look all that awesome in the output -- it shows the
entire path to the object -- you can prefix the target with a ``~``
(that's a tilde) to get just the "last bit" of that path. So