Documentation TODO in no particular order grouped by style and content. It would be nice to get some of these done for 1.6. Style/Technical --------------- * Re-check complete manual for consistency. The same things need to be consistently marked up, e.g. an item either always as or always (decide clearly which to use for what), make sure all option refs are links, things are consistently quoted. E.g. it has: If the filename begins with a tilde (``˜'') and If the filename ends with a vertical bar (|) We need to choose either style and use it. Probably we want to add a short typography section explaining layout details. * Think about some way of templating to a) help improve consistency (i.e. some sort of macro to refer to key, options, functions, etc.) and b) reduce typing overhead. $pipe_split is neither fun to read nor to write. This would give us lots of options to improve it (e.g. an automated index). We depend on perl already to build docs, think about/look for simple perl templating engine. * Maybe add a mutt.css to contrib to make it look better. * As for sending patches, maybe add a short text file for documentation hackers with guidelines. (Though nobody really seems to provide input on the manual) * Find a way (XSLT?) to trim the TOC for the option reference; it's ugly but we probably want to keep the TOC depth as-is for other sections. Content ------- * Especially the introduction needs to be reworked quite a bit, the current reference-like way is unfriendly for new users. There should be an introduction chapter explaining concepts (config, menus, hooks, etc.) E.g. the intro for hooks should come _before_ their syntactical definition, not after. * Some sections maybe should be better grouped by topic, instead of one section per task (e.g. hooks should be grouped under a section 'hooks' in the config chapter). * Talk a lot more about character sets and encodings.