---
name: "gtkdoc-mktmpl"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gtk-doc-tools"
version: "1.25-7"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gtkdoc-mktmpl"
---

# gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)

GTK DocBook documentation generator.

## NAME

gtkdoc-mktmpl —  GTK DocBook documentation generator.

## SYNOPSIS

**gtkdoc-mktmpl** \[ See below \]

## DESCRIPTION

**gtkdoc-mktmpl** This creates or updates the  template files which contain the manually-edited documentation. (A  *template* is a simple text form which is  filled in with the description of a function, macro, enum, or struct.  For functions and macros it also contains fields for describing the  parameters.)

This script reads in the existing templates, found in tmpl/\*.sgml,  moves these files to tmpl/\*.sgml.bak, and then recreates the .sgml  files according to the structure given in the file  *MODULE*-sections.txt.

Any new templates added, or new function parameters, are marked  with *FIXME* so you can do a grep to see  which parts need updating.

Any templates which are no longer used (i.e. they are remove from  *MODULE*-sections.txt) are placed in the file  tmpl/*MODULE*-unused.txt. If they are  included again later they are automatically copied back into position.   If you are certain that these templates will never be used again you  can delete them from *MODULE*-unused.txt.

Any parameters to functions which are no longer used are separated  from the rest of the parameters with the line **\<**!-- # Unused Parameters  # --\>. It may be that the parameter name has just been changed, in  which case you can copy the description to the parameter with the new  name. You can delete the unused parameter descriptions when no longer  needed.

## EXAMPLE

See /usr/share/doc/gtk-doc-tools/examples, for a makefile.am and a  configure.in example file.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Christian Marillat marillat@debian.org for  the **Debian GNU/Linux** system (but may be used by others).