The rendered manual was in the repository and nowhere else, so an
installed application still had nothing to open.
Each packager now carries docs/manual/index.html and its pictures, to
where the application will look for them: /usr/share/darkroom/manual on
Arch, manual\ beside darkroom.exe on Windows (where the models already
are, and where dr_plat::system_data_dirs points), and assets/manual in
the APK, stored rather than deflated since a GIF or PNG is already
compressed. The manual is about 27 MB, which the APK and the installer
both grow by; the pictures are 1600x1100 screenshots and short GIFs,
and against an APK that already carries 170 MB of inference runtime and
70 MB of models they are not worth re-encoding for.
The pictures are LFS objects, so each packager refuses a pointer where a
picture should be, as it already does for the models: shipped, a pointer
is a manual of broken images that nothing reports. The Android and
Windows CI legs therefore fetch docs/manual/media, which they excluded
while nothing they built read it, and the installer smoke test checks
that the page and every picture were installed.
docs/ had 26 developer documents flat beside the manual, and the two
audiences are very differently sized: most readers want the manual and
the gesture reference, a few want the register, the designs and the
measurements. The manual and gestures.md stay at the top; everything for
someone changing the code moves to docs/dev/, and the two documents that
name their own successors — the v0.1 milestone and the UI-refinement plan
— go to docs/dev/archive/ rather than being deleted, since both are still
cited. docs/README.md is the index, users first.
Every reference follows: code comments, Cargo manifests, the workflows,
the pre-commit hook, the bench and traceability tools (which locate the
repo root by docs/dev/requirements.md now), packaging, the Docker READMEs,
CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and the README. The matrix links one level
deeper and is regenerated. Links out of the moved documents into the tree
gain a level; a link checker over every Markdown file finds none broken.
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