[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Documentation polishing.

Eric S. Raymond gitlab at mg.gitlab.com
Thu Aug 25 20:44:32 UTC 2016


Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
9880a232 by Eric S. Raymond at 2016-08-25T16:44:08-04:00
Documentation polishing.

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2 changed files:

- devel/hacking.txt
- ntpstats/ntpviz


Changes:

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devel/hacking.txt
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--- a/devel/hacking.txt
+++ b/devel/hacking.txt
@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ in particular, does not qualify - it doesn't have good enough table
 support for our needs.  ReST does, but the hassle costs of supporting
 two different master markups are too high.
 
+If you must use non-ASCII characters, use UTF-8 and not Latin-1 or
+any other encoding.  Best practice is to use XML character entities.
+
 The NTP Classic documentation had a terrible problem with duplicative
 documentation gradually diverging as the duplicates mutated and
 bitrotted. Therefore one of our house rules is to have a *single point


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ntpstats/ntpviz
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--- a/ntpstats/ntpviz
+++ b/ntpstats/ntpviz
@@ -570,8 +570,8 @@ period of time.  The majority of this change should come from
 temperature changes (ex: HVAC, the weather, CPU usage causing local
 heating).</p>
 <p>Smaller changes are better.  An ideal clock would be a flat line at 0ppm.</p>
-<p>Expected values: +/- 500ppm</p>
-<p>Expected values of 99%-1% percentiles: within 10ppm</p>
+<p>Expected values: within ±500ppm of 0</p>
+<p>Expected values of 99%-1% percentiles: within 10ppm of 0</p>
 """,
         "local-offset-histogram": """\
 <p>This shows the clock offsets of the local clock as a histogram.  It
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ and response and offset all went in the same direction).<p>
 <dt>upstream clock</dt>
 <dd>Any remote clock or reference clock used as a source of time.</dd>
 
-<dt>us, µs, microsecond</dt>
+<dt>µs, us, microsecond</dt>
 <dd>One millionth of a second, and one thousandth of a millisecond,
 0.0000001s.</dd>
 </dl>



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