handbuch-gen/README.md

# rtfm

this projects is an experiment of how to generate html, epub and pdf
from the git repository for the WTF Handbook.
The handbuch sources are included as git submodule.

It contains a configuration for three different generators:

## mdbook and mdbook-epub

tbd more details on README.md in mdbook directory

## crowbook

tbd more details on README.md in crowbook directory

## sphinx

tbd more details on README.md in sphinx directory

## How to build

### rust based tools mdbook and crowbook

For building you need a rust installation.
This can be achieved by using the installer from https://rustup.rs

After installing the rust toolchain for your platform you have to install the needed tools:
````
cargo install mdbook
cargo install mdbook-epub
cargo install crowbook
````

Crowbook needs xelatex for building the pdf outputs.

### python based - sphinx

First create a Python 3 virtual environment using the venv module included with Python 3.

````
 python -m venv py3-sphinx
`````

Now “activate” the environment. Look for the name of the virtual environment enclosed in parenthesis after activation.

`````
 source py3-sphinx/bin/activate
``````

Expected Output
`````
 (py3-sphinx) $
``````

In the virtual environment install the following modules with pip:

`````
 (py3-sphinx) $ pip install sphinx3 sphinxcontrib-plantuml myst_parser
``````

For generating the images from plantuml-sources it needs also [Plantuml](https://plantuml.com/).
For pdf output the latex builder is used, so it needs also an installed latex and pdflatex.

## 
## Issues
### mdbook - rendering problem with current inputs

### sphinx - Problems rendering latex with .svg image(organigramm.svg)

### problems rendering links not starting with http(s)
mumble and mailto links are not rendered correctly
tbd have an eye on all outputs

## TODO

### unify Title and authors in the configurations