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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2024-09-18 17:13:19 -0400
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2024-09-18 17:13:19 -0400
commit19b389c60871cd14b07dfb244a519d8cb83988cc (patch)
tree65e40f19ffe1033d9891c9fc2bc8f52c695c610e
parent120f883d7924f38e296d68738ed067f46fd1b303 (diff)
doc PG relnotes: add paragraph explaining the section symbol
And suppress the symbol in print mode, where the section symbol does not appear. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZuobILbmGGetxEg5@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 12
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release.sgml9
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl5
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 87c01696da9..38b11ea01af 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
review, so each item is truly a community effort.
</para>
+ <para id="release-no-print-output">
+ Section markers (&sect;) in the release notes link to <ulink
+ url="https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git"><application>gitweb</application></ulink>
+ pages which show the primary <application>git</application> commit
+ messages and source tree changes responsible for the release note item.
+ There might be additional <application>git</application> commits which
+ are not shown.
+ </para>
+
<!--
When beginning a new major-release series, create a new release-NN.sgml
file, removing the previous one, and change the &-reference here.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
index 739958bb804..1728124e9da 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
<!-- Do nothing for ulink to avoid footnotes -->
</xsl:template>
+<!-- Also suppress the description of the section markers in print mode -->
+<xsl:template match="appendix[@id='release']//para[@id='release-no-print-output']">
+ <!-- Output nothing for this para -->
+</xsl:template>
+
<xsl:param name="use.extensions" select="1"></xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="variablelist.as.blocks" select="1"></xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="orderedlist.label.width">1.5em</xsl:param>