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-rw-r--r--docs/development/cas.md8
-rw-r--r--docs/development/contributing_guide.md11
-rw-r--r--docs/development/database_schema.md4
-rw-r--r--docs/development/saml.md2
4 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/docs/development/cas.md b/docs/development/cas.md
index 592b2d8d4f..7c0668e034 100644
--- a/docs/development/cas.md
+++ b/docs/development/cas.md
@@ -8,23 +8,23 @@ easy to run CAS implementation built on top of Django.
 1. Create a new virtualenv: `python3 -m venv <your virtualenv>`
 2. Activate your virtualenv: `source /path/to/your/virtualenv/bin/activate`
 3. Install Django and django-mama-cas:
-   ```
+   ```sh
    python -m pip install "django<3" "django-mama-cas==2.4.0"
    ```
 4. Create a Django project in the current directory:
-   ```
+   ```sh
    django-admin startproject cas_test .
    ```
 5. Follow the [install directions](https://django-mama-cas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#configuring) for django-mama-cas
 6. Setup the SQLite database: `python manage.py migrate`
 7. Create a user:
-   ```
+   ```sh
    python manage.py createsuperuser
    ```
    1. Use whatever you want as the username and password.
    2. Leave the other fields blank.
 8. Use the built-in Django test server to serve the CAS endpoints on port 8000:
-   ```
+   ```sh
    python manage.py runserver
    ```
 
diff --git a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
index 3bf08a72bb..abdb808438 100644
--- a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
+++ b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ license - in our case, this is almost always Apache Software License v2 (see
 
 # 2. What do I need?
 
+If you are running Windows, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is strongly
+recommended for development. More information about WSL can be found at
+<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install>. Running Synapse natively
+on Windows is not officially supported.
+
 The code of Synapse is written in Python 3. To do pretty much anything, you'll need [a recent version of Python 3](https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download).
 
 The source code of Synapse is hosted on GitHub. You will also need [a recent version of git](https://github.com/git-guides/install-git).
@@ -41,8 +46,6 @@ can find many good git tutorials on the web.
 
 # 4. Install the dependencies
 
-## Under Unix (macOS, Linux, BSD, ...)
-
 Once you have installed Python 3 and added the source, please open a terminal and
 setup a *virtualenv*, as follows:
 
@@ -56,10 +59,6 @@ pip install tox
 
 This will install the developer dependencies for the project.
 
-## Under Windows
-
-TBD
-
 
 # 5. Get in touch.
 
diff --git a/docs/development/database_schema.md b/docs/development/database_schema.md
index 20740cf5ac..256a629210 100644
--- a/docs/development/database_schema.md
+++ b/docs/development/database_schema.md
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ To do so, use `scripts-dev/make_full_schema.sh`. This will produce new
 
 Ensure postgres is installed, then run:
 
-    ./scripts-dev/make_full_schema.sh -p postgres_username -o output_dir/
+```sh
+./scripts-dev/make_full_schema.sh -p postgres_username -o output_dir/
+```
 
 NB at the time of writing, this script predates the split into separate `state`/`main`
 databases so will require updates to handle that correctly.
diff --git a/docs/development/saml.md b/docs/development/saml.md
index 60a431d686..b08bcb7419 100644
--- a/docs/development/saml.md
+++ b/docs/development/saml.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ To make Synapse (and therefore Element) use it:
      sp_config:
        allow_unknown_attributes: true  # Works around a bug with AVA Hashes: https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/issues/388
        metadata:
-         local: ["samling.xml"]   
+         local: ["samling.xml"]
    ```
 5. Ensure that your `homeserver.yaml` has a setting for `public_baseurl`:
    ```yaml