These directories contain the documents themselves. The documentation is split into up to three more categories at this level, indicated by the different directory names.
Directory | Usage |
---|---|
articles | Documentation marked up as a DocBook
article (or equivalent). Reasonably
short, and broken up into sections. Normally only
available as one XHTML file. |
books | Documentation marked up as a DocBook
book (or equivalent). Book length,
and broken up into chapters. Normally available as both
one large XHTML file (for people with
fast connections, or who want to print it easily from a
browser) and as a collection of linked, smaller
files. |
man | For translations of the system manual pages. This
directory will contain one or more man
directories, corresponding to the sections that have
been translated. |
Not every
directory will have all of these subdirectories. It depends on
how much translation has been accomplished by that translation
team.lang
.encoding
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