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libvirt/docs/styleguide.rst
Daniel P. Berrangé fc721b0878 docs: add a minimal style guide for writing RST docs
Most importantly we document the required heading markup so that we get
consistency across the docs. Also mention that docs should have a table
of contents if they have headings & are likely longer than one page of
text.

The 3-space indent rule may sound wierd, but that's what python has
recommended and thus what tools like pandoc emit. Rather than try to
reindent things to 4-space, just accept this RST norm.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 15:48:28 +00:00

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=========================
Documentation style guide
=========================
.. contents::
The following documents some specific libvirt rules for writing docs in
reStructuredText
Table of contents
=================
Any document which uses headings and whose content is long enough to cause
scrolling when viewed in the browser must start with a table of contents.
This should be created using the default formatting:
::
.. contents::
Whitespace
==========
Blocks should be indented with 3 spaces, and no tabs
Headings
========
RST allows headings to be created simply by underlining with any punctuation
characters. Optionally the text may be overlined to.
For the sake of consistency, libvirt defines the following style requirement
which allows for 6 levels of headings
::
=========
Heading 1
=========
Heading 2
=========
Heading 3
---------
Heading 4
~~~~~~~~~
Heading 5
.........
Heading 6
^^^^^^^^^