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Re: READ-ME (text-file) formatting request

Postby Hooray » Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:33 pm

That solves a problem within FlightGear itself, but what about individual aircraft packages? (Which, by the way, is what prompted this thread in the first place.)


As of 2.10, we do have a pretty simple, but integrated, "doc file viewer" (for plain text) that also handles CR/LF for different platforms properly.

It is up to aircraft developers to make use of that feature, or provide docs in another format, such as PDF. We can only really "enforce" best-practices by requiring base package aircraft to follow certain rules.

It would be possible to use the canvas system to render formatted output, i.e. a subset of HTML or even LaTex
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Re: READ-ME (text-file) formatting request

Postby Hooray » Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:22 pm

A LaTex/PDF wrapper is now implemented and added by Stuart as part of 2.12+ https://gitorious.org/fg/getstart/commi ... 05560cce0b

For the PDF, see: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/git/?p= ... df;hb=HEAD
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Re: READ-ME (text-file) formatting request

Postby Johan G » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:20 pm

There should probably be guidelines for the allowed line width, say for example 60 characters. As of now there is a lot of lines extending past the document edge or getting too close.

But for a first try it looks good (apart from line lengths in some cases) and the links in the table of contents works. :)
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Re: READ-ME (text-file) formatting request

Postby Hooray » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:45 pm

LaTex should actually handle such issues.

I haven't checked, but I think it's because Stuart's Perl script is directly embedding the text file and doesn't use any latex markup to control line-wrapping behavior through some parameter. Thus, the perl script would need to insert CR/LF in this case.

EDIT: Stuart just committed a fix: https://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/commit/ ... b64d1ffda9
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