Re: ncurses Documentation

Mehdi wrote:

Good day, I'm developing an ncurses console application for work and have already come across discrepencies and omissions in the ncurses section of the manual. As I work through these issues, I'd like to help and update the manual. How would I go about this?

Hi, Thank you for your proposition. You can write a little documentation, put it online and send a link to this mailing list, it will be checked and integrated to the manual by one of the documentation maintainer.

Ok, sounds like a plan. I do have a couple followup questions, however. I'd like to check out the documentation (if just the ncurses are, fine, if the whole thing, fine as well) so that I can work with it local and make any edits. I understand that it is in XML (Docbook) format. Preferably, is there a way to render it to plain-text? And, most importantly, what areas of CVS do I need to checkout? It looks as though /phpdoc would be it from the doc-howto, but it's empty, and I notice extraneous directores in CVS' root such as docstuff, features and functable. Is this what I should be checking out? Thank you, Hans

Best regards, Mehdi Achour