The Markbook script

The Markbook files are converted to HTML using a script called bin/markbook.

The script takes two arguments the source directory containing the Markdown files, and the destination directory, which should already exist.

bin/markbook example_book example_output

The script performs the following operations.

• Convert all md files to html appending headers and footers and replacing variables from the meta data.
• Create tocs.
• Copies static content from .img/ and .css/ to the destination directories img/ and css/.
• Copies any html files overriding the generated files.

A Markdown page is generated as follows.

• cat the .head.html file to the new destination file, created with extension .html.
• Convert the .header.md file from Markdown to HTML and append it to the HTML file.
• Convert the main Markdown data from Markdown to HTML and append it to the file.
• Convert the .footer.md file from Markdown to HTML and append it to the file.
• cat the .tail.html file appending to the destination file.

All files are optional, if .head.html or .tail.html do not exists defaults from markbook/lib/html are used.

If .css/ does not exist markbook/lib/css is copied to the output.

If .img/ does not exist markbook/lib/css is copied to the output.