we only have three uses at the moment, all of them in code blocks where
they could just as well (or maybe better) be comments. markdown can't do
callouts without another pandoc filter, so we'll turn them into comments
instead.
synapse would've benefited from inline links, but referencing an
external numbered list as plain text (instead of clickable links, like
callout lists had) seems even worse than putting urls into comments as
plain text.
productname, application, acronym, guilabel, and guibutton were so far
not rendered specially and can go away completely.
replaceable does render differently, but since it was only used twice
and in places where the intent should be clear without the extra markup
it can go as well.
makes sure that program listing tags are separated from their contents
by exactly a newline character. this makes the markdown translation
easier to verify (since no new newlines need to be inserted), and
there's no rendering difference anyway.
markdown cannot represent those links. remove them all now instead of in
each chapter conversion to keep the diff for each chapter small and more
understandable.
If a configuration does not use services that depend on the
stateVersion, it does not need to be set.
This provides an incentive for services not to rely on
stateVersion, and not to burden users with this.
The change that allows setting the secrets by an environment file had
the undocumented side effect of allowing to set any key by the environment
file (Related PR: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-telegram/pull/332).
This is required to e.g. set `bridge.login_shared_secret`, which was not
documented before.
GitHub: closes#103347
conversions were done using https://github.com/pennae/nix-doc-munge
using (probably) rev f34e145 running
nix-doc-munge nixos/**/*.nix
nix-doc-munge --import nixos/**/*.nix
the tool ensures that only changes that could affect the generated
manual *but don't* are committed, other changes require manual review
and are discarded.
These are now required otherwise startup fails with:
> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable
The chosen levels are stricter than default but don't require unsupported signing or DB editing so seem like a reasonable high bar for now. It is easy for users to lower the levels so it is better to be stricter by default.
Default levels: 0ce0588725/mautrix_facebook/example-config.yaml (L247-L263)
now nix-doc-munge will not introduce whitespace changes when it replaces
manpage references with the MD equivalent.
no change to the manpage, changes to the HTML manual are whitespace only.
make (almost) all links appear on only a single line, with no
unnecessary whitespace, using double quotes for attributes. this lets us
automatically convert them to markdown easily.
the few remaining links are extremely long link in a gnome module, we'll
come back to those at a later date.
our xslt already replaces double line breaks with a paragraph close and
reopen. not using explicit para tags lets nix-doc-munge convert more
descriptions losslessly.
only whitespace changes to generated documents, except for two
strongswan options gaining paragraph two breaks they arguably should've
had anyway.
the conversion procedure is simple:
- find all things that look like options, ie calls to either `mkOption`
or `lib.mkOption` that take an attrset. remember the attrset as the
option
- for all options, find a `description` attribute who's value is not a
call to `mdDoc` or `lib.mdDoc`
- textually convert the entire value of the attribute to MD with a few
simple regexes (the set from mdize-module.sh)
- if the change produced a change in the manual output, discard
- if the change kept the manual unchanged, add some text to the
description to make sure we've actually found an option. if the
manual changes this time, keep the converted description
this procedure converts 80% of nixos options to markdown. around 2000
options remain to be inspected, but most of those fail the "does not
change the manual output check": currently the MD conversion process
does not faithfully convert docbook tags like <code> and <package>, so
any option using such tags will not be converted at all.
* Update attribute names in code examples (* -> settings.*).
* Use `nix-shell -p` rather than `nix run` because the example won't
work with the current default Nix.
* Update config values for `element-web`.
* Fix link to `element-web` security considerations.
* Make the synapse expression even smaller and use callout-lists to
explain the code.
* Document how to correctly deploy the shared registration secret.
[1] https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#getwell-knownmatrixclient
