Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] qemu-img: Convert invocation documentation to rST

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> The qemu-img documentation is currently in qemu-nbd.texi in Texinfo
> format, which we present to the user as:
>  * a qemu-img manpage
>  * a section of the main qemu-doc HTML documentation
>
> Convert the documentation to rST format, and present it to the user as:
>  * a qemu-img manpage
>  * part of the interop/ Sphinx manual
>
> The qemu-img rST document uses the new hxtool extension
> to handle pulling rST fragments out of qemu-img-cmds.hx.
>
> The documentation of the various options and commands is rather
> muddled, with some options being described inside the relevant
> command description and some in a more general section near the start
> of the manual.  All the command synopses are replicated in the .hx
> file and then again in the manual.  A lot of text is also duplicated
> in the qemu-img.c code for the help text.  I have not attempted to
> deal with any of this, but have simply transposed the existing
> structure into rST.
>
> As usual, there are some minor formatting changes but no
> textual changes, except that as with one or two other conversions
> I have dropped the 'see also' section since it's not very
> informative and looks odd in the HTML.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>

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Alex Bennée