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diff --git a/doc/haunt.texi b/doc/haunt.texi index 5c65123..db898d1 100644 --- a/doc/haunt.texi +++ b/doc/haunt.texi @@ -277,9 +277,104 @@ programming interfaces. @node Command-line Interface @chapter Command-line Interface +@menu +* Invoking haunt build:: Build the website. +* Invoking haunt serve:: Serve the website over HTTP. +@end menu + +The Haunt command-line interface is composed of many subcommands. The +general syntax for all Haunt commands is: + +@example +haunt @var{subcommand} @var{options}@dots{} +@end example + +@node Invoking haunt build +@section Invoking @command{haunt build} + +The @command{haunt build} command realizes a Haunt site configuration +file by compiling web pages and copying static assets to the output +directory. For details on how to configure a Haunt site, +@pxref{Sites}. + +Example: + +@example +haunt build --config=haunt.scm +@end example + +@table @code + +@item --config=@var{configuration-file} +@itemx -c @var{configuration-file} +Load the Haunt site declaration from @var{configuration-file}. + +@end table + +@node Invoking haunt serve +@section Invoking @command{haunt serve} + +The @command{haunt serve} command allows one to quickly view a local +preview of the generated website before publishing the finished +product to a remote web server. When @command{haunt serve} runs, a +local HTTP server is spawned. Visit the server using a web browser to +inspect the results of the build. By default, the web server listens +on port 8080, so the URL to visit would be +@url{http://localhost:8080}. + +While developing, it is common to rebuild the site frequently to view +the results of incremental changes. Rather than manually running +@command{haunt build} (@ref{Invoking haunt build}) each time changes +are made, the @code{--watch} flag can be used to automatically rebuild +the site when a source file changes on disk. + +@table @code + +@item --config=@var{configuration-file} +@itemx -c @var{configuration-file} +Load the Haunt site declaration from @var{configuration-file}. + +@item --port=@var{port} +@itemx -p @var{port} + +Listen for HTTP requests on @var{port}. + +@item --watch +@itemx -w + +Automatically rebuild the site when source files change. + +@end table + @node Programming Interface @chapter Programming Interface +@menu +* Sites:: Description of the site and how to build it. +* Posts:: Articles, prose, blog posts, etc. +* Readers:: Post interpreters. +* Pages:: HTML/XML pages. +* Assets:: Images, stylesheets, etc. +@end menu + +Haunt is a fully-programmable system composed of several Guile Scheme +modules. This section documents the public API. + +@node Sites +@section Sites + +@node Posts +@section Posts + +@node Readers +@section Readers + +@node Pages +@section Pages + +@node Assets +@section Assets + @node Contributing @chapter Contributing |