documentation/documentation.sgml

  <chapter id="documentation">
    <title>Documenting Wine</title>
    <para>How to help out with the Wine documentation effort...</para>

    <sect1 id="api-docs">
      <title>Writing Wine API Documentation</title>

      <para>
        written by (???)
      </para>
      <para>
        (Extracted from <filename>wine/documentation/README.documentation</filename>)
      </para>

      <para>
        To improve the documentation of the Wine API, just add
        comments to the existing source. For example,
      </para>
      <screen>
/******************************************************************
 *         CopyMetaFile32A   (GDI32.23)
 *
 *  Copies the metafile corresponding to hSrcMetaFile to either
 *  a disk file, if a filename is given, or to a new memory based
 *  metafile, if lpFileName is NULL.
 *
 * RETURNS
 *
 *  Handle to metafile copy on success, NULL on failure.
 *
 * BUGS
 *
 *  Copying to disk returns NULL even if successful.
 */
HMETAFILE32 WINAPI CopyMetaFile32A(
		   HMETAFILE32 hSrcMetaFile, /* handle of metafile to copy */
		   LPCSTR lpFilename /* filename if copying to a file */
) { ... }
      </screen>
      <para>
        becomes, after processing with <command>c2man</command> and
        <command>nroff -man</command>,
      </para>
      <screen>
CopyMetaFileA(3w)                               CopyMetaFileA(3w)


NAME
       CopyMetaFileA - CopyMetaFile32A   (GDI32.23)

SYNOPSIS
       HMETAFILE32 CopyMetaFileA
       (
            HMETAFILE32 hSrcMetaFile,
            LPCSTR lpFilename
       );

PARAMETERS
       HMETAFILE32 hSrcMetaFile
              Handle of metafile to copy.

       LPCSTR lpFilename
              Filename if copying to a file.

DESCRIPTION
       Copies  the  metafile  corresponding  to  hSrcMetaFile  to
       either a disk file, if a filename is given, or  to  a  new
       memory based metafile, if lpFileName is NULL.

RETURNS
       Handle to metafile copy on success, NULL on failure.

BUGS
       Copying to disk returns NULL even if successful.

SEE ALSO
       GetMetaFileA(3w),   GetMetaFileW(3w),   CopyMetaFileW(3w),
       PlayMetaFile(3w),  SetMetaFileBitsEx(3w),  GetMetaFileBit-
       sEx(3w)
      </screen>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>

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