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% SiSU insert 4.0

@title: SiSU
 :subtitle: Technical, Howto

@creator:
 :author: Amissah, Ralph

@date:
 :published: 2007-09-16
 :created: 2002-11-12
 :issued: 2002-11-12
 :available: 2002-11-12
 :modified: 2012-10-03

@rights:
 :copyright: Copyright (C) Ralph Amissah 2007
 :license: GPL 3 (part of SiSU documentation)

@classify:
 :topic_register: SiSU:manual:howto;electronic documents:SiSU:manual:howto;SiSU:document:howto;sisu:document:howto
 :subject: ebook, epublishing, electronic book, electronic publishing, electronic document, electronic citation, data structure, citation systems, search

:A~? @title @creator

:B~? SiSU some technical information

:C~ HowTo

1~howto_help Getting Help

An online manual of sorts should be available at:

http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu_manual/

The manual pages provided with SiSU are also available online, and there is an interactive help, which is being superseded by the man page, and possibly some document which contains this component.

2~ SiSU "man" pages *~man
={ SiSU help:manpage }

If SiSU is installed on your system usual man commands should be available, try:

man sisu

The SiSU man pages can be viewed online at:~{ generated from source using rman \\ http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/rman.html \\With regard to SiSU man pages the formatting generated for markup syntax is not quite right, for that you might prefer the links under: \\ http://www.jus.uio.no/sample }~

An online version of the sisu man page is available here:

_* {~^ various sisu man pages }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/

_* {~^ sisu.1 }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1.html

_* {~^ sisu.8 }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.8.html

_* {~^ sisu_webrick.1 }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu_webrick.1.html

1~howto_setup Setup, initialisation
={ SiSU:initialize }

2~ initialise output directory

Images, css files for a document directory are copied to their respective locations in the output directory.

while within your document markup/preparation directory, issue the following command

_1 sisu --config

3~ Use of search functionality, an example using sqlite

SiSU can populate PostgreSQL and Sqlite databases and provides a sample search form for querying these databases.

This note provides an example to get you started and will use sqlite

It is necessary to:

(1) make sure the required dependencies have been installed

(2) have a directory with sisu markup samples that is writable

(3) use sisu to create a database

(4) use sisu tp populate a database

(5) use sisu to start the webrick (httpd) server

(6) use sisu to create a search form

(7) copy the search form to the cgi directory

(8) open up the form in your browser

(9) query the database using the search form

!_ (1) make sure the required dependencies have been installed

if you use Debian, the following command will install the required dependencies

aptitude install sisu-sqlite

!_ (2) have a directory with sisu markup samples that is writable

ideally copy the sisu-examples directory to your home directory (because the directory in which you run this example should be writable)

cp -rv /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples/samples .

you are better off installing the package sisu-markup-samples which will make the following available

cp -rv /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples-non-free/samples .

!_ (3) use sisu to create an sqlite database

within the sisu-examples directory

sisu -dv createall

!_ (4) use sisu tp populate a database with some text

within the sisu-examples directory

sisu -div free_*.sst

or

sisu -dv import free_*.sst debian_constitution_v1.2.sst debian_social_contract_v1.1.sst gpl2.fsf.sst

!_ (5) use sisu to start the webrick (httpd) server (if it has not already been started):

sisu -W

!_ (6) use sisu to create a search form (for use with the webrick server, and your sample documents)

within the sisu-examples directory

sisu -F webserv=webrick

and follow the instructions provided

#here i run into a problem, you are working from a read only
#directory..., not my usual mode of operation, to complete the example
#the following is necessary
sudo touch sisu_sqlite.cgi sisu_pgsql.cgi
sudo -P chown $USER sisu_sqlite.cgi sisu_pgsql.cgi

#now this should be possible:
sisu -F webrick

!_ (7) copy the search form to the cgi directory

sisu -F webserv=webrick

and follow the instructions provided

% sudo chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sisu_sqlite.cgi

!_ (8) open up the form in your browser and query it

url:

http://localhost:8081/cgi-bin/sisu_sqlite.cgi

or as instructed by command sisu -F webrick

!_ (9) query the database using the search form

if there are other options in the dropdown menu select

document_samples_sisu_markup

and search for some text, e.g.:

aim OR project

_* selecting the *index* radio button gives an index of results using the object numbers

_* selecting the *text* radio button gives the content of the matched paragraphs with the match highlighted

!_ (10) to start again with a new database

to start from scratch you can drop the database with the command

sisu -dv dropall

and go to step 3

to get to step 3 in one step with a single command

sisu -dv recreate

continue subsequent steps

2~ misc

3~ url for output files -u -U

_1 sisu -uv[and other flags] [filename/wildcard]

_1 sisu -Uv [filename/wildcard]

3~ toggle screen color

_1 sisu -cv[and processing flags] [filename/wildcard]

3~ verbose mode

_1 sisu -v[and processing flags] [filename/wildcard]

_1 sisu -V[and processing flags] [filename/wildcard]

3~ quiet mode

_1 sisu -q[and processing flags] [filename/wildcard]

3~ maintenance mode
intermediate files kept -M

_1 sisu -Mv[and other flags] [filename/wildcard]

3~ start the webrick server

_1 sisu -W

2~ remote placement of output

configuration is necessary

scp

_1 sisu -vr[and processing flags] [filename/wildcard]

rsync

_1 sisu -vR[and processing flags] [filename/wildcard]

1~howto_config Configuration Files

Sample provided, on untarring the source tarball:

_1 conf/sisu/v5/sisurc.yml

_1 conf/sisu/v6/sisurc.yml

and on installation under:

_1 /etc/sisu/v5/sisurc.yml

_1 /etc/sisu/v6/sisurc.yml

The following paths are searched:

_1 ./_sisu/v5/sisurc.yml or ./_sisu/v6/sisurc.yml

_1 ./_sisu/sisurc.yml

_1 ~/.sisu/v5/sisurc.yml or ~/.sisu/v6/sisurc.yml

_1 ~/.sisu/sisurc.yml

_1 /etc/sisu/v5/sisurc.yml /etc/sisu/v6/sisurc.yml

_1 /etc/sisu/sisurc.yml

1~howto_markup Markup

See sample markup provided on

http://www.sisudoc.org/

http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu

http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu_markup

http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU

in particular for each of the document output samples provided, the source document is provided as well

http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html

on untarring the source tarball:

_1 data/doc/sisu/markup-samples

or the same once source is installed (or sisu-examples) under:

_1 /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples/

and if you have sisu-markup-samples installed, under

_1 data/doc/sisu/markup-samples-non-free/

_1 /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples-non-free/

Some notes are contained within the man page, *{man sisu}* and within sisu help via the commands *{sisu help markup}* and *{sisu help headers}*

SiSU is for literary and legal text, also for some social science material. In particular it does not do formula, and is not particularly suited to technical documentation. Despite the latter caveat, some notes will be provided here and added to over time:

2~ Headers

Headers @headername: provide information related to the document, this may relate to

# how it is to be processed, such as whether headings are to be numbered, what skin is to be used and markup instructions, such as the document structure, or words to be made bold within the document

# semantic information about the document including the dublin core

2~ Font Face

Defaults are set. You may change the face to: bold, italics, underscore, strikethrough, ...

3~ Bold

\@bold: [list of words that should be made bold within document]

!_ bold line

\!_ bold line

*{ bold word or sentence }*

!\{ bold word or sentence \}!

*\{ bold word or sentence \}*

*boldword* or !boldword!

\*boldword\* or \!boldword\!

3~ Italics

\@italics: [list of words that should be italicised within document]

/{ italicise word or sentence }/

/\{ italicise word or sentence \}/

/italicisedword/

\/italicisedword\/

3~ Underscore

_{ underscore word or sentence }_

_\{ underscore word or sentence \}_

_underscoreword_

3~ Strikethrough

-{ strikethrough word or sentence }-

-\{ strikethrough word or sentence \}-

-strikeword-

\-strikeword\-

2~ Endnotes

There are two forms of markup for endnotes, they cannot be mixed within the same document

here~{ this is an endnote }~

# preferred endnote markup

here~\{ this is an endnote \}~

# alternative markup equivalent, kept because it is possible to search and replace to get markup in existing texts such as Project Gutenberg

here\~^

^\~ this is an endote

2~ Links

{ SiSU }http://www.sisudoc.org

code{

{ SiSU }http://www.sisudoc.org

}code

{sisu.png }http://www.sisudoc.org

code{

{sisu.png }http://www.sisudoc.org

}code

{tux.png 64x80 }image

code{

{ tux.png 64x80 }image

}code

{~^ SiSU }http://www.sisudoc.org

code{

{~^ SiSU }http://www.sisudoc.org

}code

is equivalent to:

code{

{ SiSU }http://www.sisudoc.org ~{ http://www.sisudoc.org }~

}code

the same can be done with an image:

{~^ sisu.png "SiSU" }http://www.sisudoc.org

code{

{~^ sisu.png "SiSU" }http://www.sisudoc.org

}code

2~ Number Titles

Set with the header @markup:

2~ Line operations

Line Operations (marker placed at start of line)

\!_ bold line

!_ bold line

\_1 indent paragraph one level

_1 indent paragraph one level

\_2 indent paragraph two steps

_2 indent paragraph two steps

\_* bullet paragraph

_* bullet paragraph

\# number paragraph          (see headers  for  numbering  document headings)

# number paragraph          (see headers  for  numbering  document headings)

\_#  number  paragraph level 2  (see headers for numbering document headings)

_#  number paragraph level 2 (see headers for numbering document headings)

2~ Tables

Table markup sample

code{

table{~h c3; 26; 32; 32;

This is a table, column1
this would become row one of column two
column three of row one is here

column one row 2
column two of row two
column three of row two, and so on

column one row three
and so on
here

}table

}code

Alternative form of table markup

code{

{t~h}
     |Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun
0    | * | * | * | * | * | * | *
1    | * | * | * | * |   |   |
2    | - | * | * | * | * | * |
3    | - | * | * | * | * | * | *
4    | - |   |   | * | * | * |
5    | * | * | * | * | * | * | *

}code

2~ Grouped Text

code{

  5.times { puts 'Ruby' }

}code

code\{

code{

  5.times { puts 'Ruby' }

}code

\}code

poem{

A Limerick

There was a young lady from Clyde,
who ate a green apple and died,
but the apple fermented inside the lamented,
and made cider inside her inside.

}poem

code{

poem{

There was a young lady from Clyde,
who ate a green apple and died,
but the apple fermented inside the lamented,
and made cider inside her inside.

}poem

}code

2~ Composite Document

To import another document, the master document or importing document should be named filename.r3 (r for require)

\<\< \{ filename.sst \}

\<\< \{ filename.ssi \}

1~howto_appearance Change Appearance

2~ Skins

"Skins" are gone since v4 replaced by @make: :header: within a document, and a common shared _sisu/sisu_document_make file (which uses identical parameters to the individual documents @make: :header:)

2~ CSS

The appearance of html and XML related output can be changed for an ouput collection directory by prepareing and placing a new css file in one of the sisu css directories searched in the sisu configuration path. These are located at:

_./_sisu/css

~/.sisu/css

and

/etc/sisu/css

The contents of the first directory found in the search path are copied to the corresponding sisu output directory with the commnd:

sisu -CC

The SiSU standard css files for SiSU output are:

dom.css html.css html_tables.css index.css sax.css xhtml.css

A document may specify its own/bespoke css file using the css header.

\@css:

[expand]

:C~ Extracts from the README

1~howto_readme README

SiSU 0.55 2007w27/6 2007-07-07

Homepage: http://www.sisudoc.org

old homepage: http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu

!_ Description

SiSU is lightweight markup based document creation and publishing framework that is controlled from the command line. Prepare documents for SiSU using your text editor of choice, then use SiSU to generate various output document formats.

With minimal preparation of a plain-text (UTF-8) file using its native markup-syntax, SiSU produces: plain-text, HTML, XHTML, EPUB, XML, ODF:ODT (Opendocument), LaTeX, PDF, and populates an SQL database (PostgreSQL or SQLite) in paragraph sized chunks so that document searches are done at this "atomic" level of granularity.

Outputs share a common citation numbering system, and any semantic meta-data provided about the document.

SiSU also provides concordance files, document content certificates and manifests of generated output.

SiSU takes advantage of well established open standard ways of representing text, and provides a bridge to take advantage of the strengths of each, while remaining simple. SiSU implements across document formats a "useful common feature set" [coming from a humanities, law, and possibly social sciences perspective, rather than technical or scientific writing] ... focus is primarily on content and data integrity rather than appearance, (though outputs in the various formats are respectable).

A vim syntax highlighting file and an ftplugin with folds for sisu markup is provided. Vim 7 includes syntax highlighting for SiSU.

man pages, and interactive help are provided.

Dependencies for various features are taken care of in sisu related packages. The package sisu-complete installs the whole of SiSU.

Additional document markup samples are provided in the package sisu-markup-samples which is found in the non-free archive the licenses for the substantive content of the marked up documents provided is that provided by the author or original publisher.

Homepage: http://www.sisudoc.org

old homepage: http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu

SiSU - simple information structuring universe, is a publishing tool, document generation and management, (and search enabling) tool primarily for literary, academic and legal published works.

SiSU can be used for Internet, Intranet, local filesystem or cd publishing.

SiSU can be used directly off the filesystem, or from a database.

SiSU's scalability, is dependent on your hardware, and filesystem, and/or database Postgresql.

Amongst it's characteristics are:

_* simple mnemonoic markup style,

_* the ability to produce multiple output formats, including html, structured XML, LaTeX, pdf (via LaTeX), stream to a relational database whilst retaining document structure - Postgresql and Sqlite,

_* that all share a common citation system (a simple idea from which much good), possibly most exciting, the following: if fed into a relational database (as it can be automatically), the document set is searchable, with results displayed at a paragraph level, or the possibility of an indexed display of documents in which the match is found together with a hyperlinked listing for each of each paragraph in which the match is found. In any event citations using this system (with or without the relational database) are relevant for all output formats.

_* it is command line driven, and can be set up on a remote server

_* Documents are marked up in SiSU syntax in your favourite editor. SiSU syntax may be regarded as a type of smart ascii - which in its basic form is simpler than the most elementary html. There is currently a syntax highlighter, and folding for Vim. Syntax highlighters for other editors are welcome.

Input files should be UTF-8

Once set up it is simple to use.

2~ Online Information, places to look

http://www.sisudoc.org

http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu

Download Sources:

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#current

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#debian

2~ Installation

NB. Platform is Unix / Linux.

3~ Debian

If you use Debian use the Debian packages, check the information at:

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#debian

(A) SiSU is available directly off the Debian archives for Sid and testing. It
should necessary only to run as root:

_1 aptitude update

_1 aptitude install sisu-complete

(B) 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

_1 deb http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non-free

_1 deb-src http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non-free

[the non-free line is for document markup samples, for which the substantive text is provided under the author or original publisher's license and which in most cases will not be debian free software guideline compliant]

Then as root run:

_1 aptitude update

_1 aptitude install sisu-complete

3~ RPM

RPMs are provided though untested, they are prepared by running alien against the source package, and against the debs.

They may be downloaded from:

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#rpm

3~ Source package .tgz

Otherwise to install SiSU from source, check information at:

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#current

alternative modes of installation from source are provided, setup.rb (by Minero Aoki), rake (by Jim Weirich) built install file, rant (by Stefan Lang) built install file,

Ruby is the essential dependency for the basic operation of SiSU

1. Download the latest source (information available) from:

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#current

2. Unpack the source

Note however, that additional external package dependencies, such as texlive or postgresql should you desire to use it are not taken care of for you.

3~ to use setup.rb

this is a three step process, in the root directory of the unpacked SiSU as root type:

_1 ruby setup.rb config

_1 ruby setup.rb setup

as root:

_1 ruby setup.rb install

further information:

_1 http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/

_1 http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/doc/usage.html

3~ to use install (prapared with "Rake")

Rake must be installed on your system:

_1 http://rake.rubyforge.org/

_1 http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=50

in the root directory of the unpacked SiSU as root type:

_1 rake

or

_1 rake base

This makes use of Rake (by Jim Weirich) and the provided Rakefile

For a list of alternative actions you may type:

_1 rake help

_1 rake -T

3~ to use install (prapared with "Rant")

(you may use the instructions above for rake substituting rant if rant is
installed on your system, or you may use an independent installer created using
rant as follows:)

in the root directory of the unpacked SiSU as root type:

_1 ruby ./sisu-install

or

_1 ruby ./sisu-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:

_1 http://make.rubyforge.org/

_1 http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=615

For a list of alternative actions you may type:

_1 ruby ./sisu-install help

_1 ruby ./sisu-install -T

2~ Dependencies

Once installed see 'man 8 sisu' for some information on additional programs that sisu makes use of, and that you may need or wish to install. (this will depend on such factors as whether you want to generate pdf, whether you will be using SiSU with or without a database, ...) 'man sisu-markup-samples' may also be of interest if the sisu-markup-samples package has also been installed.

The information in man 8 may not be most up to date, and it is possible that more useful information can be gleaned from the following notes taken from the Debian control file (end edited), gives an idea of additional packages that SiSU can make use of if available, (the use/requirement of some of which are interdependent for specific actions by SiSU).

The following is from the debian/control file of sisu-3.0.2, which amongst other things provides the dependencies of sisu within Debian.

code{

Source: sisu
Section: text
Priority: optional
Maintainer: SiSU Project <sisu@lists.sisudoc.org>
Uploaders: Ralph Amissah <ralph@amissah.com>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8)
Standards-Version: 3.9.1
Homepage: http://www.sisudoc.org/
Vcs-Browser: http://git.sisudoc.org/?p=code/sisu.git
Vcs-Git: git://git.sisudoc.org/git/code/sisu.git
XS-Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes

}code

code{

Package: sisu
Architecture: all
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ruby (>= 1.8.2), libwebrick-ruby, rsync, unzip, zip
Recommends:
 sisu-pdf, sisu-sqlite, sisu-postgresql, imagemagick, keychain, librmagick-ruby,
 librexml-ruby, openssl, openssh-client | lsh-client, tidy, vim-addon-manager
Suggests: lv, calibre, pinfo, texinfo, trang
Conflicts: sisu-markup-samples (<= 1.0.11)
Replaces: sisu-markup-samples (<= 1.0.11)
Description: documents - structuring, publishing in multiple formats and search
 SiSU is a lightweight markup based, command line oriented, document
 structuring, publishing and search framework for document collections.
 .
 With minimal preparation of a plain-text, (UTF-8) file, using its native
 markup syntax in your text editor of choice, SiSU can generate various
 document formats (most of which share a common object numbering system for
 locating content), including plain text, HTML, XHTML, XML, EPUB, OpenDocument
 text (ODF:ODT), LaTeX, PDF files, and populate an SQL database with objects
 (roughly paragraph-sized chunks) so searches may be performed and matches
 returned with that degree of granularity: your search criteria is met by these
 documents and at these locations within each document. Object numbering is
 particularly suitable for "published" works (finalized texts as opposed to
 works that are frequently changed or updated) for which it provides a fixed
 means of reference of content. Document outputs also share semantic meta-data
 provided.
 .
 SiSU also provides concordance files, document content certificates and
 manifests of generated output.
 .
 A vim syntax highlighting file and an ftplugin with folds for sisu markup is
 provided, as are syntax highlighting files for kate, kwrite, gedit and
 diakonos. Vim 7 includes syntax highlighting for SiSU.
 .
 man pages, and interactive help are provided.
 .
 Dependencies for various features are taken care of in sisu related packages.
 The package sisu-complete installs the whole of SiSU.
 .
 Additional document markup samples are provided in the package
 sisu-markup-samples which is found in the non-free archive the licenses for
 the substantive content of the marked up documents provided is that provided
 by the author or original publisher.

}code

code{

Package: sisu-complete
Architecture: all
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends}, ruby (>= 1.8.2), sisu (= ${source:Version}), 
 sisu-pdf (= ${source:Version}), sisu-postgresql (= ${source:Version}), 
 sisu-sqlite (= ${source:Version})
Description: installs all SiSU related packages
 SiSU is a lightweight markup based document structuring, publishing and search
 framework for document collections.
 .
 This package installs SiSU and related packages that enable sisu to produce
 pdf and to populate PostgreSQL and sqlite databases.
 .
 See sisu for a description of the package.

}code

code{

Package: sisu-pdf
Architecture: all
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends}, sisu, texlive-latex-base, texlive-fonts-recommended,
 texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-xetex, lmodern,
 ttf-liberation
Suggests: evince | pdf-viewer
Description: dependencies to convert SiSU LaTeX output to pdf
 SiSU is a lightweight markup based document structuring, publishing and search
 framework for document collections.
 .
 This package enables the conversion of SiSU LaTeX output to pdf.

}code

code{

Package: sisu-pdf
Architecture: all
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends}, sisu, texlive-latex-base, texlive-fonts-recommended,
 texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-xetex, lmodern,
 ttf-liberation
Suggests: evince | pdf-viewer
Description: dependencies to convert SiSU LaTeX output to pdf
 SiSU is a lightweight markup based document structuring, publishing and search
 framework for document collections.
 .
 This package enables the conversion of SiSU LaTeX output to pdf.

}code

code{

Package: sisu-postgresql
Architecture: all
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends}, sisu, libdbd-pg-ruby, libdbd-pg-ruby1.8, libdbi-ruby,
 libdbi-ruby1.8, libdbm-ruby, postgresql, libfcgi-ruby1.8 | libfcgi-ruby1.9.1
Suggests: postgresql-contrib
Description: SiSU dependencies for use with PostgreSQL database
 SiSU is a lightweight markup based document structuring, publishing and search
 framework for document collections.
 .
 This package enables SiSU to populate a PostgreSQL database. This is done at
 an object/paragraph level, making granular searches of documents possible.
 .
 This relational database feature of SiSU is not required but provides
 interesting possibilities, including that of granular searches of documents
 for matching units of text, primarily paragraphs that can be displayed or
 identified by object citation number, from which an index of documents
 matched and each matched paragraph within them can be displayed.

}code

code{

Package: sisu-sqlite
Architecture: all
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends}, sisu, sqlite3, libsqlite3-ruby, libdbd-sqlite3-ruby,
 libdbd-sqlite3-ruby1.8, libdbi-ruby, libdbi-ruby1.8, libdbm-ruby,
 libfcgi-ruby1.8 | libfcgi-ruby1.9.1
Description: SiSU dependencies for use with SQLite database
 SiSU is a lightweight markup based document structuring, publishing and search
 framework for document collections.
 .
 This package enables SiSU to populate an SQLite database. This is done at an
 object/paragraph level, making granular searches of documents possible.
 .
 This relational database feature of SiSU is not required but provides
 interesting possibilities, including that of granular searches of documents
 for matching units of text, primarily paragraphs that can be displayed or
 identified by object citation number, from which an index of documents
 matched and each matched paragraph within them can be displayed.

}code

2~ Quick start

Most of the installation should be taken care of by the aptitude or rant
install. (The rant install if run in full will also test run the generation of
the first document).

After installation of sisu-complete, move to the document samples directory

_1 cd /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples/samples

and run

_1 sisu -3 free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

or the same:

_1 sisu -NhwpoabxXyv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

look at output results, see the "sisu_manifest" page created for the document

or to generate an online document move to a writable directory, as the file will be downloaded there and e.g.

sisu -3 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/src/free_culture.lawrence_lessig.sst

the database stuff is extra perhaps, the latex stuff could be considered extra perhaps but neither needs to be installed for most of sisu output to work

examine source document, vim has syntax support

gvim free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

additional markup samples in

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html

For help

_1 man sisu

or

_1 sisu --help

e.g.

for the way sisu "sees/maps" your system

_1 sisu --help env

for list of commands and so on

_1 sisu --help commands

2~ Configuration files

The default configuration/setup is contained within the program and is altered by configuration settings in /etc/[sisu version]/sisurc.yml or in ~/.sisu/sisurc.yml

_* configuration file - a yaml file

_1 /etc/sisu/[sisu version]/sisurc.yml

_1 ~/.sisu/sisurc.yml

_* directory structure - setting up of output and working directory.

_* additional software - eg. Tex and LaTeX (tetex, tetex-base, tetex-extra on Debian), Postgresql, [sqlite], trang, tidy, makeinfo, ... none of which are required for basic html or XML processing.

_* if you use Vim as editor there is a syntax highlighter and fold resource config file for SiSU. I hope more syntax highlighters follow.

There are post installation steps (which are really part of the overall installation)

sisu -C in your marked up document directory, should do some auto-configuring provided you have the right permissions for the output directories. (and provided the output directories have already been specified if you are not using the defaults).

2~ Use General Overview

Documents are marked up in SiSU syntax and kept in an ordinary text editable file, named with the suffix .sst, or .ssm

Marked up SiSU documents are usually kept in a sub-directory of your choosing

use the interactive help and man pages

_1 sisu --help

_1 man sisu

2~ Help

interactive help described below, or man page:

_1 man sisu

_1 man 8 sisu

'man sisu_markup-samples' [if the sisu-markup-samples package is also installed]

Once installed an interactive help is available typing 'sisu' (without) any flags, and select an option:

_1 sisu

alternatively, you could type e.g.

_1 sisu --help commands

_1 sisu --help env

_1 sisu --help headers

_1 sisu --help markup

_1 sisu --help headings

etc.

for questions about mappings, output paths etc.

_1 sisu --help env

_1 sisu --help path

_1 sisu --help directory

2~ Directory Structure

Once installed, type:

_1  sisu --help env

or

_1  sisu -V

2~ Configuration File

The defaults can be changed via SiSU's configure file sisurc.yml which the program expects to find in ./_sisu ~/.sisu or /etc/sisu (searched in that order, stopping on the first one found)

2~ Markup

See man pages.

_1 man sisu

_1 man 8 sisu

Once installed there is some information on SiSU Markup in its help:

_1 sisu --help markup

and

_1 sisu --help headers

Sample marked up document are provided with the download tarball in the directory:

_1 ./data/doc/sisu/markup-samples/

These are installed on the system usually at:

_1 /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples/

More markup samples are available in the package sisu-markup-samples, which if installed should be available at:

_1 /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples-non-free/

Many more are available online off:

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html

2~ Additional Things

There is syntax support for some editors provided (together with a README file) in

_1 ./data/sisu/v5/conf/editor-syntax-etc

usually installed to:

_1 /usr/share/sisu/v5/conf/editor-syntax-etc

2~ License

License: GPL 3 or later see the copyright file in

_1 ./data/doc/sisu

usually installed to:

_1 /usr/share/doc/sisu

2~ SiSU Standard

SiSU uses:

_* Standard SiSU markup syntax,

_* Standard SiSU meta-markup syntax, and the

_* Standard SiSU object citation numbering and system

© Ralph Amissah 1997, current 2006 All Rights Reserved.

_* however note the License section

CHANGELOG

_1 ./CHANGELOG

and see

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/changelog.html

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/changelog_markup_samples.html

:C~ Extracts from man 8 sisu

1~howto_setup_post_installation Post Installation Setup

2~ Post Installation Setup - Quick start

After installation of sisu-complete, move to the document samples directory,

_1 cd /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples/samples

[this is not where you would normally work but provides sample documents for
testing, you may prefer instead to copy the contents of that directory to a local
directory before proceeding]

and in that directory, initialise the output directory with the command

_1 sisu -CC

then run:

_1 sisu -1 free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

or the same:

_1 sisu -NhwpoabxXyv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

look at output results, see the "sisu_manifest" page created for the document

for an overview of your current sisu setup, type:

_1 sisu --help env

or

_1 sisu -V

To generate a document from a remote url accessible location move to a writable directory, (create a work directory and cd into it) as the file will be downloaded there and e.g.

_1 sisu -1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/src/gpl.fsf.sst

_1 sisu -3 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/src/free_culture.lawrence_lessig.sst

examine source document, vim has syntax highlighting support

gvim free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

additional markup samples in

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html

it should also be possible to run sisu against sisupods (prepared zip files, created by running the command sisu -S [filename]), whether stored locally or remotely.

_1 sisu -3 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/pod/free_culture.lawrence_lessig.sst.zip

_1 sisu -3 --trust http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/pod/free_culture.lawrence_lessig.sst.zip

For help

_1 man sisu

_1 sisu --help

_1 sisu --help env
for the way sisu "sees/maps" your system

_1 sisu --help commands
for list of commands and so on

2~ Document markup directory

% B. Generate a (local) document from a markup/work directory.

Perhaps the easiest way to begin is to create a directory for sisu marked up documents within your home directory, and copy the file structure (and document samples) provided in the document sample directory:

_1 mkdir ~/sisu_test

_1 cd ~/sisu_test

_1 cp -a /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples/samples/* ~/sisu_test/.

better if you have installed sisu-markup-samples

_1 cp -a /usr/share/doc/sisu/markup-samples-non-free/samples/* ~/sisu_test/.

% !_ Tip:
% the markup syntax examples may be of interest
% 
% _1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sample/

!_ Tip:

_1 sisu -U [sisu markup filename]

should printout the different possible outputs and where sisu would place them.

!_ Tip:
if you want to toggle ansi color add

_1 c

to your flags.

3~ Configuration files

SiSU configuration file search path is:

_1 ./_sisu/sisurc.yaml

_1 ~/.sisu/sisurc.yaml

_1 /etc/sisu/sisurc.yaml

.\"%% Debian Installation Note

3~ Debian INSTALLATION Note

It is best you see

_1 http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#debian

for up the most up to date information.

notes taken from the Debian control file (end edited), gives an idea of additional packages that SiSU can make use of if available, (the use/requirement of some of which are interdependent for specific actions by SiSU):

Package: sisu

SiSU is a lightweight markup based, command line oriented, document structuring, publishing and search framework for document collections.

With minimal preparation of a plain-text, (UTF-8) file, using its native markup syntax in your text editor of choice, SiSU can generate various document formats (most of which share a common object numbering system for locating content), including plain text, HTML, XHTML, XML, OpenDocument text (ODF:ODT), EPUB, LaTeX, PDF files, and populate an SQL database with objects (roughly paragraph-sized chunks) so searches may be performed and matches returned with that degree of granularity: your search criteria is met by these documents and at these locations within each document. Object numbering is particularly suitable for "published" works (finalized texts as opposed to works that are frequently changed or updated) for which it provides a fixed means of reference of content. Document outputs also share semantic meta-data provided.

SiSU also provides concordance files, document content certificates and manifests of generated output.

A vim syntax highlighting file and an ftplugin with folds for sisu markup is provided, as are syntax highlighting files for kate, kwrite, gedit and diakonos. Vim 7 includes syntax highlighting for SiSU.

man pages, and interactive help are provided.

Dependencies for various features are taken care of in sisu related packages. The package sisu-complete installs the whole of SiSU.

Additional document markup samples are provided in the package sisu-markup-samples which is found in the non-free archive the licenses for the substantive content of the marked up documents provided is that provided by the author or original publisher.

Homepage: http://www.sisudoc.org

old homepage: http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu

3~ Document Resource Configuration

!_ sisu
resource configuration information is obtained from sources (where they exist):

_1 ~/.sisu/sisurc.yaml

_1 /etc/sisu/[sisu version]/sisurc.yaml

_1 sisu program defaults