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Revision as of 14:49, 19 April 2012
DocBook markup conventions
This page offers conventions for DocBook markup. Please modify this page as you come across more markup you need for the docs.openstack.org site.
General style conventions
- Use "OpenStack", not Openstack or openstack.
- Use Compute, Image, and Identity instead of nova, glance, and keystone
- Wrap lines to 70 characters.
euca2ools documentation
Since Nova exposes both its own API and an EC2-compatible API, many tasks can be executed using either the nova CLI or euca2ools. Documentation related to euca2ools should generally be limited to:
- Describing euca2ools commands that don't yet have a nova CLI equivalent (e.g., euca-get-console-output)
- Describing how to get credentials to work with euca2ools
- Describing differences between how Amazon's EC2 endpoint behaves and how an OpenStack endpoint behaves when accessing via EC2.
Sections
All section tags must have an xml:id attribute. This enables unique file names for the generated HTML and human-readable page titles, plus it lets Disqus threads stay with the HTML page:
<section xml:id="section-id-goes-here"> ... </section>
Links
External
<link xlink:href="http://www.example.com">Linked text here</link>
Internal
<link linkend="section-name-here">Linked text here</link>
Information or configuration files that the user has to type or read
Do not indent the text (open/close tags may be indented)
<programlisting> config-file-example=asdf foo=bar hello=world </programlisting>
Inline configuration information (option name or value)
<literal>--use_deprecated_auth</literal>
Configuration information when part should be replaced
<literal>http://<replaceable>IP_ADDRESS</replaceable>/foo/bar</literal>
Inline mention of a specific command
<command>nova-manage</command>
Command to type into a shell
Do not indent the text (open/close tags may be indented)
<screen> <prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>command as a regular usre</userinput> </screen>
<screen> <prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>command as root</userinput> </screen>
<screen> <prompt>(mysql)</prompt> <userinput>command to type</userinput> </screen>
Result of the command
Do not indent the text (open/close tags may be indented)
<screen> <computeroutput>result output goes here</computeroutput> </screen>
Note that this can be combined with a prompt and input:
<screen> <prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>command to type</userinput> <computeroutput>result output goes here</computeroutput> </screen>
File names
<filename>/my/file/is/here</filename>
File contents
<programlisting> contents of a file </programlisting>
Ordered procedure to follow (where step 2 needs to be done after step 1)
<orderedlist> <listitem><para>...</para></listitem> </orderedlist>
Instructions to follow with no critical dependency across steps
<itemizedlist> <listitem><para>...</para></listitem> </itemizedlist>
A list in key/value form
<variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>key</term> <listitem>value</listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>key</term> <listitem>value</listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist>
Notes
You can specify a Note callout box by doing:
<note><para>...</para></note>
Embedding images
Example:
<mediaobject> <imageobject role="fo"> <imagedata fileref="figures/dashboard-overview.png" format="PNG" scale="60"/> </imageobject> <imageobject role="html"> <imagedata fileref="figures/dashboard-overview.png" format="PNG" /> </imageobject> </mediaobject>