Cygwin/X - Development - Documentation

All Cygwin/X documentation available on this page is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Cygwin/X documentation aims to make installation and usage of Cygwin/X painless for all users, from the inexperienced to the master code wizard. Screenshots are used when practical to provide users with visual confirmation of the instructions written in the prose.

Cygwin/X documentation is written in XML and is compiled against the DocBook DTD (document type definition).

Patches to the documentation source will be gladly accepted.

Currently all documentation screenshots are in the PNG format; we cannot accept GIF graphics for the documentation. Read the GNU statement regarding GIFs for more information on why we cannot accept GIFs.

Compiled Documentation

Cygwin/X User's Guide [HTML] [PDF] [PS] [RTF] [TXT]

Cygwin/X Frequently Asked Questions [HTML] [PDF] [PS] [RTF] [TXT]

Cygwin/X Contributor's Guide [HTML] [PDF] [PS] [RTF] [TXT]

Documentation Source Code

See the Cygwin/X Contributor's Guide chapter on documentation for instructions on obtaining the documenentation source code

Documentation Source Code from Cygwin's setup.exe

Use Cygwin's setup.exe to install the cygwin-x-doc package that contains both a compiled version of the documentation and the documentation source code. This package can be found in the 'Doc' category

Last updated: $Date: 2008/11/26 20:44:38 $ ($Author: jturney $)