commit 1161519917bc85b57634b3787800473151088ad1
parent 0dec40e9da3f2574c8b9d53967e1cd24388619fc
Author: Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:54:47 -0400
Update README.md with documentation on createpages.sh
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# paritybit.ca Web Site
-This is the server code, bare markdown files, essential public files, and build scripts
-for the [paritybit.ca](https://www.paritybit.ca) website.
+This is the server code, bare markdown files, essential public files, and build
+script for the [paritybit.ca](https://www.paritybit.ca) website.
-The code for this website is licensed under the GNU GPLv3.0-or-later whereas
-the content of the actual web pages is licensed under the Creative Commons
-Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
+The build script `createpages.sh` was written to serve the needs of building my
+webpages and was not coded to be a tool for the general public. Therefore, a lot
+of the solutions depend on structuring a page in a specific way so that I didn't
+need to bother making the solution work in general use cases.
+
+To build a page that is properly compiled by the script, there are 5 essential
+things:
+
+1. The first line of the file must be the title for the page. The text here will
+ become the content of the HTML \<title\> tag.
+2. The third line of the file must be a description of the content of the page.
+ This text will become the content of the HTML \<meta\> description tag.
+3. The fifth line of the file must be a list of the CSS files that the HTML page
+ needs. This is a space-separated list of css files like so: `"base.css
+ extra.css test.css"`.
+4. The seventh line of the file must be a list of the
+ sections/subsections/subsubsections which will become the content of the
+ table of contents (the name of a section and the name of the header it is
+ pointing to _must_ be identical).
+5. The content of 2-4 must be enclosed by double-quote `"` characters. If any of
+ 1-4 are not needed, the line must still exist but there must be no content on
+ the line, not even the double-quote characters.
+
+See the files in the `pages/` directory for examples.
+
+The code for this website (Javascript and the code in this repository) is
+licensed under the GNU GPLv3.0-or-later. The content of the web pages (HTML+CSS)
+is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
+License.
