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SiSU - Manual,
Ralph Amissah
What is SiSU?
1. Introduction - What is SiSU?
2. How does sisu work?
3. Summary of features
4. Help
4.1 SiSU Manual
4.2 SiSU man pages
4.3 SiSU built-in interactive help
5. Commands Summary
5.1 Description
5.2 Document Processing Command Flags
6. command line modifiers
7. database commands
8. Shortcuts, Shorthand for multiple flags
8.1 Command Line with Flags - Batch Processing
9. Introduction to SiSU Markup 10
9.1 Summary
9.2 Markup Examples
9.2.1 Online
9.2.2 Installed
10. Markup of Headers
10.1 Sample Header
10.2 Available Headers
11. Markup of Substantive Text
11.1 Heading Levels
11.2 Font Attributes
11.3 Indentation and bullets
11.4 Footnotes / Endnotes
11.5 Links
11.5.1 Naked URLs within text, dealing with urls
11.5.2 Linking Text
11.5.3 Linking Images
11.6 Grouped Text
11.6.1 Tables
11.6.2 Poem
11.6.3 Group
11.6.4 Code
11.7 Book index
12. Composite documents markup
Markup Syntax History
13. Notes related to Files-types and Markup Syntax
14. SiSU filetypes
14.1 .sst .ssm .ssi marked up plain text
14.1.1 sisu text - regular files (.sst)
14.1.2 sisu master files (.ssm)
14.1.3 sisu insert files (.ssi)
14.2 sisupod, zipped binary container (sisupod.zip, .ssp)
15. Experimental Alternative Input Representations
15.1 Alternative XML
15.1.1 XML SAX representation
15.1.2 XML DOM representation
15.1.3 XML Node representation
16. Configuration
16.1 Determining the Current Configuration
16.2 Configuration files (config.yml)
17. Skins
17.1 Document Skin
17.2 Directory Skin
17.3 Site Skin
17.4 Sample Skins
18. CSS - Cascading Style Sheets (for html, XHTML and XML)
19. Organising Content
19.1 Directory Structure and Mapping
19.1.1 General Directories
19.1.2 Remote Directories
19.1.3 Sisupod
19.2 Organising Content
20. Homepages
20.1 Home page and other custom built pages in a sub-directory
20.2 Home page within a skin
21. Markup and Output Examples
21.1 Markup examples
21.2 A few book (and other) examples
21.2.1 "Viral Spiral", David Bollier
"The Wealth of Networks", Yochai Benkler
"Two Bits", Christopher Kelty
"Free Culture", Lawrence Lessig
"CONTENT", Cory Doctorow
"Democratizing Innovation", by Eric von Hippel
"Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software", by Sam Williams
"Free For All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High Tech Titans", by Peter Wayner
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar", by Eric S. Raymond
"Down and out in the Magic Kingdom", Cory Doctorow
"Little Brother", Cory Doctorow
"For the Win", Cory Doctorow
"Accelerando", Charles Stross
"Tainaron", Leena Krohn
"Sphinx or Robot", Leena Krohn
"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy, PG Etext 2600
"Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes [Saavedra], translated by John Ormsby, PG Etext 996
"Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift, transcribed from the 1892 George Bell and Sons edition by David Price, PG Etext 829
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll, PG Etext 11
"Through The Looking-Glass", Lewis Carroll, PG Etext 12
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through The Looking-Glass", Lewis Carroll, PG Etexts 11 and 12
"Gnu Public License 2", (GPL 2) Free Software Foundation
"Gnu Public License v3 - Third discussion draft", (GPLv3) Free Software Foundation
"Debian Social Contract"
"Debian Constitution v1.3", (simple/default markup)
"Debian Constitution v1.3", (markup adjusted for output to more closely match the original)
"Debian Constitution v1.2", (simple/default markup)
"Debian Constitution v1.2", (markup adjusted for output to more closely match the original)
"A Uniform Sales Terminology", Vikki Rogers and Albert Kritzer
"The Autonomous Contract" 1997 - markup sample
"The Autonomous Contract Revisited" - markup sample
"United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods"
/PECL/ the "Principles of European Contract Law"
21.3 SQL - PostgreSQL, SQLite
21.4 Lex Mercatoria as an example
21.5 For good measure the markup for a document with lots of (simple) tables
21.6 And a link to the output of a reported case
22. A Checklist of Output Features
23. SiSU Search - Introduction
24. SQL
24.1 populating SQL type databases
25. Postgresql
25.1 Name
25.2 Description
25.3 Synopsis
25.4 Commands
25.4.1 create and destroy database
25.4.2 import and remove documents
26. Sqlite
26.1 Name
26.2 Description
26.3 Synopsis
26.4 Commands
26.4.1 create and destroy database
26.4.2 import and remove documents
27. Introduction
27.1 Search - database frontend sample, utilising database and SiSU features, including object citation numbering (backend currently PostgreSQL)
27.2 Search Form
28. Hyperestraier
29. sisu_webrick
29.1 Name
29.2 Synopsis
29.3 Description
29.4 Summary of man page
29.5 Document processing command flags
29.6 Further information
29.7 Author
29.8 SEE ALSO
30. Remote Source Documents
Remote Document Output
31. Remote Output
31.1 commands
31.2 configuration
32. Remote Servers
Download information
33. Download SiSU - Linux/Unix
SiSU Current Version - Linux/Unix
Source (tarball tar.gz)
Git (source control management)
Debian
RPM
Installation
34. Installation
34.1 Debian
34.2 Other Unix / Linux
34.2.1 source tarball
35. SiSU Components, Dependencies and Notes
35.1 sisu
35.2 sisu-complete
35.3 sisu-examples
35.4 sisu-pdf
35.5 sisu-postgresql
35.6 sisu-remote
35.7 sisu-sqlite
36. Quickstart - Getting Started Howto
36.1 Installation
36.1.1 Debian Installation
36.1.2 RPM Installation
36.1.3 Installation from source
36.2 Testing SiSU, generating output
36.2.1 basic text, plaintext, html, XML, ODF, EPUB
36.2.2 LaTeX / pdf
36.2.3 relational database - postgresql, sqlite
36.3 Getting Help
36.3.1 The man pages
36.3.2 Built in help
36.3.3 The home page
36.4 Markup Samples
HowTo
37. Getting Help
37.1 SiSU "man" pages
37.2 SiSU built-in help
37.3 Command Line with Flags - Batch Processing
38. Setup, initialisation
38.1 initialise output directory
38.1.1 Use of search functionality, an example using sqlite
38.2 misc
38.2.1 url for output files -u -U
38.2.2 toggle screen color
38.2.3 verbose mode
38.2.4 quiet mode
38.2.5 maintenance mode intermediate files kept -M
38.2.6 start the webrick server
38.3 remote placement of output
39. Configuration Files
40. Markup
40.1 Headers
40.2 Font Face
40.2.1 Bold
40.2.2 Italics
40.2.3 Underscore
40.2.4 Strikethrough
40.3 Endnotes
40.4 Links
40.5 Number Titles
40.6 Line operations
40.7 Tables
40.8 Grouped Text
40.9 Composite Document
41. Change Appearance
41.1 Skins
41.2 CSS
Extracts from the README
42. README
42.1 Online Information, places to look
42.2 Installation
42.2.1 Debian
42.2.2 RPM
42.2.3 Source package .tgz
42.2.4 to use setup.rb
42.2.5 to use install (prapared with "Rake")
42.2.6 to use install (prapared with "Rant")
42.3 Dependencies
42.4 Quick start
42.5 Configuration files
42.6 Use General Overview
42.7 Help
42.8 Directory Structure
42.9 Configuration File
42.10 Markup
42.11 Additional Things
42.12 License
42.13 SiSU Standard
Extracts from man 8 sisu
43. Post Installation Setup
43.1 Post Installation Setup - Quick start
43.2 Document markup directory
43.2.1 Configuration files
43.2.2 Debian INSTALLATION Note
43.2.3 Document Resource Configuration
43.2.4 Skins
44. FAQ - Frequently Asked/Answered Questions
44.1 Why are urls produced with the -v (and -u) flag that point to a web server on port 8081 ?
44.2 I cannot find my output, where is it?
44.3 I do not get any pdf output, why?
44.4 Where is the latex (or some other interim) output?
44.5 Why isn't SiSU markup XML
44.6 LaTeX claims to be a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. Can the same be said about SiSU?
44.7 Can the SiSU markup be used to prepare for a LaTex automatic building of an index to the work?
44.8 Can the conversion from SiSU to LaTeX be modified if we have special needs for the LaTeX, or do we need to modify the LaTeX manually?
44.9 How do I create GIN or GiST index in Postgresql for use in SiSU
44.10 Are there some examples of using Ferret Search with a SiSU repository?
Have you had any reports of building SiSU from tar on Mac OS 10.4?
44.12 Where is version 1?
44.13 What is the difference between version 1 and 2?
45. Who might be interested in the SiSU feature set?
46. Work Needed
47. Wishlist
48. Editor Files, Syntax Highlighting
49. Help Sources
49.1 man pages
49.2 sisu generated output - links to html
49.2.1 www.sisudoc.org
49.3 man2html
49.3.1 locally installed
49.3.2 www.jus.uio.no/sisu
Endnotes
Endnotes
Metadata
SiSU Metadata, document information
Manifest
SiSU Manifest, alternative outputs etc.
SiSU - Manual,
What is SiSU?
Installation
36.1 Installation
36.1.1 Debian Installation
36.1.2 RPM Installation
36.1.3 Installation from source
36.2 Testing SiSU, generating output
36.2.1 basic text, plaintext, html, XML, ODF, EPUB
36.2.2 LaTeX / pdf
36.2.3 relational database - postgresql, sqlite
36.3 Getting Help
36.3.1 The man pages
36.3.2 Built in help
36.3.3 The home page
36.4 Markup Samples
Installation is currently most straightforward and tested on the Debian platform, as there are packages for the installation of sisu and all requirements for what it does.
SiSU is available directly from the Debian Sid and testing archives (and possibly Ubuntu), assuming your /etc/apt/sources.list is set accordingly:
aptitude update
aptitude install sisu-complete
The following /etc/apt/sources.list setting permits the download of additional markup samples:
#/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
The aptitude commands become:
aptitude update
aptitude install sisu-complete sisu-markup-samples
If there are newer versions of SiSU upstream of the Debian archives, they will be available by adding the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list
#/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non-free
deb-src http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non-free
repeat the aptitude commands
aptitude update
aptitude install sisu-complete sisu-markup-samples
Note however that it is not necessary to install sisu-complete if not all components of sisu are to be used. Installing just the package sisu will provide basic functionality.
RPMs are provided though untested, they are prepared by running alien against the source package, and against the debs.
They may be downloaded from:
as root type:
rpm -i [rpm package name]
To install SiSU from source check information at:
Two alternative modes of installation from source are provided, setup.rb (by Minero Aoki) and a rant(by Stefan Lang) built install file, in either case: the first steps are the same, download and unpack the source file:
For basic use SiSU is only dependent on the programming language in which it is written Ruby, and SiSU will be able to generate html, EPUB, various XMLs, including ODF (and will also produce LaTeX). Dependencies required for further actions, though it relies on the installation of additional dependencies which the source tarball does not take care of, for things like using a database (postgresql or sqlite) 99 or converting LaTeX to pdf.
setup.rb
This is a standard ruby installer, using setup.rb is a three step process. In the root directory of the unpacked SiSU as root type:
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
#[and as root:]
ruby setup.rb install
further information on setup.rb is available from:
"install"
The "install" file provided is an installer prepared using "rant". In the root directory of the unpacked SiSU as root type:
ruby install base
or for a more complete installation:
ruby install
or
ruby install base
This makes use of Rant (by Stefan Lang) and the provided Rantfile. It has been configured to do post installation setup setup configuration and generation of first test file. Note however, that additional external package dependencies, such as tetex-extra are not taken care of for you.
Further information on "rant" is available from:
For a list of alternative actions you may type:
ruby install help
ruby install -T
To check which version of sisu is installed:
sisu -v
Depending on your mode of installation one or a number of markup sample files may be found either in the directory:
...
or
...
change directory to the appropriate one:
cd /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples/samples
Having moved to the directory that contains the markup samples (see instructions above if necessary), choose a file and run sisu against it
sisu -NhwoabxXyv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
this will generate html including a concordance file, opendocument text format, plaintext, XHTML and various forms of XML, and OpenDocument text
Assuming a LaTeX engine such as tetex or texlive is installed with the required modules (done automatically on selection of sisu-pdf in Debian)
Having moved to the directory that contains the markup samples (see instructions above if necessary), choose a file and run sisu against it
sisu -pv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
sisu -3 free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
should generate most available output formats: html including a concordance file, opendocument text format, plaintext, XHTML and various forms of XML, and OpenDocument text and pdf
Relational databases need some setting up - you must have permission to create the database and write to it when you run sisu.
Assuming you have the database installed and the requisite permissions
sisu --sqlite --recreate
sisu --sqlite -v --import free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
sisu --pgsql --recreate
sisu --pgsql -v --import free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
Type:
man sisu
The man pages are also available online, though not always kept as up to date as within the package itself:
sisu --help
sisu --help --env
sisu --help --commands
sisu --help --markup
A number of markup samples (along with output) are available off:
Additional markup samples are packaged separately in the file:
***
On Debian they are available in non-free 103 to include them it is necessary to include non-free in your /etc/apt/source.list or obtain them from the sisu home site.
99. There is nothing to stop MySQL support being added in future.
100. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1.html›
101. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.8.html›
102. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man›
103. the Debian Free Software guidelines require that everything distributed within Debian can be changed - and the documents are authors' works that while freely distributable are not freely changeable.