SuperBASIC-Manual

RWAP Software's Online SuperBASIC manual - for conversion purposes

It is not expected that many people will fork this repository. It exists purely as a home for the working files etc that I create and use when I'm in the process of converting from badly created (by a computer!) HTML to ReStructuredText (all one word it seems!) so that I can create a nicer looking documentation system in HTML, ePub, pdf etc.

The Workflow

The following is a rough version of the nightmare that I went through, repeatedly, to get to where we are today!

Begin Outer Loop
   Exit Outer Loop when no more (original HTML) files remain.
   `git checkout working` to ensure we are on the working branch.
   `wget` the next HTML file from RWAP.
   
   Begin Inner Loop
     Run `Process.sh` against the HTML.
     If file is clean, or only has warnings, exit Inner Loop.
     Manually (yuk) correct *every* error and *some* warnings.
   End Inner Loop
   
   Trim off the navigation stuff from each HTML page. We only want the main div contents.
   Carry out some additional `sed` processing on the cleaned file.
   Convert the clean file to ReStructuredText using `Pandoc`.
   `git add` the various files - html, clean, errors, source - to the (working) repository.
   Add the new source file to the index.rst file, which defines the structure.
   `make clean` or the new file won't appear in the TOC.  
   Add a Keywords xxx Section heading to the source file.
   
   Repeat Edit Loop
     `make html` to test the build with the current file.
     View the HTML generated in a browser.
     If all ok and finished with this file, exit Edit Loop.
     Manually do some (more) editing to tidy up the generated source text.
   End Repeat Edit Loop  
   
   `make html` to create a nice HTML version of the completed file(s).
   `git add --all` to add all the finished files to the (working) repository.
   `git push` to push them to GitHub. This forces a build of the 'working' docs on ReadTheDocs.
   `git checkout master` to checkout the main clean master repository.
   `git merge working` to merge recent changes.
   `git push` to update GitHub and force a 'latest' build on ReadTheDocs.
End Outer Loop.

Begin Tidy Loop
   `make linkcheck`
   Attempt to locate invalid links, and correct them.
   Tidy up any tables etc that look like they need it.
End Tidy Loop

Folders

A number of folders exist:

• html - where the original html files are saved. Can be used to diff to check if changes are necessary. These are the files as downloaded from RWAPs web site.
• clean - where the cleaned files live. Clean files are assumed to have survived the Process.sh execution, and have had quite a lot of problems automatically resolved. There will still be much to do though. These files are used to create the ReStructuredText source files.
• sphinx - where we do the building. Uses the Makefile found here.
• sphinx/source - where the ReStructuredText files are kept. These are used to build stuff.
• sphinx/build/html - where the html files, created by Sphinx's make html command, will be found.
• sphinx/build/latex - where the latex and/or PDF files, created by Sphinx's make latex or make latexpdf, will be found.
• sphinx/build/linkcheck - where the html files, created by Sphinx's make linkcheck, will be found. These are used to assist in checking that links, internal and external, work ok.
• sphinx/build/doctrees - don't worry about this. Internal usage only. Don't edit any files here.