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diff --git a/documentation/standards.md b/documentation/standards.md index 9f4771ebd9..bc403e393e 100644 --- a/documentation/standards.md +++ b/documentation/standards.md @@ -5,6 +5,21 @@ documentation is created. It is currently a work in progress. +## Automatic style validation + +There is an ongoing effort to automate style validation +through the [Vale](https://vale.sh/). To try it, run: + + $ make stylecheck + +Note that this just applies to text. Therefore, the syntax +conventions described below still apply. + +If you wish to add a new word to an "accept.txt" file +(./styles/config/vocabularies/<Vocab>/accept.txt), +make sure the spelling and capitalization matches +what Wikipedia or the project defining this word uses. + ## Text standards ### Bulleted lists @@ -55,27 +70,30 @@ cannot be split without infringing syntactic rules or reducing readability, as well as for command output which should be kept unmodified. -### Project names +### File, tool and command names -Project names should be capitalized in the same -way they are on Wikipedia, in particular: +File, tool, command and package names should be double tick-quoted. +For example, ``` ``conf/local.conf`` ``` is preferred over +`"conf/local.conf"`. -* BitBake -* OpenEmbedded +### Project names -There are exceptions in which such names can be used -in lower case: +Project names should be introduced with single quotes, to have them rendered +with an italic font and make them easier to distinguish from command names +(double tick-quoted) and from regular English words. -* When referring to a package name -* When referring to the corresponding command name -* When used in a cross-reference title. Such - titles are usually in lower case. +An exception is when project names appear in hyperlinks, as nested markup +is not supported by Sphinx yet. -### File, tool and command names +Project names should also be capitalized (or not) in the same way they are on +Wikipedia, or on their own project pages if they are not described on +Wikipedia. If a project name isn't capitalized, it should remain so even +at the beginning of a sentence. -File, tool and command names should be double tick-quoted. -For example, ``` ``conf/local.conf`` ``` is preferred over -`"conf/local.conf"`. +For example: + +* ``` `BitBake` ``` +* ``` `ftrace` ``` ### Variables |