elvish/website

This directory contains source for Elvish's official website.

The documents are written in GitHub-flavored markdown sprinkled with some HTML and custom macros. Most of them can be viewed directly in GitHub; notable exceptions are the homepage (home.md) and the download page (get/prelude.md).

Building

The website is a purely static one. It is built with a custom toolchain with the following dependencies:

• GNU Make (any "reasonably modern" version should do).

• Pandoc 2.2.1 (other versions in the 2.x series might also work).

• A Go toolchain, for building genblog and some custom preprocessors in the tools directory.

To build the website, just run make. The built website is in the _dst directory. You can then open _dst/index.html or run an HTTP server within _dst to preview.

NOTE: Although the website degrades gracefully when JavaScript is disabled, local viewing works best with JavaScript enabled. This is because relative paths like ./get will cause the browser to open the corresponding directory, instead of the index.html file under it, and we use JavaScript to patch such URLs dynamically.

Building the docset

Building the docset requires the following additional dependencies:

• Python 3 with Beautiful Soup 4 (install with pip install bs4).

• SQLite3 CLI.

Commit History

These files used to live in a separate repository. However, because @xiaq did not merge the repositories in the correct way (he simply copied all the files), the commit history is lost. Please see that repository for a full list of contributors.