Updating dlang.org documentation

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 18:01:19 UTC, Brad Anderson 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 12:06:44 UTC, Mike wrote:
>> I've submitted a couple of pull request to fix some 
>> dlang.org's documentation, using github's web editor.  The 
>> changes were simple, so I really didn't need to render the .dd 
>> file to verify my changes.  However, if I make a larger 
>> change, I'd like to be able to see the end result as readers 
>> will see it.
>>
>> How can I render the .dd files to html?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>
> The makefiles have an "html" target for running DDoc.  There's 
> a std.ddoc file with macros in the dlang.org repository that 
> the phobos docs references so you'll want to ensure the paths 
> between phobos and dlang.org are right in the makefile (I 
> believe DOCSRC defaults to "../dlang.org"). Once you are sure 
> the paths are good, just run:
>
> make -f {posix.mak/win32.mak} html (choose the right makefile 
> for your platform)

Oh, and if I remember correctly the target puts the results in an 
odd location (at least on Windows). Something like ../../phobos 
so you may want to check and change that before you generate them.