Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: scriptorium
Version: 2.7.2
Summary: Multimarkdown and LaTeX framework for academic papers.
Home-page: https://github.com/jasedit/scriptorium
Author: Jason Ziglar
Author-email: jasedit@gmail.com
License: MIT
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        Scriptorium
        ===========
        
        Framework for easily using MultiMarkdown and LaTeX based system to write
        academic papers, especially those with shared templates for
        organization. This system is designed with several important design
        guidelines and observations:
        
        1. Many academic publications are collaborative, continuously evolving
           works.
        2. Many academic publications provide LaTeX templates to meet the
           formatting guidelines for submission.
        3. Research groups often use common templates for documents, such as
           submitting to a particular conference repeatedly over the years, or
           thesis/dissertation requirements at a particular university.
        4. LaTeX can have a high learning curve for people unfamiliar with its
           syntax and style. Simpler markup langauges can sacrifice control for
           ease of use or readability. Ideally, a system would provide tools
           that cover the continuum between simplicity and control.
        5. Academic publications can have a mix of visibility/availability
           between groups. Some papers may be private to an individual, a group,
           some mix of groups, or publicly available. The tools for building
           papers may not share this variability of privacy.
        
        In light of these observations, this framework aims to provide:
        
        1. Version control for documents, allowing concurrent collaboration,
           full history tracking, branching for edits, etc.
        2. User friendly in syntax and operation, minimizing the requirement to
           learn gory internal details.
        3. Provide the ability to selectively access lower level commands for
           power users to fine tune results.
        4. A base for groups to use to distribute/share a common working base,
           with flexibility for individuals to choose documents which are
           present on their system.
        5. Fine grained privacy controls for controlling access to documents and
           intellectual property.
        6. Plain text as the basis for documents, ensuring that a wide variety
           of workflows and tools can be used to edit documents.
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        Linux Installation
        ------------------
        
        1. Install external dependencies:
        
           1. `git <https://git-scm.com/>`__
           2. `LaTeX <http://www.latex-project.org/>`__
        
              1. Some distributions don't include
                 `biber <http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net>`__, which should
                 be installed as well
        
           3. `Python <http://python.org/>`__
           4. `cmake <https://cmake.org/>`__, which is required to build
              MultiMarkdown
        
        2. Execute ``pip install scriptorium``
        3. Install the MultiMarkdown shared library by executing
           ``sudo python -c "import pymmd; pymmd.build_mmd()"``
        
        Mac Installation
        ================
        
        1. Install external dependencies:
        
           1. `git <https://git-scm.com/>`__
           2. `MacTeX <https://www.tug.org/mactex/>`__
           3. `pip <https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing/#install-or-upgrade-pip>`__
        
        2. Execute ``pip install scriptorium``
        
        Windows Setup
        -------------
        
        These instructions provide a method to configure Scriptorium to work on
        Windows with a minimum of fuss. There are many other ways to configure
        this system, and cleaner instructions would be appreciated in a pull
        request
        
        1. Install the `GitHub Desktop Client <https://desktop.github.com/>`__,
           and follow the directions to configure it with your GitHub account.
        2. Install `MikTex <http://miktex.org/>`__
        3. Install `Python <https://www.python.org/downloads/>`__
        4. Modify the Environment Variables to add Python to the ``PATH``
           variable. Based on the helpful instructions
           `here <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23400030/windows-7-add-path>`__:
        
           1. Right click on "My Computer" and select Properties
           2. In the System Properties window, click on Advanced
           3. Click on the "Environment Variables" button
           4. Select the ``PATH`` variable, and add Python. The default values
              would be ``C:\Python27`` and ``C:\Python27\Scripts`` for Python
              2.7, or ``C:\Python35`` and ``C:\Python35\Scripts`` for Python
              3.5, although this would changed if the installation directories
              were changed in previous steps.
        
        5. Open the "Git Shell" installed by GitHub, and verify that
           ``python.exe`` and ``pip`` are recognized commands.
        6. Execute ``pip install scriptorium``
        
        Tutorial
        ========
        
        Scriptorium can be invoked directly from the command line using the name
        ``scriptorium``.
        
        Check that all external dependencies are installed and detected
        correctly, by veryifying the following command returns nothing:
        
        ::
        
            scriptorium doctor
        
        You can check where templates will be installed:
        
        ::
        
            scriptorium config TEMPLATE_DIR
        
        or change the directory:
        
        ::
        
            scriptorium config TEMPLATE_DIR ~/.scriptorium/templates
        
        Install some example
        `templates <https://github.com/jasedit/simple_templates>`__:
        
        ::
        
            scriptorium template -i https://github.com/jasedit/simple_templates.git
        
        To list which templates are currently available in scriptorium:
        
        ::
        
            scriptorium template -l
        
        To create a new paper in the directory ``example_report`` using the
        report template previously installed:
        
        ::
        
            scriptorium new example_report -t report -c author "John Doe" -c title "My Example Report"
        
        Adding example content using the command:
        
        ::
        
            echo "
        
            # Introduction
        
            This is an introductory section." >> example_report/paper.mmd
        
        The PDF of the report can be built using:
        
        ::
        
            scriptorium build example_report
        
        or, if inside ``example_report``:
        
        ::
        
            scriptorium build
        
        Papers Organization
        -------------------
        
        Since papers in development are generally not open-source, this
        framework pushes papers into standalone folders. Storing these folders
        in version control is **STRONGLY** encouraged, though not strictly
        required by the system. Generally, version control repositories don't
        handle binary files (e.g. images) particularly well, so it is
        recommended to break up papers into more repositories to require less
        overhead storing history, as well as providing finer granularity in
        sharing papers.
        
        Paper Metadata
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        In order to integrate the template system, the MultiMarkdown metadata
        header requires a few important statements. Consider an example header,
        as shown below.
        
        ::
        
            Base Header Level: 3
            latex author: Author
            Title: Paper Title
            myemail: author@place.com
            latex input: template/setup.tex
            latex footer: template/footer.ex
        
        The Base Header Level is important for configuring MultiMarkdown to
        avoid section levels which may not be supported by the template being
        used. Level 1 is the ``\chapter`` command in LaTeX, which is often
        unused in conference papers. The ``latex author`` key bypasses input
        sanitization, allowing LaTeX specific commands in the authors title.
        ``myemail`` is the author's e-mail address. The input and footer are
        used to read the template preamble and footer. Some templates will also
        read a ``metadata.tex`` file, which provides a direct LaTeX file for
        specifying metadata when LaTeX specific commands are necessary.
        
        Template Organization
        ---------------------
        
        A template defines the latex setup defining how a paper is going to be
        laid out, which packages it will use, etc. For reference, consider
        templates in the `simple
        templates <https://github.com/jasedit/simple_templates>`__ repository. A
        template is made in a few steps:
        
        1. A folder inside the templates directory. The name of this folder is
           what is used to reference the template in a MultiMarkdown paper, by
           LaTeX's recursive subdirectory search.
        2. A LaTeX file named ``setup.tex`` inside this folder, which contains
           the template preamble. The preamble should include everything at the
           start of the document before the content, through the
           ``\begin{document}`` statement. More may be included in this
           preamble, such as seen in the IEEEtran example in the simple
           templates.
        3. A LaTeX file named ``footer.tex`` inside this folder, which contains
           any LaTeX which should be appended to the end of the file. This often
           includes the bibliography commands. The IEEEtran ``footer.tex`` file
           is a good example of such a footer.
        4. An optional ``frontmatter.mmd`` and/or ``metadata.tex`` file, which
           contains a default values, minus the input and footer values. Any
           field can have a value starting with a dollar sign, and capital
           alphanumeric and ``_``, ``.``, or ``-``, which are replaceable during
           the ``new`` command.
        
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Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Filters
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
