X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=00fdfa3549f09b3560c30ff79787242b5bdb0c2e;hb=f3b368152615f68cecd97ba461a495d84c691b3e;hp=68cf88888b75c8e7ba655f3910d0290141ee9a07;hpb=f1ed8a89c9ade36f78966bf2feea445230ae58c7;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 68cf888..00fdfa3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,94 +1,71 @@ # The Ardour Manual - -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 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` to get it up and running. +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. ### Get the code - git clone + git clone ardour-manual cd ardour-manual - + ## Structure of the content There are 2 different types of content: -- special `_manual` content -- normal content - -### Special `_manual` content - -This is content that ends up as part of the tree on the left. - -The _raw_ content is in `_manual/` directory and has a naming convention as follows: - - # content for a page at http://manual.ardour.org// +- a master document which describes the overall structure of the manual +- normal content, which is described in the master document - _. - ^ ^ ^ - | | | - | | extension is removed later - | | - | ends up as part of URL - | - only used for ordering +### The Master Document +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. - # a folder for subcontent is like this +All headers have a similar structure, and have to have at least the following +minimal structure: - _/ - - # more things can then go in here for http://manual.ardour.org/// + --- + title: Some Wordy and Expressive Title + part: part + --- - _/_.html +Keywords that go into the header are of the form: -So, for example: + keyword: value +Here are the keywords you can put in, and a brief description of what they do: -| this file | appears at url | -|--------------------------------------------------------| -| _manual/01_main.html | /main/ | -| _manual/01_main/01_subpage.html | /main/subpage/ | +| 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 | ### Normal content -This is anything else, css files, images, fixed pages, layouts. This content lives in the `source` directory. - -If you added `source/images/horse.png` is would be available at the url `/images/horse.png` after publishing it. - -Content processing is applied to normal content if it has the correct header as described below. - +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. -## Content processing +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/`. -Three types of content can have special processing done. - -- `.html` liquid/HTML files -- `.md` markdown files -- `.textile` textile files - -All files to be processed should also have a special header at the top too: - - --- - layout: default - title: Some Very Wordy and Expressive Title - menu_title: Some Title - --- - -

My Actual Content

- -The `title` field will end up as an `h1` in the right panel. The `menu_title` is what is used in the menu tree on the left (if not preset it will default to using `title`). - -### `.html` files - -These are almost normal html, but extended with [Liquid templates](http://liquidmarkup.org/). There are a couple of special tags created for this project. - -- `{% tree %}` is what shows the manual structure in the left column -- `{% children %}` shows the immediate list of children for a page +### CSS +The manual uses [Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/) for its global layout, and +a custom CSS (`source/css/app.css`) that contains classes used for keys, menus, +tables, etc... so it is recommanded to have a look at it first, or at least see +how other pages are made to keep the manual consistent in its appearance. ## More Advanced Stuff @@ -97,26 +74,55 @@ notes just in case you decide to anyway. ### Run it locally -This will generate the final html and start a local webserver. +You may want the manual available on a machine that doesn't have constant +internet access. You will need `git`, and `python3` installed. + +1. Download code and build manual + + ``` + git clone ardour-manual + cd ardour-manual + ./build.py + ``` + +2. Install and configure a web server on your machine. Any web server should +work, Apache, nginx, etc... The following steps are for nginx, using another +server means following the same procedure for the server you decide to use. + +3. Install [nginx](http://wiki.nginx.org/Install) - jekyll --server - -It should then be available at [localhost:4000](http://localhost:4000) - -### manual.rb plugin +4. Configure nginx server block in `/etc/nginx/sites-available/default` -Much of the functionality comes from `_plugins/manual.rb` - it takes the _manual format_ (contained in `_manual/`) and mushes it around a bit into a tmp directory before letting jekyll do it's normal thing. It's all hooked into the jekyll command so no special actions are required. + ``` + server { + listen 80; + server_name localhost; -This is to enable the directory tree to be understood, child page lists to be constructed, clean URLs, and the correct ordering of pages maintained. + root ...path_to_.../ardour-manual/website; + index index.html; + } + ``` -### Clean URLs +5. Restart nginx server -To allow the clean URLs (no `.html` extension) _and_ to support simple hosting (no `.htaccess` or apache configuration required) each page ends up in it's own directory with an `index.html` page for the content. + service nginx restart -E.g. `02_main/05_more/02_blah.html` after all processing is complete would end up in `_site/main/more/blah/index.html`. +6. The manual will now be available at http://localhost -The page format contained in the `_manual/` directory is different to the final rendered output (see special `_manual` content above) to make it simple to create content (you don't need to think about the `index.html` files). +### 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. +### Build options - +The `build.py` script that builds the manual accepts the following options: +- '-v', or '--verbose', to display the high-level structure of the manual +- '-q', or '--quiet', to suppress all output (overrides -v) +- '-d', or '--devmode', to add content to pages to help developers debug them +(link, file name, URL)