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Documentation revamp submission

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Been a few months, haven't touched much on this at all since I finished (have had a lot happen lately).

I'm actually going to submit what I've got now since it is complete up to the v16 release so there's something up there. Anything new later on, I can add as 'patch' files later on I guess (or if someone is bored enough to add onto it).

Just drop both files from zip right in the 'root' folder.
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Sorry, been meaning to reply to this for a while now! In general I think this looks okay. I'm not familiar with this kind of markup though, can it be processed to a plain text file for the binary release?
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SarahWalker wrote: Wed 25 Nov, 2020 8:09 am Sorry, been meaning to reply to this for a while now! In general I think this looks okay. I'm not familiar with this kind of markup though, can it be processed to a plain text file for the binary release?
The 'markup' is markdown, a simple text format that is actually quite readable as plain text.

The reason for doing it like this is that GitHub will automatically display the contents of a README.md below the code browser in a nice format (it's basically converted to an HTML representation for presentation). I think it also does the same for a plain text README file, but that doesn't have any formatting.

Here's a brief guide to GitHub's markdown flavor: https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/

EDIT: And if you wanted to, you could convert it to an HTML format for the binary release.
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If it can be converted to HTML then that's fine. Just want something that's readable out of the box for the end user who doesn't know what GitHub is and doesn't want to know.
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There's probably plenty of online converters out there, but I'd suggest taking a look at Pandoc (https://pandoc.org/index.html), which can convert markdown to just about any other format under the sun.
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SarahWalker wrote: Wed 25 Nov, 2020 8:09 am Sorry, been meaning to reply to this for a while now! In general I think this looks okay. I'm not familiar with this kind of markup though, can it be processed to a plain text file for the binary release?
Sure I can hit that up at some point, maybe use a converter to be quick (if it works out that is). This submission is just for the repo.

Will try to go over the commit history too and tack on v17 stuff if I can unless you've got a rundown stored somewhere?
shermanp wrote: Wed 25 Nov, 2020 8:26 pm There's probably plenty of online converters out there, but I'd suggest taking a look at Pandoc (https://pandoc.org/index.html), which can convert markdown to just about any other format under the sun.
I'll give this a crack, looks interesting.
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Committed at 2ad5b83. I'm leaving this thread where it is in an attempt to remind me that we need to update for v17 and convert to HTML or similar before the release.
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SarahWalker wrote: Thu 26 Nov, 2020 8:43 am Committed at 2ad5b83. I'm leaving this thread where it is in an attempt to remind me that we need to update for v17 and convert to HTML or similar before the release.
You're missing "TESTED.md" from the zip - it's the 'software tested' list. If you wanted to scrap that, I can kill the part of the main documentation that links to it.
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My bad. Added at e8e0cf4.
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