Re: [virtio] Starter Document in Latex format (was Re: [virtio] Starter Document for Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO)) Version 1.0

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:58:36 +0100
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:21:55 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:57:52AM -0500, Chet Ensign wrote:
> > > Great, thanks for that. Paul and I will get feedback to you on what we see in
> > > the PDF in the next day or two. If you could also generate an HTML copy and
> > > send it to us, that would be helpful too. 
> > > 
> > > Best, 
> > > 
> > > /chet
> > 
> > Didn't get a response yet so I went ahead and committed it.
> > I also started converting the spec text to this format.
> > The initial conversion was done using a perl script.
> > I added that to subversion too in case people are curious
> > or in case we need to re-do the conversion.
> 
> Builds on my Precise system.
> 
> Some things I noticed at a first glance:
> 
> - We'll need to convert the remaining ascii tables to proper tables.
> - Index starts with '1 Introduction'; you can't get to the start of the
>   document via the index.
> - There are a lot of field names, defines, etc. inline, which probably
>   need some kind of visual differentiation (\verbatim{}?) How is this

s/verbatim/texttt/

At least that's what I've used in similar documents.

>   handled in other standards?