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author | Carl Hetherington <carl@carlh.net> | 2011-12-21 00:56:07 +0000 |
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committer | Carl Hetherington <carl@carlh.net> | 2011-12-21 00:56:07 +0000 |
commit | e62e94b63c2ca32db6f3d790e58ef18d8528ea53 (patch) | |
tree | a86f59c86428a3b11acd6ca4b2a82b8cc9d40bbe | |
parent | 5c1e4e1c79088f222271dd659e03abc59c3ae6fc (diff) |
Some tinkering with the docbook manual, just for more kicks.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/ardour2/branches/3.0@11040 d708f5d6-7413-0410-9779-e7cbd77b26cf
-rw-r--r-- | manual/xml/glossary.xml | 41 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/xml/using_existing_audio.xml | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/xml/what_is_different_about_ardour.xml | 12 |
4 files changed, 34 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/manual/xml/glossary.xml b/manual/xml/glossary.xml index 37801539a7..912d75ff56 100644 --- a/manual/xml/glossary.xml +++ b/manual/xml/glossary.xml @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ <!DOCTYPE glossary PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ +<!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "../../build/manual/ent/entities.ent"> +%BOOK_ENTITIES; + ]> <glossary> @@ -12,7 +15,7 @@ <glossterm><acronym>ALSA</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - Abbreviation for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. ALSA provides + Acronym of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. ALSA provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. </para> <para> @@ -98,7 +101,14 @@ <glossterm><acronym>DSP</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - Some reasonable definition here. + Acronym of Digital Signal Processing, a very general term for processing + of any digital signal by digital means. In &ARDOUR_NAME;'s context, it generally + refers to the processing peformed on audio signals by &ARDOUR_NAME; and by plugins. + It is often talked of in terms of DSP `load', referring to the amount of CPU power + that Ardour is using for its signal processing. This load increases with the + number of tracks and plugins that a session uses. A computer will have an upper + limit to the amount of DSP it can perform, depending on its CPU and RAM speed and + many other factors. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -122,7 +132,9 @@ <glossterm><acronym>HDR</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - Short for Hard Disk Recorder. Some reasonable definition here. + Acronym of Hard Disk Recorder. A general term for devices which record + audio onto hard disk; a HDR usually means some kind of standalone recording + unit such as the Alesis HD-24 and similar. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -146,7 +158,7 @@ <glossterm><acronym>JACK</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - Initialism of Jack Audio Connection Kit. Some reasonable + Acronym of the Jack Audio Connection Kit. Some reasonable definition here. </para> <para> @@ -162,8 +174,11 @@ <glossterm><acronym>LADSPA</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - Abbreviation of Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API. Some - reasonable definition here. + Acronym of Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API. One standard + for writing plugins which &ARDOUR_NAME; can use. Many LADSPA plugins + are available; some free and open-source and others closed-source. See, for example: + <ulink url="http://plugin.org.uk/"/> + <ulink url="http://calf.sourceforge.net/"/> </para> <para> <ulink url="http://ladspa.org"/> @@ -178,8 +193,8 @@ <glossterm><acronym>MIDI</acronym> </glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - Abbreviation for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Some - reasonable definition here. + Acronym of Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A standard for communicating note + and other information between keyboards, computers, sound modules and many other devices. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -191,7 +206,9 @@ <glossterm>Playlist</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - some reasonable definition here. + A list of <glossterm linkend="gt-region">regions</glossterm>; each + <glossterm id="gt-track">track</glossterm> has one or more Playlists, one of which + is active; this specifies the regions that will be played back by the track. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -200,7 +217,11 @@ <glossterm>plugin</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - some reasonable definition here. + A piece of software that can be used inside Ardour to process audio + or MIDI data. Common examples are equalisers, compressors or reverb + processors using the <glossterm linkend="gt-ladspa">LADSPA</glossterm>, + <glossterm linkend="gt-lv2">LV2</glossterm> or <glossterm linkend="gt-vst">VST</glossterm> + standards. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> diff --git a/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml b/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml index 5891ef2b71..dca9b07bfe 100644 --- a/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml +++ b/manual/xml/setting_up_to_record.xml @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ </para> </section> - <section id="setup-external-monitoring"> + <section id="tape-machine-mode"> <title>Tape Machine Mode</title> <para> Nearly all traditional tape recorders use the same monitoring model. diff --git a/manual/xml/using_existing_audio.xml b/manual/xml/using_existing_audio.xml index e3ab54d40a..e81d47493e 100644 --- a/manual/xml/using_existing_audio.xml +++ b/manual/xml/using_existing_audio.xml @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ linkend="gt-embed">embedded</link> into your session.</para> </section> - <section id="how-to-embed-a-file"> + <section id="working-with-tags"> <title>Working with Tags</title> <para>A "tag" is bit of information, or <emphasis>metadata</emphasis>, @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ </section> </section> - <section id="how-to-embed-a-file"> + <section id="searching-freesound-for-soundfiles"> <title>Searching Freesound for soundfiles (optional)</title> <para>Freesound (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/) is an online database with diff --git a/manual/xml/what_is_different_about_ardour.xml b/manual/xml/what_is_different_about_ardour.xml index ff41c30578..8179a04563 100644 --- a/manual/xml/what_is_different_about_ardour.xml +++ b/manual/xml/what_is_different_about_ardour.xml @@ -55,18 +55,6 @@ </para> </section> - <section id="no-visible-send-controls"> - <title>No visible send controls</title> - <para> - Although Ardour supports sends, there is no way to control them - directly from the mixer interface - you don't get a dedicated knob on - the mixer strip. However, if you bring up the send's own editor (for - example, by double-clicking on its name in the redirect list), you - will find a richer set of functionality than most other DAWs offer for - controlling the behaviour of a send. - </para> - </section> - <section id="a-smaller-set-of-tools"> <title>A smaller set of tools</title> <para> |