ditanote

Simple Private Knowledge Base with DITA Markdown

Prerequisite

• DITA Open Toolkit

  • It will convert your markdown to html
  • Markdown support feature is maintained in GitHub - jelovirt/org.lwdita: LwDITA parser for DITA-OT
  • Java is also required by DITA Open Toolkit

• gitbook/setup.md at master · GitbookIO/gitbook · GitHub

  • It will create searchable knowledge base
  • npm is also required by gitbook

Setup

Before you start, you need to finish the following tasks:

1. Create .backstage/note.properties and add the followings. Also you need to replace <<PATH_TO_THIS_PROJECT>> with your environment.

   # Task
   args.gen.task.lbl = YES
   
   # Location of the copied .css file relative to the output:
   args.csspath = css
   
   # Copy css
   args.copycss = YES
   
   args.css = style.css
   args.cssroot = <<PATH_TO_THIS_PROJECT>>/ditanote/.backstage/
   

2. Create dir and put the markdown contents

   This template includes sample dir tech, but if you need to add another dir, you need to follow steps:

   1. Create a dir (e.g. food)

   2. Put a index.md into the dir with the following content.

      # Food {.topic}
      Food related topic
      

   3. Add the relative path to the above index.md into the note.ditamap under the project root dir

   4. Add the relative path to the above created dir into the ditadirs.txt under the .backstage dir

Commands

You can find the command in Makefile The flow is Create Map File (which files will be converted and displayed) -> Build Output using Map File.

You can put these output into your web server(e.g. nginx) for your private knowledge base.

html output

• Build html: make html

  The output will be put into out dir

The output is should be like the following:

book output

Before you start, you need to run sudo npm i -g gitbook-cli

• Build gitbook: make book

  The output will be put into out/_book dir

• Build gitbook and serve: make book-serve

The output is should be like the following:

Notes

• These links might be your help.

  • Language reference DITA langulage specs
  • GitHub - tkhm/ditalime: Python GUI App for DITA Entry Support It will help to create a markdown file with dita (lw-dita) format

• Gitbook CLI is under the maintainance mode and active development is stopped. This project is using it for gitbook based output creation. We need to pay attention to the Gitbook CLI's project status and npm repo's condition.