evennia/docs/README.txt
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EVENNIA DOCUMENTATION
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- Evennia is extensively documented. Our manual is the
continuously updating online wiki,
https://github.com/evennia/evennia/wiki
- Snapshots of the manual are also mirrored in reST
form to ReadTheDocs:
http://evennia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- You can also ask for help from the evennia community,
http://groups.google.com/group/evennia
- Or by visiting our irc channel,
#evennia on the Freenode network
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* Doxygen auto-docs
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You can build the developer auto-docs
(a fancy searchable index of the entire source tree).
This makes use of doxygen, a doc generator that parses
the source tree and creates docs on the fly.
- Install doxygen (v1.7+)
Doxygen is available for most platforms from
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
or through your package manager in Linux.
- Run
doxygen config.dox
This will create the auto-docs in a folder 'html'.
- Start your web browser and point it to
<evenniadir>/docs/html/index.html
- If you prefer a pdf version for printing, use LaTeX by
activating the relevant section in config.dox. Run the
doxygen command again as above and a new folder 'latex'
will be created with the latex sources. You need the
LaTeX processing system installed, then enter the new
latex/ folder and run
make
This will create the pdf. Be warned however that the pdf
docs are many hundreds of pages and the automatic formatting
of doxygen is not always succeeding.
- Doxyfile is allows for plenty of configuration to get the
docs to look the way you want. You can also output to other
formats suitable for various developer environments, Windows
help files etc.
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* Sphinx Manuals
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If you want to build the reST manuals yourself, you basically need to
convert the wiki. First place yourself in a location where you want
to clone the wiki repo to, then clone it:
git clone https://github.com/evennia/evennia.wiki.git
- Enter this directory and check out the sphinx branch:
git checkout sphinx
This branch has, apart from all the wiki pages (*.md files), also has a
an extra directory sphinx/ that will hold the converted data.
- You need Pandoc for the markdown-to-reST conversion:
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html
You need a rather recent version. The versions coming with some linux
repos are too old to support "github-flavoured markdown" conversion.
See that page for getting the Haskill build environment in that case.
- You also need sphinx,
http://sphinx-doc.org/
You can most likely get it with 'pip install sphinx' under Linux.
- With all this in place, go to the pylib/ folder and run the
converter script:
python update_rest_docs.py
If all goes well, you will see all the wiki pages getting converted.
The converted *.rst files will end up in the sphinx/ directory.
- Finally, go to sphinx/ and run
make html
If sphinx is installed, this will create the html files in
sphinx/.build. To look at them, point your browser to
<path-to-wiki-repo>/sphinx/.build/index.html