Geany

Documentation

Introduce yourself as an author

Subscribe to the Geany Devel mailing list and write a short mail to the list so that everyone knows you are there, and would like to contribute as an author for the documentation.

Prepare for your work

Note that you will need several tools installed on your system. In particular these are:

  • GIT
  • Python docutils

The packages are named git and python-docutils on Debian and Fedora systems.

Writing Documentation

Check out current documentation from Git

The documentation is included in the source distribution. Thus, most current documentation is available in Geany's Git repository. To make sure you have the most recent version, check out the master branch of Geany as described on the Git page and then change to the directory doc in the Geany source tree.

Edit geany.txt

You will find a file called geany.txt, which is the basis of all documentation. It is written in reStructuredText (or "reST"). Feel free to improve this file as you like. To build the related HTML document to see what your changes look like, run:

make geany.html

in the doc directory to create or update the generated HTML documentation.

Publish your changes for review and inclusion

If you are finished, just open a pull request on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/.