[oe] Variable reference (was: Documentation update about machine conf files)

Holger Hans Peter Freyther holger+oe at freyther.de
Tue Aug 25 12:18:23 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 25 August 2009 12:45:15 Steffen Sledz wrote:
> Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> >> It's a good starting point. But it has one drawback: It allows a short
> >> one liner docu only. Often it would be great to have some more info,
> >> e.g. a list of supported image file system types for IMAGE_FSTYPES.
> >
> > Why do you think so?
>
> When i had a look into conf/documentation.conf it occurred to me that the
> documentation field may only be a simple string. It seems not to be
> possible to use e.g. tables or lists there. Sorry, if i'm wrong here.

Ah okay, it certainly is possible to embed HTML, it might not be so pleasant.

z.




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