Wine Documentation README


Wine Man Page

  The man page for the wine emulator is in this directory. It is installed 
by 'make install'.

Wine Reference Manual

  Texinfo source for preliminary comprehensive documentation is in
this directory.  Use 'make info' in this directory to generate the GNU
info version, 'make dvi' to generate the DVI version (hit 'r' to
ignore errors), or 'make all' for both. It is no longer installed by
default.

Wine API documentation

  Do a 'make manpages' in the Wine toplevel directory to generate the
API manpages from the Wine source, or 'make man' in any source
subdirectory to generate manpages from only that directory. The
manpages will be deposited in [documentation/man3w].  You will need
c2man, available as source from http://www.debian.org/ and other
places. Apply the patch included at the end of this file for improved
terse description formatting.  The man pages are not installed
automatically.

Other READMEs

  Other informational files are in this directory as well as scattered
through the source tree.

Other resources:

  Usenet: news:comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
  WWW:    http://www.winehq.com/


Writing Wine API Documentation

To improve the documentation of the Wine API, just add comments to the
existing source. For example,

/******************************************************************
 *         PlayMetaFile32 (GDI32.265) Render metafile to device
 *
 *    The metafile is rendered in the device context specified by hdc.
 *
 *  RETURNS
 *
 *    Always returns TRUE.
 *
 * FIXME
 *    Wine metafiles are not 100% binary compatible with Microsoft Windows
 *    metafiles.
 */
BOOL32 WINAPI PlayMetaFile32(
        HDC32 hdc, /* handle of device context in which to render metafile */
        HMETAFILE32 hmf /* metafile handle */
) {

becomes, after processing with c2man and nroff -man,


PlayMetaFile32(3w)                             PlayMetaFile32(3w)


NAME
       PlayMetaFile32   -   PlayMetaFile32   (GDI32.265)   Render
       metafile to device

SYNOPSIS
       BOOL32 PlayMetaFile32
       (
            HDC32 hdc,
            HMETAFILE32 hmf
       );

PARAMETERS
       HDC32 hdc
              Handle  of  device  context  in  which  to   render
              metafile.

       HMETAFILE32 hmf
              Metafile handle.

DESCRIPTION
       The  metafile  is rendered in the device context specified
       by hdc.

RETURNS
       Always returns TRUE.

FIXME
       Wine  metafiles  are  not  100%  binary  compatible   with
       Microsoft Windows metafiles.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Patch for c2man:

diff -u c2man-2.41.orig/manpage.c c2man-2.41/manpage.c
--- c2man-2.41.orig/manpage.c	Tue Apr 23 21:13:44 1996
+++ c2man-2.41/manpage.c	Thu Dec 18 13:20:08 1997
@@ -585,10 +585,15 @@
 		    const char *endterse, *afterdash = skipdash(start_line);
 
 		    /* find the end of the terse comment */
-		    while (*c && *c != '.' && *c != '\n')
+		    while (*c && *c != '\n')
+		    {
 			c++;
+		      /* '.' ends terse description only if it ends sentence */
+			if (*(c-1)=='.' && *c && isspace(*c)) 
+			  break;
+		    }
 
-		    endterse = *c == '.' ? c+1 : c;
+		    endterse = c;
 		    *terse = alloc_string(
 			afterdash < endterse ? afterdash : start_line,
 			endterse);