Documentation tweaks.

Add link to manpage writer documentation in doc index.
Add link to manpage writer references.
More consistent formatting of function names in HISTORY.

Small additions.

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk@9059 929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docutils/docs/dev/todo.txt b/docutils/docs/dev/todo.txt
index c9ff020c0..3d29d4333 100644
--- a/docutils/docs/dev/todo.txt
+++ b/docutils/docs/dev/todo.txt
@@ -89,15 +89,32 @@ Convert with reposurgeon_?
 
   -- `Git Wiki`__
 
+The comprehensive `Reposurgeon documentation`_ comes with
+`a guide to repository conversion`__
+as well as info about `reading Subversion repositories`__.
+Converting from an SVN dump file is faster than from a checkout.
+
 .. _reposurgeon: http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/
+.. _reposurgeon documentation:
+    http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html
 __ https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/
    Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools#Subversion
+__ http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html#conversion   
+__ http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html
+   #_reading_subversion_repositories   
+
+
+Adam Turner wrote a conversion Makefile and ``.lift`` scripts that
+downloads the repo from SF with rsync, converts it to a SVN mirror and
+finally to Git, splitting sandbox, prest, and web from docutils.
+
 
 Sourceforge supports multiple Git repositories per project, so we can
 switch the version control system independent of the decision on an
 eventual switch of the host.
 Cf. https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Git/
 
+
 General
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