Microwindows Documentation
(August 28, 2001)

I had been meaning to learn a little about DocBook, I'd also been playing with Microwindows a little bit. I noticed a mail in the Microwindows archives in which the writer had suggested converting the couple existing documents to DocBook format so that they could be more easily maintained.

I converted Greg Haerr's architecture document to DocBook SGML, and I've started to put together a getting started document. I've structured these two documents so that they can be compiled as stand alone DocBook "books" or combined as individual chapters in a "Microwindows Users Guide" in DocBook "book" format.

The architecture document is probably a little out of date, but it's still the best document around to give you a general overview of the entire Microwindows project. In particular it describes the layers of the Microwindows package in detail.

I've been concentrating on the nano-X layer of the Microwindows packages. The current "Getting Started" & "Nano-X API Reference" documents cover up to revision 0.89-pre7 of Microwindows.


getting started A getting started document in HTML format.
nano-X function reference The nano-X API reference document in HTML format.
architecture This is the DocBook HTML version of Greg Haerr's original architecture document.

mwsgml.tar.gz The SGML sources of the documents.
mwdocs.tar.gz The other image formats (PostScript, PDF, RTF & TXT in addition to the HTML).

Links Links to other Microwindows & nano-X web sites.
Patches Microwindows patches.
Unofficial FAQ Unofficial Microwindows FAQ.