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Christmas CookBook

Merged Victor Poughon requested to merge xmas_cookbook into develop

Rationale

Improve the application documentation which currently has a lot of formatting problems, and improve the cookbook in general.

Summary

  • Complete rewrite of otbGenerateWrappersRstDoc.py
  • New way of presenting parameters (no more choice parameter recursive spaghetti)
  • Support custom CSS
  • Build CookBook without -W
  • Fix #1771 (closed)
  • Show "Edit on Gitlab" link
  • Manual review of all applications documentation (grammar mistakes, rst warnings, dead links, broken formulas...)
  • Don't show "DocName" and "Authors"
  • Many small design improvements
  • Add documentation warnings. Here's an example (in reality there are 100+, we can fix them in another branch)
OTB Documentation Warning (Rescale): 'ram' parameter is not third from last
OTB Documentation Warning (RigidTransformResample): Application Long Description does not end with a period (.)
OTB Documentation Warning (SARCalibration): Parameter 'lut' name contains special character (.)
OTB Documentation Warning (SARCalibration): 'ram' parameter is not third from last
OTB Documentation Warning (SARDecompositions): Application Long Description has a space before a colon
OTB Documentation Warning (SARDecompositions): Parameter 'inco.kernelsize' name contains special character (.)
OTB Documentation Warning (SARPolarMatrixConvert): Parameter 'inc' name contains special character (:)
  • Make GetDocLink link to Cookbook (instead of /Applications)
  • Automatic internal links in application description (e.g. if you write "BlockMatching" in the long description it will become a link).
  • Fix bug in GetParameterAsString where string lists were formatted with '\n' (use space instead).
  • Relax otbWrapperApplicationDocTests to allow empty Limitations, empty SeeAlso and trailing newline in LongDescription.

This branch has a corresponding branch in otb-data to update the baseline for owTvApplicationHtmlDocGeneratorTest.

Guidelines to application documentation authors

  • Use rst format
  • Prefer present tense imperative
  • Order of parameters is important!
  • Avoid useless words like "this application...." or "this parameter..."
  • Avoid noise like "Input output: This allows setting input and output"

Future work

  • Multiple versions with sphinxcontrib-versioning
  • Fix "documentation warnings"
  • Deprecate SetDocName? #1789 (closed)
  • Deprecate otbWrapperApplicationHtmlDocGenerator

Copyright

The copyright owner is CNES and has signed the ORFEO ToolBox Contributor License Agreement.

Check before merging:

  • All discussions are resolved
  • At least 2 👍 votes from core developers, no 👎 vote.
  • The feature branch is (reasonably) up-to-date with the base branch
  • Dashboard is green
  • Copyright owner has signed the ORFEO ToolBox Contributor License Agreement
Edited by Victor Poughon