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+;*=====================================================================*/
+;* serrano/prgm/project/skribe/doc/user/start.skb */
+;* ------------------------------------------------------------- */
+;* Author : Manuel Serrano */
+;* Creation : Mon Sep 1 11:22:25 2003 */
+;* Last change : Sun Feb 29 16:14:21 2004 (eg) */
+;* Copyright : 2003-04 Manuel Serrano */
+;* ------------------------------------------------------------- */
+;* Getting started with Skribe */
+;*=====================================================================*/
+
+;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+;* Getting started */
+;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+(chapter :title "Getting Started"
+
+(p [
+In this chapter, the syntax of a Skribe text is presented ,(emph "informally").
+In particular, the Skribe syntax is compared to the HTML syntax. Then,
+it is presented how one can use Skribe to make dynamic text
+(i.e texts which are generated by the system rather than entered-in by hand.
+Finally, It is also
+presented how Skribe source files can be processed.])
+
+;*--- Hello world -----------------------------------------------------*/
+(section :title "Hello World!" [
+In this section we show how to produce very simple electronic documents
+with Skribe. Suppose that we want to produce the following Web document:
+
+,(disp [,(font :size 2. (bold "Hello World!"))
+,(linebreak 2)
+This is a very simple text.])
+
+The HTML source file for such a page should look like:
+
+,(prgm :language xml [
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+<TITLE>Hello world Example</TITLE>
+</HEAD>
+<BODY>
+<H1>Hello World!</H1>
+
+This is a very simple text.
+</BODY>
+</HTML>])
+
+In Skribe, the very same document must be written:
+
+,(prgm :language skribe :file "src/start1.skb")])
+
+;*--- Adding colors and fonts -----------------------------------------*/
+(section :title "Adding colors and fonts" [
+Let us suppose that we want now to colorize and change the face of some
+words such as:
+
+,(disp [,(font :size 2. (bold "Hello World!"))
+,(linebreak 2)
+This is a ,(bold "very") ,(it "simple") ,(color :fg "red" "text").])
+
+The HTML source file for such a document should look like:
+
+,(prgm :language xml [
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+<TITLE>Hello world Example</TITLE>
+</HEAD>
+<BODY>
+<H1>Hello World!</H1>
+
+This is a <B>very</B> <I>simple</I> <FONT color="red">text</FONT>.
+</BODY>
+</HTML>])
+
+In Skribe, the very same document must be written:
+
+,(prgm :language skribe (source :file "src/start2.skb"))
+
+As one may notice the Skribe version is much more compact than the HTML one.])
+
+;*--- Structured documents --------------------------------------------*/
+(section :title "Structured documents" [
+,(p [For large documents there is an obvious need of structure. Skribe
+documents may contain ,(bold "chapters"), ,(bold "sections"),
+,(bold "subsections"), ,(bold "itemize"), ... For instance, if we want to
+extend our previous example to:])
+
+,(disp :verb #t [,(bold (font :size 2. "Hello World!"))
+
+,(font :size 1. (bold "1. A first Section"))
+This is a ,(bold "very") ,(it "simple") ,(color :fg "red" "text").
+
+,(font :size 1. (bold "2. A second Section"))
+That contains an ,(bold "itemize") construction:
+ . first item
+ . second item
+ . third item])
+
+The Skribe source for that text is:
+
+,(prgm :language skribe (source :file "src/start3.skb"))])
+
+;*--- Hyperlinks ------------------------------------------------------*/
+(section :title "Hyperlinks" [
+A Skribe document may contain links to chapters, to sections, to other
+Skribe documents or Web pages. The following Skribe source
+code illustrates these various kinds of links:
+
+,(prgm :language skribe (source :file "src/start4.skb"))])
+
+;*--- Dynamic documents -----------------------------------------------*/
+(section :title "Dynamic documents" [
+Since Skribe is a programming language, rather than just a markup language,
+it is easy to use it to generate some parts of a document. This section
+presents here the kind of documents that can be created with Skribe.
+
+,(subsection :title "Simple computations" [
+In this section we present how to introduce a simple computation into a
+document. For instance, the following sentence
+,(disp [
+Document creation date: ,(date)])
+is generated with the following piece of code
+
+,(prgm :language skribe [
+\[Document creation date: \,(date)\]
+])
+
+Here, we use the Skribe function ,(code "date") to compute the date to
+be inserted in the document. In general, any valid Scheme expression
+is authorized inside a ,(code ",(...)") construct.,(footnote
+[Skribe can be built either with Bigloo or STklos Scheme systems. The Scheme
+expressions which are valid inside a ,(code ",(...)") depends of the Scheme system
+used at Skribe construction.]).
+Another example of
+such a computation is given below.
+,(prgm :language skribe [
+\[The value of \,(symbol "pi") is \,(* 4 (atan 1))\]
+])
+When evaluated, this form produces the following output:
+,(disp [
+The value of ,(symbol "pi") is ,(* 4 (atan 1)).])
+])
+
+,(subsection :title "Text generation" [ When building a document, one
+often need to generate some repetitive text. Skribe programming skills
+can be used to ease the construction of such documents as illustrated below.
+,(disp
+(itemize
+ (map (lambda (x) (item [The square of ,(bold x) is ,(bold (* x x))]))
+ '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9))))
+This text has been generated with the following piece of code
+,(prgm :language skribe [
+(itemize
+ (map (lambda (x) (item \[The square of \,(bold x) is \,(bold (* x x))\]))
+ '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)))
+])])
+
+,(subsection :title "Introspection" [
+In Skribe, a document is represented by a tree which is available to
+the user. So, it is easy to perform introspective tasks on the current
+document. For instance the following code displays as an
+enumeration the sections titles of the current chapter:
+
+,(prgm :language skribe :file "src/start5.skb")
+
+Without entering too much into the details here, the resolve function
+is called at the end of the document processing. This function
+searches the node representing the chapter to which belongs the
+current node and from it finds all its sections. The titles
+of these sections are put in italics in an itemize.
+
+,(p [The execution of this code yield the following text])
+
+,(disp (include "src/start5.skb"))])
+])
+
+
+;*--- Compiling skribe documents --------------------------------------*/
+(section :title "Compiling Skribe documents" [
+
+There are several ways to render a Skribe document. It can be statically
+compiled by the ,(tt "skribe") compiler to various formats such as HTML,
+LaTeX, man and so on. It can be compiled on-demand by the ,(tt "mod_skribe")
+,(ref :url "http://www.apache.org/" :text "Apache") Skribe module. In this
+section we only present static compilation.
+
+,(p [Let us suppose a Skribe text located in a file ,(tt "file.skb").
+In order to compile to various formats one must type in:])
+
+,(disp :verb #t [
+$ skribe file.skb -o file.html ,(char 35) ,(it "This produces an HTML file.")
+$ skribe file.skb -o file.tex ,(char 35) ,(it "This produces a TeX file.")
+$ skribe file.skb -o file.man ,(char 35) ,(it "This produces a man page.")
+$ skribe file.skb -o file.info ,(char 35) ,(it "This produces an info page.")
+$ skribe file.skb -o file.mgp ,(char 35) ,(it "This produces a MagicPoint document")])]))