-The Ardour Manual
-===================
+# The Ardour Manual
-This is the project that generates the static ardour manual website available at http://manual.ardour.org.
+This is the project that generates the static ardour manual website available at [manual.ardour.org](http://manual.ardour.org). The site is built using python 3.
-The site is built using ruby (I use 1.9.3) and [Jekyll]](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll) (a ruby gem). You should be able to just install ruby and then `gem install jekyll`. There are no other dependencies.
+### Get the code
-To generate the site and run it up locally you can do something like:
-
- git clone <repo-url>
+ git clone <repo-url> ardour-manual
cd ardour-manual
- ruby export.rb
- jekyll --server
-To upload it (assuming your ssh key has been put on the server) you run:
+## Structure of the content
+
+There are 2 different types of content:
- ./upload.sh
+- a master document which describes the overall structure of the manual
+- normal content, which is described in the master document
+### The Master Document
-Strucuture of the content
-----------------------
+This is a text file (master-doc.txt) which describes the structure of the manual. It does this
+through headers which tell the build script where the content lives, what its
+relationship to the overall structure is, as well as a few other things.
-There are 2 different types of content:
-- special manual content
-- normal content
+All headers have a similar structure, and have to have at least the following
+minimal structure:
-Special manual content
-----------------------
+ ---
+ title: Some Wordy and Expressive Title
+ part: part
+ ---
-This is content that ends up as part of the tree on the left.
+Keywords that go into the header are of the form:
-The _raw_ content is in `_manual` directory and has a naming convention as follows:
+ keyword: value
- # content for a page at http://manual.ardour.org/<slug>/
+Here are the keywords you can put in, and a brief description of what they do:
- <ordering>_<slug>.<html|md|textile>
- ^ ^ ^
- | | |
- | | extension is removed later
- | |
- | ends up as part of URL
- |
- only used for ordering
+| Keyword | Meaning |
+| ------- | -------- |
+| title | Sets the title for the content that follows |
+| menu_title | Sets the title for the content that follows which will appear in the menu link sidebar. If this is not specified, it defaults to the value of the `title` keyword |
+| part | Sets the hierarchy for the content that follows. It must be one of the following (listed in order of lowering hierarchy): part, chapter, subchapter, section, subsection. |
+| link | Sets the unbreakable link to the content that follows. Links in the *content* should be prefixed with a double at-sign (@@) to tell the build system that the link is an internal one |
+| include | Tells the build system that the content lives in an external file; these normally live in the `include/` directory. Note that the filename should **not** be prefixed with `include/` |
+| exclude | Tells the `implode` and `explode` scripts that file referred to by the `include` keyword should be ignored. Note that the value of this keyword is ignored |
+| style | Sets an alternate CSS stylesheet; the name should match the one referred to (sans the `.css` suffix) in the `source/css` directory |
+| uri | Sets an absolute URI where this page will go in the hierachy of the created website. It does *not* change the document structure |
- # a folder for subcontent is like this
+### Normal content
- <ordering>_<slug>/
+Manual content goes into the `include/` directory (or in the Master Document itself); and consists of normal HTML, sans the usual headers that is normally seen in regular HTML web pages. Any other content, such as css files, images, files and fixed pages goes into the `source/` directory.
- # more things can then go in here for http://manual.ardour.org/<slug>/<slug2>/
+Adding `source/images/horse.png` makes it available at the url `/images/horse.png` after publishing it; things work similarly for `source/files/` and `source/css/`.
- <ordering>_<slug>/<ordering2>_<slug2>.html
+## More Advanced Stuff
-So, for example:
+You probably don't want or need to do any of this, but here are some
+notes just in case you decide to anyway.
- this file appears at
- ------------ ------------
+### Run it locally
- 01_main.html /main/
+You may want the manual available on a machine that doesn't have constant
+internet access. You will need `git`, and `python` installed.
- 01_main/01_subpage.html /main/subpage/
+1. Download code and build manual
+ ```
+ git clone <repo-url> ardour-manual
+ cd ardour-manual
+ ./build.py
+ ```
-Normal content
-----------------------
+2. open `ardour-manual/website/index.html` in your favorite web browser
-This is anything else, css files, images, fixed pages, layouts. This content lives in the `source` directory.
+ If this page doesn't open and function correctly, follow these optional steps to serve up the page with nginx.
+ N.B.: Step 2 will *never* work; you *must* install nginx if you want to see it!
+3. Install [nginx](http://wiki.nginx.org/Install)
+4. Configure nginx server block in `/etc/nginx/sites-available/default`
-Content processing
-----------------------
+ ```
+ server {
+ listen 80;
+ server_name localhost;
-Three types of content can have special processing done.
+ root ...path_to_.../ardour-manual/website;
+ index index.html;
+ }
+ ```
-- `.html` files
-- `.md` files
-- `.textile` files
+5. Restart nginx server
-All special files should also have a special header at the top too:
+ service nginx restart
- ---
- layout: default
- title: Some Very Wordy and Expressive Title
- menu_title: Some Title
- ---
+6. The manual will now be available at http://localhost
- <p>My Actual Content</p>
+### Helper scripts: `implode` and `explode`
+The `implode` and `explode` scripts exist in order to accomodate different working styles. `implode` takes all the files referenced by the `include` keywords in the headers in the Master Document and automagically puts them into the Master Document in their proper places. Note that any header that has an `exclude` keyword will remain in the `include/` directory. `explode` does the inverse of `implode`; it takes all the content in the Master Document and blows it into individual files in the `include/` directory.
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