.TH "sisu" "1" "2010-03-03" "2.0.0" "SiSU"
.SH NAME
sisu \- documents: markup, structuring, publishing in multiple standard formats, and search
.SH SYNOPSIS
sisu [\-abcDdFehIiMmNnopqRrSsTtUuVvwXxYyZz0\-9] [filename/wildcard]

.BR
sisu [\-Ddcv] [instruction] [filename/wildcard]

.BR
sisu [\-CcFLSVvW]

.BR
sisu \-\-v2 [operations]

.BR
sisu \-\-v1 [operations]
.SH
SISU \- MANUAL,
RALPH AMISSAH
.BR

.SH
WHAT IS SISU?
.BR

.SH
1. INTRODUCTION \- WHAT IS SISU?
.BR

.BR
.B SiSU
is a framework for document structuring, publishing (in multiple open
standard formats) and search, comprising of: (a) a lightweight document
structure and presentation markup syntax; and (b) an accompanying engine for
generating standard document format outputs from documents prepared in sisu
markup syntax, which is able to produce multiple standard outputs (including
the population of sql databases) that (can) share a common numbering system for
the citation of text within a document.

.BR
.B SiSU
is developed under an open source, software libre license (GPL3). Its use
case for development is work with medium to large document sets and cope with
evolving document formats/ representation technologies. Documents are prepared
once, and generated as need be to update the technical presentation or add
additional output formats. Various output formats (including search related
output) share a common mechanism for cross\-output\-format citation.

.BR
.B SiSU
both defines a markup syntax and provides an engine that produces open
standards format outputs from documents prepared with
.B SiSU
markup. From a single lightly prepared document sisu custom builds several
standard output formats which share a common (text object) numbering system for
citation of content within a document (that also has implications for search).
The sisu engine works with an abstraction of the document's structure and
content from which it is possible to generate different forms of representation
of the document. Significantly
.B SiSU
markup is more sparse than html and outputs which include html, EPUB, LaTeX,
landscape and portrait pdfs, Open Document Format (ODF), all of which can be
added to and updated.
.B SiSU
is also able to populate SQL type databases at an object level, which means
that searches can be made with that degree of granularity.

.BR
Source document preparation and output generation is a two step process: (i)
document source is prepared, that is, marked up in sisu markup syntax and (ii)
the desired output subsequently generated by running the sisu engine against
document source. Output representations if updated (in the sisu engine) can be
generated by re\-running the engine against the prepared source. Using
.B SiSU
markup applied to a document,
.B SiSU
custom builds (to take advantage of the strengths of different ways of
representing documents) various standard open output formats including plain
text, HTML, XHTML, XML, EPUB, OpenDocument, LaTeX or PDF files, and populate an
SQL database with objects[^1] (equating generally to paragraph\-sized chunks)
so searches may be performed and matches returned with that degree of
granularity ( e.g. your search criteria is met by these documents and at these
locations within each document). Document output formats share a common object
numbering system for locating content. This 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.

.BR
In preparing a
.B SiSU
document you optionally provide semantic information related to the document
in a document header, and in marking up the substantive text provide
information on the structure of the document, primarily indicating heading
levels and footnotes. You also provide information on basic text attributes
where used. The rest is automatic, sisu from this information custom builds[^2]
the different forms of output requested.

.BR
.B SiSU
works with an abstraction of the document based on its structure which is
comprised of its headings[^3] and objects[^4], which enables
.B SiSU
to represent the document in many different ways, and to take advantage of
the strengths of different ways of presenting documents. The objects are
numbered, and these numbers can be used to provide a common basis for citing
material within a document across the different output format types. This is
significant as page numbers are not well suited to the digital age, in web
publishing, changing a browser's default font or using a different browser can
mean that text will appear on a different page; and publishing in different
formats, html, landscape and portrait pdf etc. again page numbers are not
useful to cite text. Dealing with documents at an object level together with
object numbering also has implications for search that
.B SiSU
is able to take advantage of.

.BR
One of the challenges of maintaining documents is to keep them in a format that
allows use of them independently of proprietary platforms. Consider issues
related to dealing with legacy proprietary formats today and what guarantee you
have that old proprietary formats will remain (or can be read without
proprietary software/equipment) in 15 years time, or the way the way in which
html has evolved over its relatively short span of existence.
.B SiSU
provides the flexibility of producing documents in multiple non\-proprietary
open formats including html, pdf[^5] ODF,[^6] and EPUB.[^7] Whilst
.B SiSU
relies on software, the markup is uncomplicated and minimalistic which
guarantees that future engines can be written to run against it. It is also
easily converted to other formats, which means documents prepared in
.B SiSU
can be migrated to other document formats. Further security is provided by
the fact that the software itself,
.B SiSU
is available under GPL3 a licence that guarantees that the source code will
always be open, and free as in libre, which means that that code base can be
used, updated and further developed as required under the terms of its license.
Another challenge is to keep up with a moving target.
.B SiSU
permits new forms of output to be added as they become important, (Open
Document Format text was added in 2006 when it became an ISO standard for
office applications and the archival of documents), EPUB was introduced in
2009; and allows the technical representations existing output to be updated
(html has evolved and the related module has been updated repeatedly over the
years, presumably when the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c) finalises html 5
which is currently under development, the html module will again be updated
allowing all existing documents to be regenerated as html 5).

.BR
The document formats are written to the file\-system and available for indexing
by independent indexing tools, whether off the web like Google and Yahoo or on
the site like Lucene and Hyperestraier.

.BR
.B SiSU
also provides other features such as concordance files and document content
certificates, and the working against an abstraction of document structure has
further possibilities for the research and development of other document
representations, the availability of objects is useful for example for topic
maps and thesauri, together with the flexibility of
.B SiSU
offers great possibilities.

.BR
.B SiSU
is primarily for published works, which can take advantage of the citation
system to reliably reference its documents.
.B SiSU
works well in a complementary manner with such collaborative technologies as
Wikis, which can take advantage of and be used to discuss the substance of
content prepared in
.B SiSU
.

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu>

.SH
2. COMMANDS SUMMARY
.BR

.SH
2.1 DESCRIPTION

.BR
.B SiSU
.B SiSU
is a document publishing system, that from a simple single marked\-up
document, produces multiple of output formats including: plaintext, html,
xhtml, XML, epub, odt (odf text), LaTeX, pdf, info, and SQL (PostgreSQL and
SQLite), which share numbered text objects ("object citation numbering") and
the same document structure information. For more see:
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu>

.SH
2.2 DOCUMENT PROCESSING COMMAND FLAGS

.TP
.B \-a [filename/wildcard]
produces plaintext with Unix linefeeds and without markup, (object numbers
are omitted), has footnotes at end of each paragraph that contains them [ \ \-A
\ for \ equivalent \ dos \ (linefeed) \ output \ file] [see \ \-e \ for \
endnotes]. (Options include: \-\-endnotes for endnotes \-\-footnotes for
footnotes at the end of each paragraph \-\-unix for unix linefeed (default)
\-\-msdos for msdos linefeed)

.TP
.B \-b [filename/wildcard]
produces xhtml/XML output for browser viewing (sax parsing).

.TP
.B \-C [\-\-init\-site]
configure/initialise shared output directory files initialize shared output
directory (config files such as css and dtd files are not updated if they
already exist unless modifier is used). \-C \-\-init\-site configure/initialise
site more extensive than \-C on its own, shared output directory files/force
update, existing shared output config files such as css and dtd files are
updated if this modifier is used.

.TP
.B \-CC
configure/initialise shared output directory files initialize shared output
directory (config files such as css and dtd files are not updated if they
already exist unless modifier is used). The equivalent of: \-C \-\-init\-site
configure/initialise site, more extensive than \-C on its own, shared output
directory files/force update, existing shared output config files such as css
and dtd files are updated if \-CC is used.

.TP
.B \-c [filename/wildcard]
screen toggle ansi screen colour on or off depending on default set (unless
\-c flag is used: if sisurc colour default is set to 'true', output to screen
will be with colour, if sisurc colour default is set to 'false' or is undefined
screen output will be without colour).

.TP
.B \-D [instruction] [filename]
database postgresql ( \-\-pgsql may be used instead) possible instructions,
include: \-\-createdb; \-\-create; \-\-dropall; \-\-import [filename];
\-\-update [filename]; \-\-remove [filename]; see database section below.

.TP
.B \-d [\-\-db\-[database \ type \ (sqlite|pg)]] \-\-[instruction] [filename]
database type default set to sqlite, (for which \-\-sqlite may be used
instead) or to specify another database \-\-db\-[pgsql, \ sqlite] (however see
\-D) possible instructions include: \-\-createdb; \-\-create; \-\-dropall;
\-\-import [filename]; \-\-update [filename]; \-\-remove [filename]; see
database section below.

.TP
.B \-e [filename/wildcard]
produces an epub document, [sisu \ version \ 2 \ only] (filename.epub)

.TP
.B \-F [\-\-webserv=webrick]
generate examples of (naive) cgi search form for sqlite and pgsql depends on
your already having used sisu to populate an sqlite and/or pgsql database, (the
sqlite version scans the output directories for existing sisu_sqlite databases,
so it is first necessary to create them, before generating the search form) see
\-d \-D and the database section below. If the optional parameter
\-\-webserv=webrick is passed, the cgi examples created will be set up to use
the default port set for use by the webrick server, (otherwise the port is left
blank and the system setting used, usually 80). The samples are dumped in the
present work directory which must be writable, (with screen instructions given
that they be copied to the cgi\-bin directory). \-Fv (in addition to the above)
provides some information on setting up hyperestraier for sisu

.TP
.B \-h [filename/wildcard]
produces html output, segmented text with table of contents (toc.html and
index.html) and the document in a single file (scroll.html)

.TP
.B \-I [filename/wildcard]
produces texinfo and info file, (view with pinfo).

.TP
.B \-i [filename/wildcard]
produces man page of file, not suitable for all outputs.

.TP
.B \-L
prints license information.

.TP
.B \-M [filename/wildcard/url]
maintenance mode files created for processing preserved and their locations
indicated. (also see \-V)

.TP
.B \-m [filename/wildcard/url]
assumed for most other flags, creates new intermediate files for processing
(document abstraction) that is used in all subsequent processing of other
output. This step is assumed for most processing flags. To skip it see \-n

.TP
.B \-N [filename/wildcard/url]
document digest or document content certificate ( DCC ) as md5 digest tree of
the document: the digest for the document, and digests for each object
contained within the document (together with information on software versions
that produced it) (digest.txt). \-NV for verbose digest output to screen.

.TP
.B \-n [filename/wildcard/url]
skip the creation of intermediate processing files (document abstraction) if
they already exist, this skips the equivalent of \-m which is otherwise assumed
by most processing flags.

.TP
.B \-o [filename/wildcard/url]
output basic document in opendocument file format (opendocument.odt).

.TP
.B \-p [filename/wildcard]
produces LaTeX pdf (portrait.pdf & landscape.pdf). Default paper size is set
in config file, or document header, or provided with additional command line
parameter, e.g. \-\-papersize\-a4 preset sizes include: 'A4', U.S. 'letter' and
'legal' and book sizes 'A5' and 'B5' (system defaults to A4).

.TP
.B \-q [filename/wildcard]
quiet less output to screen.

.TP
.B \-R [filename/wildcard]
copies sisu output files to remote host using rsync. This requires that
sisurc.yml has been provided with information on hostname and username, and
that you have your "keys" and ssh agent in place. Note the behavior of rsync
different if \-R is used with other flags from if used alone. Alone the rsync
\-\-delete parameter is sent, useful for cleaning the remote directory (when
\-R is used together with other flags, it is not). Also see \-r

.TP
.B \-r [filename/wildcard]
copies sisu output files to remote host using scp. This requires that
sisurc.yml has been provided with information on hostname and username, and
that you have your "keys" and ssh agent in place. Also see \-R

.TP
.B \-S
produces a sisupod a zipped sisu directory of markup files including sisu
markup source files and the directories local configuration file, images and
skins. Note: this only includes the configuration files or skins contained in
 \./_sisu not those in ~/.sisu \-S [filename/wildcard] option. Note: (this
option is tested only with zsh).

.TP
.B \-S [filename/wildcard]
produces a zipped file of the prepared document specified along with
associated images, by default named sisupod.zip they may alternatively be named
with the filename extension \.ssp This provides a quick way of gathering the
relevant parts of a sisu document which can then for example be emailed. A
sisupod includes sisu markup source file, (along with associated documents if a
master file, or available in multilingual versions), together with related
images and skin.
.B SiSU
commands can be run directly against a sisupod contained in a local
directory, or provided as a url on a remote site. As there is a security issue
with skins provided by other users, they are not applied unless the flag
\-\-trust or \-\-trusted is added to the command instruction, it is recommended
that file that are not your own are treated as untrusted. The directory
structure of the unzipped file is understood by sisu, and sisu commands can be
run within it. Note: if you wish to send multiple files, it quickly becomes
more space efficient to zip the sisu markup directory, rather than the
individual files for sending). See the \-S option without [filename/wildcard].

.TP
.B \-s [filename/wildcard]
copies sisu markup file to output directory.

.TP
.B \-t [filename/wildcard \ (*.termsheet.rb)]
standard form document builder, preprocessing feature

.TP
.B \-U [filename/wildcard]
prints url output list/map for the available processing flags options and
resulting files that could be requested, (can be used to get a list of
processing options in relation to a file, together with information on the
output that would be produced), \-u provides url output mapping for those flags
requested for processing. The default assumes sisu_webrick is running and
provides webrick url mappings where appropriate, but these can be switched to
file system paths in sisurc.yml

.TP
.B \-u [filename/wildcard]
provides url mapping of output files for the flags requested for processing,
also see \-U

.TP
.B \-V
on its own, provides
.B SiSU
version and environment information (sisu \-\-help env)

.TP
.B \-V [filename/wildcard]
even more verbose than the \-v flag. (also see \-M)

.TP
.B \-v
on its own, provides
.B SiSU
version information

.TP
.B \-v [filename/wildcard]
provides verbose output of what is being generated, where output is placed
(and error messages if any), as with \-u flag provides a url mapping of files
created for each of the processing flag requests. See also \-V

.TP
.B \-W
starts ruby's webrick webserver points at sisu output directories, the
default port is set to 8081 and can be changed in the resource configuration
files. [tip: \ the \ webrick \ server \ requires \ link \ suffixes, \ so \ html
\ output \ should \ be \ created \ using \ the \ \-h \ option \ rather \ than \
\-H \ ; \ also, \ note \ \-F \ webrick \ ].

.TP
.B \-w [filename/wildcard]
produces concordance (wordmap) a rudimentary index of all the words in a
document. (Concordance files are not generated for documents of over 260,000
words unless this limit is increased in the file sisurc.yml)

.TP
.B \-X [filename/wildcard]
produces XML output with deep document structure, in the nature of dom.

.TP
.B \-x [filename/wildcard]
produces XML output shallow structure (sax parsing).

.TP
.B \-Y [filename/wildcard]
produces a short sitemap entry for the document, based on html output and the
sisu_manifest. \-\-sitemaps generates/updates the sitemap index of existing
sitemaps. (Experimental, [g,y,m \ announcement \ this \ week])

.TP
.B \-y [filename/wildcard]
produces an html summary of output generated (hyperlinked to content) and
document specific metadata (sisu_manifest.html). This step is assumed for most
processing flags.

.TP
.B \-Z [filename/wildcard]
Zap, if used with other processing flags deletes output files of the type
about to be processed, prior to processing. If \-Z is used as the lone
processing related flag (or in conjunction with a combination of \-[mMvVq]),
will remove the related document output directory.

.TP
.B \-z [filename/wildcard]
produces php (zend) [this \ feature \ is \ disabled \ for \ the \ time \
being]

.TP
.B \-\-harvest *.ss[tm]
makes two lists of sisu output based on the sisu markup documents in a
directory: list of author and authors works (year and titles), and; list by
topic with titles and author. Makes use of header metadata fields (author,
title, date, topic_register). Can be used with maintenance (\-M) and remote
placement (\-R) flags.

.SH
3. COMMAND LINE MODIFIERS
.BR

.TP
.B \-\-no\-ocn
[with \ \-h \ \-H \ or \ \-p] switches off object citation numbering. Produce
output without identifying numbers in margins of html or LaTeX/pdf output.

.TP
.B \-\-no\-annotate
strips output text of editor endnotes[^*1] denoted by asterisk or dagger/plus
sign

.TP
.B \-\-no\-asterisk
strips output text of editor endnotes[^*2] denoted by asterisk sign

.TP
.B \-\-no\-dagger
strips output text of editor endnotes[^+1] denoted by dagger/plus sign

.SH
4. DATABASE COMMANDS
.BR

.BR
dbi \- database interface

.BR
\-D or \-\-pgsql set for postgresql \-d or \-\-sqlite default set for sqlite
\-d is modifiable with \-\-db=[database \ type \ (pgsql \ or \ sqlite)]

.TP
.B \-Dv \-\-createall
initial step, creates required relations (tables, indexes) in existing
postgresql database (a database should be created manually and given the same
name as working directory, as requested) (rb.dbi) [ \ \-dv \ \-\-createall \
sqlite \ equivalent] it may be necessary to run sisu \-Dv \-\-createdb
initially NOTE: at the present time for postgresql it may be necessary to
manually create the database. The command would be 'createdb [database \ name]'
where database name would be SiSU_[present \ working \ directory \ name \
(without \ path)]. Please use only alphanumerics and underscores.

.TP
.B \-Dv \-\-import
[filename/wildcard] imports data specified to postgresql db (rb.dbi) [ \ \-dv
\ \-\-import \ sqlite \ equivalent]

.TP
.B \-Dv \-\-update
[filename/wildcard] updates/imports specified data to postgresql db (rb.dbi)
[ \ \-dv \ \-\-update \ sqlite \ equivalent]

.TP
.B \-D \-\-remove
[filename/wildcard] removes specified data to postgresql db (rb.dbi) [ \ \-d
\ \-\-remove \ sqlite \ equivalent]

.TP
.B \-D \-\-dropall
kills data" and drops (postgresql or sqlite) db, tables & indexes [ \ \-d \
\-\-dropall \ sqlite \ equivalent]

.BR
The v in e.g. \-Dv is for verbose output.

.SH
5. SHORTCUTS, SHORTHAND FOR MULTIPLE FLAGS
.BR

.TP
.B \-\-update [filename/wildcard]
Checks existing file output and runs the flags required to update this
output. This means that if only html and pdf output was requested on previous
runs, only the \-hp files will be applied, and only these will be generated
this time, together with the summary. This can be very convenient, if you offer
different outputs of different files, and just want to do the same again.

.TP
.B \-0 to \-5 [filename \ or \ wildcard]
Default shorthand mappings (note that the defaults can be changed/configured
in the sisurc.yml file):

.TP
.B \-0
\-mNhwpAobxXyYv [this \ is \ the \ default \ action \ run \ when \ no \
options \ are \ give, \ i.e. \ on \ 'sisu \ [filename]']

.TP
.B \-1
\-mhewpy

.TP
.B \-2
\-mhewpaoy

.TP
.B \-3
\-mhewpAobxXyY

.TP
.B \-4
\-mhewpAobxXDyY \-\-import

.TP
.B \-5
\-mhewpAobxXDyY \-\-update

.BR
add \-v for verbose mode and \-c for color, e.g. sisu \-2vc [filename \ or \
wildcard]

.BR
consider \-u for appended url info or \-v for verbose output

.SH
5.1 COMMAND LINE WITH FLAGS \- BATCH PROCESSING

.BR
In the data directory run sisu \-mh filename or wildcard eg. "sisu \-h
cisg.sst" or "sisu \-h *.{sst,ssm}" to produce html version of all documents.

.BR
Running sisu (alone without any flags, filenames or wildcards) brings up the
interactive help, as does any sisu command that is not recognised. Enter to
escape.

.SH
6. HELP
.BR

.SH
6.1 SISU MANUAL

.BR
The most up to date information on sisu should be contained in the sisu_manual,
available at:

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_manual/>

.BR
The manual can be generated from source, found respectively, either within the
.B SiSU
tarball or installed locally at:

.BR
  ./data/doc/sisu/v2/sisu_markup_samples/sisu_manual/

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/sisu_markup_samples/sisu_manual/

.BR
move to the respective directory and type e.g.:

.BR
  sisu sisu_manual.ssm

.SH
6.2 SISU MAN PAGES

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

.BR
  man sisu

.BR
  man sisu_markup

.BR
  man sisu_commands

.BR
Most
.B SiSU
man pages are generated directly from sisu documents that are used to prepare
the sisu manual, the sources files for which are located within the
.B SiSU
tarball at:

.BR
  ./data/doc/sisu/v2/sisu_markup_samples/sisu_manual/

.BR
Once installed, directory equivalent to:

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_manual/

.BR
Available man pages are converted back to html using man2html:

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/

.BR
  ./data/doc/sisu/v2/html/

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

.BR
* various sisu man pages <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/> [^8]

.BR
* sisu.1 <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1.html> [^9]

.SH
6.3 SISU BUILT\-IN INTERACTIVE HELP

.BR
This is particularly useful for getting the current sisu setup/environment
information:

.BR
  sisu \-\-help

.BR
  sisu \-\-help [subject]

.BR
    sisu \-\-help commands

.BR
    sisu \-\-help markup

.BR
    sisu \-\-help env [for \ feedback \ on \ the \ way \ your \ system \ is \
    setup \ with \ regard \ to \ sisu]

.BR
  sisu \-V [environment \ information, \ same \ as \ above \ command]

.BR
  sisu (on its own provides version and some help information)

.BR
Apart from real\-time information on your current configuration the
.B SiSU
manual and man pages are likely to contain more up\-to\-date information than
the sisu interactive help (for example on commands and markup).

.BR
NOTE: Running the command sisu (alone without any flags, filenames or
wildcards) brings up the interactive help, as does any sisu command that is not
recognised. Enter to escape.

.SH
6.4 HELP SOURCES

.BR
For lists of alternative help sources, see:

.BR
.B man page

.BR
  man sisu_help_sources

.BR
.B man2html

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu.1.html

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_help_sources/index.html>

.SH
7. INTRODUCTION TO SISU MARKUP[^10]
.BR

.SH
7.1 SUMMARY

.BR
.B SiSU
source documents are plaintext (UTF\-8)[^11] files

.BR
All paragraphs are separated by an empty line.

.BR
Markup is comprised of:

.BR
* at the top of a document, the document header made up of semantic meta\-data
about the document and if desired additional processing instructions (such an
instruction to automatically number headings from a particular level down)

.BR
* followed by the prepared substantive text of which the most important single
characteristic is the markup of different heading levels, which define the
primary outline of the document structure. Markup of substantive text includes:

.BR
  * heading levels defines document structure

.BR
  * text basic attributes, italics, bold etc.

.BR
  * grouped text (objects), which are to be treated differently, such as code
  blocks or poems.

.BR
  * footnotes/endnotes

.BR
  * linked text and images

.BR
  * paragraph actions, such as indent, bulleted, numbered\-lists, etc.

.BR
Some interactive help on markup is available, by typing sisu and selecting
markup or sisu \-\-help markup

.BR
To check the markup in a file:

.BR
  sisu \-\-identify [filename].sst

.BR
For brief descriptive summary of markup history

.BR
  sisu \-\-query\-history

.BR
or if for a particular version:

.BR
  sisu \-\-query\-0.38

.SH
7.2 MARKUP EXAMPLES

.SH
7.2.1 ONLINE

.BR
Online markup examples are available together with the respective outputs
produced from <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html> or from
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_examples/>

.BR
There is of course this document, which provides a cursory overview of sisu
markup and the respective output produced:
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_markup/>

.BR
Some example marked up files are available as html with syntax highlighting for
viewing: <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sample/syntax>

.BR
an alternative presentation of markup syntax:
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sample/on_markup.txt>

.SH
7.2.2 INSTALLED

.BR
With
.B SiSU
installed sample skins may be found in:
/usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/dfsg (or equivalent directory) and if
sisu\-markup\-samples is installed also under:
/usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/non\-free

.SH
8. MARKUP OF HEADERS
.BR

.BR
Headers contain either: semantic meta\-data about a document, which can be used
by any output module of the program, or; processing instructions.

.BR
Note: the first line of a document may include information on the markup
version used in the form of a comment. Comments are a percentage mark at the
start of a paragraph (and as the first character in a line of text) followed by
a space and the comment:


.nf
  % this would be a comment
.fi

.SH
8.1 SAMPLE HEADER

.BR
This current document is loaded by a master document that has a header similar
to this one:


.nf
  % SiSU master 2.0
  @title: SiSU
   :subtitle: Manual
  @creator: :author: Amissah, Ralph
  @rights: Copyright (C) Ralph Amissah 2007, License GPL 3
  @classify:
   :type: information
   :topic_register: SiSU:manual;electronic documents:SiSU:manual
   :subject: ebook, epublishing, electronic book, electronic publishing,
      electronic document, electronic citation, data structure,
       citation systems, search
  % used_by: manual
  @date: :published: 2008\-05\-22
   :created: 2002\-08\-28
   :issued: 2002\-08\-28
   :available: 2002\-08\-28
   :modified: 2010\-03\-03
  @make: :num_top: 1
   :breaks: new=C; break=1
   :skin: skin_sisu_manual
   :bold: /Gnu|Debian|Ruby|SiSU/
   :manpage: name=sisu \- documents: markup, structuring, publishing
       in multiple standard formats, and search;
       synopsis=sisu \ [\-abcDdeFhIiMmNnopqRrSsTtUuVvwXxYyZz0\-9] \ [filename/wildcard \ ]
       . sisu \ [\-Ddcv] \ [instruction]
       . sisu \ [\-CcFLSVvW]
       . sisu \-\-v2 \ [operations]
       . sisu \-\-v1 \ [operations]
  @links: { SiSU Manual }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_manual/
    { Book Samples and Markup Examples }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html
    { SiSU @ Wikipedia }http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiSU
    { SiSU @ Freshmeat }http://freshmeat.net/projects/sisu/
    { SiSU @ Ruby Application Archive }http://raa.ruby\-lang.org/project/sisu/
    { SiSU @ Debian }http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sisu.html
    { SiSU Download }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html
    { SiSU Changelog }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/changelog.html
    { SiSU help }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_manual/sisu_help/
    { SiSU help sources }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_manual/sisu_help_sources/
.fi

.SH
8.2 AVAILABLE HEADERS

.BR
Header tags appear at the beginning of a document and provide meta information
on the document (such as the Dublin Core), or information as to how the
document as a whole is to be processed. All header instructions take either the
form @headername: or 0~headername. All Dublin Core meta tags are available

.BR
.B @indentifier:
information or instructions

.BR
where the "identifier" is a tag recognised by the program, and the
"information" or "instructions" belong to the tag/indentifier specified

.BR
Note: a header where used should only be used once; all headers apart from
@title: are optional; the @structure: header is used to describe document
structure, and can be useful to know.

.BR
This is a sample header


.nf
  % SiSU 2.0 \ [declared \ file\-type \ identifier \ with \ markup \ version]
.fi

.nf
  @title: \ [title \ text] \ [this \ header \ is \ the \ only \ one \ that \ is \ mandatory]
    :subtitle: \ [subtitle \ if \ any]
    :language: English
.fi

.nf
  @creator: :author: \ [Lastname, \ First \ names]
   :illustrator: \ [Lastname, \ First \ names]
   :translator: \ [Lastname, \ First \ names]
   :prepared_by: \ [Lastname, \ First \ names]
.fi

.nf
  @date: :published: \ [year \ or \ yyyy\-mm\-dd]
   :created: \ [year \ or \ yyyy\-mm\-dd]
   :issued: \ [year \ or \ yyyy\-mm\-dd]
   :available: \ [year \ or \ yyyy\-mm\-dd]
   :modified: \ [year \ or \ yyyy\-mm\-dd]
   :valid: \ [year \ or \ yyyy\-mm\-dd]
   :added_to_site: \ [year \ or \ yyyy\-mm\-dd]
   :translated: \ [year \ or \ yyyy\-mm\-dd]
.fi

.nf
  @rights: :copyright: Copyright (C) \ [Year \ and \ Holder]
   :license: \ [Use \ License \ granted]
   :text: \ [Year \ and \ Holder]
   :translation: \ [Name, \ Year]
   :illustrations: \ [Name, \ Year]
.fi

.nf
  @classify:
   :topic_register: SiSU:markup sample:book;book:novel:fantasy
   :type:
   :subject:
   :description:
   :keywords:
   :abstract:
   :isbn: \ [ISBN]
   :loc: \ [Library \ of \ Congress \ classification]
   :dewey: \ [Dewey \ classification
  :pg: \ [Project \ Gutenberg \ text \ number]
.fi

.nf
  @links: { SiSU }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/
    { FSF }http://www.fsf.org
.fi

.nf
  @make:
   :skin: skin_name
     [skins change default settings related to the appearance of documents generated]
   :num_top: 1
   :headings: \ [text \ to \ match \ for \ each \ level
     (e.g. PART; Chapter; Section; Article;
      or another: none; BOOK|FIRST|SECOND; none; CHAPTER;)
   :breaks: new=:C; break=1
   :promo: sisu, ruby, sisu_search_libre, open_society
   :bold: [regular expression of words/phrases to be made bold]
   :italics: \ [regular \ expression \ of \ words/phrases \ to \ italicise]
.fi

.nf
  @original: :language: \ [language]
.fi

.nf
  @notes: :comment:
   :prefix: \ [prefix \ is \ placed \ just \ after \ table \ of \ contents]
.fi

.SH
9. MARKUP OF SUBSTANTIVE TEXT
.BR

.SH
9.1 HEADING LEVELS

.BR
Heading levels are :A~ ,:B~ ,:C~ ,1~ ,2~ ,3~ \... :A \- :C being part / section
headings, followed by other heading levels, and 1 \-6 being headings followed
by substantive text or sub\-headings. :A~ usually the title :A~? conditional
level 1 heading (used where a stand\-alone document may be imported into
another)

.BR
.B :A~ [heading \ text]
Top level heading [this \ usually \ has \ similar \ content \ to \ the \
title \ @title: \ ] NOTE: the heading levels described here are in 0.38
notation, see heading

.BR
.B :B~ [heading \ text]
Second level heading [this \ is \ a \ heading \ level \ divider]

.BR
.B :C~ [heading \ text]
Third level heading [this \ is \ a \ heading \ level \ divider]

.BR
.B 1~ [heading \ text]
Top level heading preceding substantive text of document or sub\-heading 2,
the heading level that would normally be marked 1. or 2. or 3. etc. in a
document, and the level on which sisu by default would break html output into
named segments, names are provided automatically if none are given (a number),
otherwise takes the form 1~my_filename_for_this_segment

.BR
.B 2~ [heading \ text]
Second level heading preceding substantive text of document or sub\-heading
3, the heading level that would normally be marked 1.1 or 1.2 or 1.3 or 2.1
etc. in a document.

.BR
.B 3~ [heading \ text]
Third level heading preceding substantive text of document, that would
normally be marked 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 or 1.2.1 or 2.1.1 etc. in a document


.nf
  1~filename level 1 heading,
  % the primary division such as Chapter that is followed by substantive text,
  % and may be further subdivided (this is the level on which by default html
  % segments are made)
.fi

.SH
9.2 FONT ATTRIBUTES

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  normal text !{emphasis}! *{bold text}* _{underscore}_ /{italics}/ \"{citation}\" ^{superscript}^ ,{subscript}, +{inserted text}+
.BR
  normal text
.BR
  !{emphasis}!
.BR
  *{bold text}*
.BR
  _{underscore}_
.BR
  /{italics}/
.BR
  \"{citation}\"
.BR
  ^{superscript}^
.BR
  ,{subscript},
.BR
  +{inserted text}+
.BR
  \-{strikethrough}\-
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
normal text
.B emphasis
.B bold text
.I underscore
.I italics
"citation" ^superscript^ [subscript] ++inserted text++ \-\-strikethrough\-\-

.BR
normal text

.BR
.B emphasis

.BR
.B bold text

.BR
.I underscore

.BR
.I italics

.BR
"citation"

.BR
^superscript^

.BR
[subscript]

.BR
++inserted text++

.BR
\-\-strikethrough\-\-

.SH
9.3 INDENTATION AND BULLETS

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  ordinary paragraph
.BR
  _1 indent paragraph one step
.BR
  _2 indent paragraph two steps
.BR
  _9 indent paragraph nine steps
.fi


.B resulting output:

.BR
ordinary paragraph

.BR
  indent paragraph one step

.BR
    indent paragraph two steps

.BR
                  indent paragraph nine steps

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  _* bullet text
.BR
  _1* bullet text, first indent
.BR
  _2* bullet text, two step indent
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
* bullet text

.BR
  * bullet text, first indent

.BR
    * bullet text, two step indent

.BR
Numbered List (not to be confused with headings/titles, (document structure))

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  # numbered list                numbered list 1., 2., 3, etc.
.BR
  _# numbered list numbered list indented a., b., c., d., etc.
.fi

.SH
9.4 FOOTNOTES / ENDNOTES

.BR
Footnotes and endnotes not distinguished in markup. They are automatically
numbered. Depending on the output file format (html, EPUB, odf, pdf etc.), the
document output selected will have either footnotes or endnotes.

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  ~{ a footnote or endnote }~
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
[^12]

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  normal text~{ self contained endnote marker & endnote in one }~ continues
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
normal text[^13] continues

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  normal text ~{* unnumbered asterisk footnote/endnote, insert multiple asterisks if required }~ continues
.BR
  normal text ~{** another unnumbered asterisk footnote/endnote }~ continues
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
normal text [^*] continues

.BR
normal text [^**] continues

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  normal text ~[* \ editors \ notes, \ numbered \ asterisk \ footnote/endnote \ series \ ]~ continues
.BR
  normal text ~[+ \ editors \ notes, \ numbered \ asterisk \ footnote/endnote \ series \ ]~ continues
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
normal text [^*3] continues

.BR
normal text [^+2] continues


.BR
.B Alternative endnote pair notation for footnotes/endnotes:


.nf
  % note the endnote marker \"~^\"
.BR
  normal text~^ continues
.BR
  ^~ endnote text following the paragraph in which the marker occurs
.fi

.BR
the standard and pair notation cannot be mixed in the same document

.SH
9.5 LINKS

.SH
9.5.1 NAKED URLS WITHIN TEXT, DEALING WITH URLS

.BR
urls are found within text and marked up automatically. A url within text is
automatically hyperlinked to itself and by default decorated with angled
braces, unless they are contained within a code block (in which case they are
passed as normal text), or escaped by a preceding underscore (in which case the
decoration is omitted).

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  normal text http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu continues
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
normal text <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu> continues

.BR
An escaped url without decoration

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  normal text _http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu continues
  deb http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non\-free
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
normal text <_http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu> continues

.BR
deb <_http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive> unstable main non\-free

.BR
where a code block is used there is neither decoration nor hyperlinking, code
blocks are discussed later in this document

.BR
.B resulting output:


.nf
  deb http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non\-free
.BR
  deb\-src http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non\-free
.fi

.BR
To link text or an image to a url the markup is as follows

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  about { SiSU }http://url.org markup
.fi

.SH
9.5.2 LINKING TEXT

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
about SiSU <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/> markup

.BR
A shortcut notation is available so the url link may also be provided
automatically as a footnote

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  about {~^ SiSU }http://url.org markup
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
aboutSiSU <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/> [^14] markup

.SH
9.5.3 LINKING IMAGES

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  { tux.png 64x80 }image
.BR
  % various url linked images
.BR
  {tux.png 64x80 \"a better way\" }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/
.BR
.BR
  {GnuDebianLinuxRubyBetterWay.png 100x101 \"Way Better \- with Gnu/Linux, Debian and Ruby\" }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/
.BR
.BR
  {~^ ruby_logo.png \"Ruby\" }http://www.ruby\-lang.org/en/
.BR
.BR
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
[ tux.png ]

.BR
tux.png 64x80 \"Gnu/Linux \- a better way\" <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/>

.BR
[ \ ruby_logo \ (png \ missing) \ ] [^15]

.BR
GnuDebianLinuxRubyBetterWay.png 100x101 \"Way Better \- with Gnu/Linux, Debian
and Ruby\" <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/>

.BR
.B linked url footnote shortcut


.nf
  {~^ \ [text \ to \ link] }http://url.org
  % maps to: { \ [text \ to \ link] }http://url.org ~{ http://url.org }~
  % which produces hyper\-linked text within a document/paragraph,
  with an endnote providing the url for the text location used in the hyperlink
.fi


.nf
  text marker *~name
.fi

.BR
note at a heading level the same is automatically achieved by providing names
to headings 1, 2 and 3 i.e. 2~[name] and 3~[name] or in the case of
auto\-heading numbering, without further intervention.

.SH
9.6 GROUPED TEXT

.SH
9.6.1 TABLES

.BR
Tables may be prepared in two either of two forms

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  table{ c3; 40; 30; 30;
  This is a table
  this would become column two of row one
  column three of row one is here
  And here begins another row
  column two of row two
  column three of row two, and so on
  }table
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

 \ [table \ omitted, \ see \ other \ document \ formats]

.BR
a second form may be easier to work with in cases where there is not much
information in each column

.BR
.B markup example:
[^16]


.nf
  !_ Table 3.1: Contributors to Wikipedia, January 2001 \- June 2005
  {table~h 24; 12; 12; 12; 12; 12; 12;}
                                  |Jan. 2001|Jan. 2002|Jan. 2003|Jan. 2004|July 2004|June 2006
  Contributors*                   |       10|      472|    2,188|    9,653|   25,011|   48,721
  Active contributors**           |        9|      212|      846|    3,228|    8,442|   16,945
  Very active contributors***     |        0|       31|      190|      692|    1,639|    3,016
  No. of English language articles|       25|   16,000|  101,000|  190,000|  320,000|  630,000
  No. of articles, all languages  |       25|   19,000|  138,000|  490,000|  862,000|1,600,000
  \\* Contributed at least ten times; \\** at least 5 times in last month; \\*\** more than 100 times in last month.
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

.BR
.B Table 3.1: Contributors to Wikipedia, January 2001 \- June 2005

 \ [table \ omitted, \ see \ other \ document \ formats]

.BR
* Contributed at least ten times; ** at least 5 times in last month; *** more
than 100 times in last month.

.SH
9.6.2 POEM

.BR
.B basic markup:


.nf
  poem{
    Your poem here
  }poem
  Each verse in a poem is given a separate object number.
.fi

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  poem{
                      \`Fury said to a
                     mouse, That he
                   met in the
                 house,
              \"Let us
                both go to
                  law:  I will
                    prosecute
                      YOU.  \-\-Come,
                         I\'ll take no
                          denial; We
                       must have a
                   trial:  For
                really this
             morning I\'ve
            nothing
           to do.\"
             Said the
               mouse to the
                 cur, \"Such
                   a trial,
                     dear Sir,
                           With
                       no jury
                    or judge,
                  would be
                wasting
               our
                breath.\"
                 \"I\'ll be
                   judge, I\'ll
                     be jury,\"
                           Said
                      cunning
                        old Fury:
                       \"I\'ll
                        try the
                           whole
                            cause,
                               and
                          condemn
                         you
                        to
                         death.\"\'
  }poem
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

                    \'Fury said to a
.BR
                   mouse, That he
.BR
                 met in the
.BR
               house,
.BR
            \"Let us
.BR
              both go to
.BR
                law:  I will
.BR
                  prosecute
.BR
                    YOU.  \-\-Come,
.BR
                       I\'ll take no
.BR
                        denial; We
.BR
                     must have a
.BR
                 trial:  For
.BR
              really this
.BR
           morning I\'ve
.BR
          nothing
.BR
         to do.\"
.BR
           Said the
.BR
             mouse to the
.BR
               cur, \"Such
.BR
                 a trial,
.BR
                   dear Sir,
.BR
                         With
.BR
                     no jury
.BR
                  or judge,
.BR
                would be
.BR
              wasting
.BR
             our
.BR
              breath.\"
.BR
               \"I\'ll be
.BR
                 judge, I\'ll
.BR
                   be jury,\"
.BR
                         Said
.BR
                    cunning
.BR
                      old Fury:
.BR
                     \"I\'ll
.BR
                      try the
.BR
                         whole
.BR
                          cause,
.BR
                             and
.BR
                        condemn
.BR
                       you
.BR
                      to
.BR
                       death.\"\'
.BR

.SH
9.6.3 GROUP

.BR
.B basic markup:


.nf
  group{
.BR
    Your grouped text here
.BR
  }group
.BR
  A group is treated as an object and given a single object number.
.fi

.BR
.B markup example:


.nf
  group{
.BR
                      \'Fury said to a
                     mouse, That he
                   met in the
                 house,
              \"Let us
                both go to
                  law:  I will
                    prosecute
                      YOU.  \-\-Come,
                         I\'ll take no
                          denial; We
                       must have a
                   trial:  For
                really this
             morning I\'ve
            nothing
           to do.\"
             Said the
               mouse to the
                 cur, \"Such
                   a trial,
                     dear Sir,
                           With
                       no jury
                    or judge,
                  would be
                wasting
               our
                breath.\"
                 \"I\'ll be
                   judge, I\'ll
                     be jury,\"
                           Said
                      cunning
                        old Fury:
                       \"I\'ll
                        try the
                           whole
                            cause,
                               and
                          condemn
                         you
                        to
                         death.\"\'
  }group
.fi

.BR
.B resulting output:

                    \'Fury said to a
.BR
                   mouse, That he
.BR
                 met in the
.BR
               house,
.BR
            \"Let us
.BR
              both go to
.BR
                law:  I will
.BR
                  prosecute
.BR
                    YOU.  \-\-Come,
.BR
                       I\'ll take no
.BR
                        denial; We
.BR
                     must have a
.BR
                 trial:  For
.BR
              really this
.BR
           morning I\'ve
.BR
          nothing
.BR
         to do.\"
.BR
           Said the
.BR
             mouse to the
.BR
               cur, \"Such
.BR
                 a trial,
.BR
                   dear Sir,
.BR
                         With
.BR
                     no jury
.BR
                  or judge,
.BR
                would be
.BR
              wasting
.BR
             our
.BR
              breath.\"
.BR
               \"I\'ll be
.BR
                 judge, I\'ll
.BR
                   be jury,\"
.BR
                         Said
.BR
                    cunning
.BR
                      old Fury:
.BR
                     \"I\'ll
.BR
                      try the
.BR
                         whole
.BR
                          cause,
.BR
                             and
.BR
                        condemn
.BR
                       you
.BR
                      to
.BR
                       death.\"\'
.BR

.SH
9.6.4 CODE

.BR
Code tags are used to escape regular sisu markup, and have been used
extensively within this document to provide examples of
.B SiSU
markup. You cannot however use code tags to escape code tags. They are
however used in the same way as group or poem tags.

.BR
A code\-block is treated as an object and given a single object number. [an \
option \ to \ number \ each \ line \ of \ code \ may \ be \ considered \ at \
some \ later \ time]

.BR
.B use of code tags instead of poem compared, resulting output:


.nf
                      \'Fury said to a
                     mouse, That he
                   met in the
                 house,
              \"Let us
                both go to
                  law:  I will
                    prosecute
                      YOU.  \-\-Come,
                         I\'ll take no
                          denial; We
                       must have a
                   trial:  For
                really this
             morning I\'ve
            nothing
           to do.\"
             Said the
               mouse to the
                 cur, \"Such
                   a trial,
                     dear Sir,
                           With
                       no jury
                    or judge,
                  would be
                wasting
               our
                breath.\"
                 \"I\'ll be
                   judge, I\'ll
                     be jury,\"
                           Said
                      cunning
                        old Fury:
                       \"I\'ll
                        try the
                           whole
                            cause,
                               and
                          condemn
                         you
                        to
                         death.\"\'
.fi

.SH
9.7 BOOK INDEX

.BR
To make an index append to paragraph the book index term relates to it, using
an equal sign and curly braces.

.BR
Currently two levels are provided, a main term and if needed a sub\-term.
Sub\-terms are separated from the main term by a colon.


.nf
    Paragraph containing main term and sub\-term.
    ={Main term:sub\-term}
.fi

.BR
The index syntax starts on a new line, but there should not be an empty line
between paragraph and index markup.

.BR
The structure of the resulting index would be:


.nf
    Main term, 1
      sub\-term, 1
.fi

.BR
Several terms may relate to a paragraph, they are separated by a semicolon. If
the term refers to more than one paragraph, indicate the number of paragraphs.


.nf
    Paragraph containing main term, second term and sub\-term.
    ={first term; second term: sub\-term}
.fi

.BR
The structure of the resulting index would be:


.nf
    First term, 1,
    Second term, 1,
      sub\-term, 1
.fi

.BR
If multiple sub\-terms appear under one paragraph, they are separated under the
main term heading from each other by a pipe symbol.


.nf
    Paragraph containing main term, second term and sub\-term.
    ={Main term:sub\-term+1|second sub\-term
    A paragraph that continues discussion of the first sub\-term
.fi

.BR
The plus one in the example provided indicates the first sub\-term spans one
additional paragraph. The logical structure of the resulting index would be:


.nf
    Main term, 1,
      sub\-term, 1\-3,
      second sub\-term, 1,
.fi

.SH
10. COMPOSITE DOCUMENTS MARKUP
.BR

.BR
It is possible to build a document by creating a master document that requires
other documents. The documents required may be complete documents that could be
generated independently, or they could be markup snippets, prepared so as to be
easily available to be placed within another text. If the calling document is a
master document (built from other documents), it should be named with the
suffix
.B \.ssm
Within this document you would provide information on the other documents
that should be included within the text. These may be other documents that
would be processed in a regular way, or markup bits prepared only for inclusion
within a master document
.B \.sst
regular markup file, or
.B \.ssi
(insert/information) A secondary file of the composite document is built
prior to processing with the same prefix and the suffix
.B \._sst

.BR
basic markup for importing a document into a master document


.nf
  << filename1.sst
  << filename2.ssi
.fi

.BR
The form described above should be relied on. Within the Vim editor it results
in the text thus linked becoming hyperlinked to the document it is calling in
which is convenient for editing. Alternative markup for importation of
documents under consideration, and occasionally supported have been.


.nf
  << filename.ssi
  <<{filename.ssi}
  % using textlink alternatives
  << |filename.ssi|@|^|
.fi

.SH
MARKUP SYNTAX HISTORY
.BR

.SH
11. NOTES RELATED TO FILES\-TYPES AND MARKUP SYNTAX
.BR

.BR
0.38 is substantially current, depreciated 0.16 supported, though file names
were changed at 0.37

.BR
* sisu \-\-query=[sisu \ version \ [0.38] or \'history]

.BR
provides a short history of changes to
.B SiSU
markup

.BR
.B 0.57
(2007w34/4)
.B SiSU
0.57 is the same as 0.42 with the introduction of some a shortcut to use the
headers @title and @creator in the first heading [expanded \ using \ the \
contents \ of \ the \ headers \ @title: \ and \ @author:]


.nf
  :A~ @title by @author
.fi

.BR
.B 0.52
(2007w14/6) declared document type identifier at start of text/document:

.BR
  .B SiSU
0.52

.BR
or, backward compatible using the comment marker:

.BR
  %
.B SiSU
0.38

.BR
variations include \'
.B SiSU
(text|master|insert) [version]\' and \'sisu\-[version]\'

.BR
.B 0.51
(2007w13/6) skins changed (simplified), markup unchanged

.BR
.B 0.42
(2006w27/4) * (asterisk) type endnotes, used e.g. in relation to author

.BR
.B SiSU
0.42 is the same as 0.38 with the introduction of some additional endnote
types,

.BR
Introduces some variations on endnotes, in particular the use of the asterisk


.nf
  ~{* for example for describing an author }~ and ~{** for describing a second author }~
.fi

.BR
* for example for describing an author

.BR
** for describing a second author

.BR
and


.nf
  ~[* \ my \ note \ ]~ or ~[+ \ another \ note \ ]~
.fi

.BR
which numerically increments an asterisk and plus respectively

.BR
*1 my note +1 another note

.BR
.B 0.38
(2006w15/7) introduced new/alternative notation for headers, e.g. @title:
(instead of 0~title), and accompanying document structure markup,
:A,:B,:C,1,2,3 (maps to previous 1,2,3,4,5,6)

.BR
.B SiSU
0.38 introduced alternative experimental header and heading/structure
markers,


.nf
  @headername: and headers :A~ :B~ :C~ 1~ 2~ 3~
.fi

.BR
as the equivalent of:


.nf
  0~headername and headers 1~ 2~ 3~ 4~ 5~ 6~
.fi

.BR
The internal document markup of
.B SiSU
0.16 remains valid and standard Though note that
.B SiSU
0.37 introduced a new file naming convention

.BR
.B SiSU
has in effect two sets of levels to be considered, using 0.38 notation A\-C
headings/levels, pre\-ordinary paragraphs /pre\-substantive text, and 1\-3
headings/levels, levels which are followed by ordinary text. This may be
conceptualised as levels A,B,C, 1,2,3, and using such letter number notation,
in effect: A must exist, optional B and C may follow in sequence (not strict) 1
must exist, optional 2 and 3 may follow in sequence i.e. there are two
independent heading level sequences A,B,C and 1,2,3 (using the 0.16 standard
notation 1,2,3 and 4,5,6) on the positive side: the 0.38 A,B,C,1,2,3
alternative makes explicit an aspect of structuring documents in
.B SiSU
that is not otherwise obvious to the newcomer (though it appears more
complicated, is more in your face and likely to be understood fairly quickly);
the substantive text follows levels 1,2,3 and it is \'nice\' to do most work in
those levels

.BR
.B 0.37
(2006w09/7) introduced new file naming convention, \.sst (text), \.ssm
(master), \.ssi (insert), markup syntax unchanged

.BR
.B SiSU
0.37 introduced new file naming convention, using the file extensions \.sst
 \.ssm and \.ssi to replace \.s1 \.s2 \.s3 \.r1 \.r2 \.r3 and \.si

.BR
this is captured by the following file \'rename\' instruction:


.nf
  rename \'s/\.s[123]$/\.sst/\' *.s{1,2,3}
  rename \'s/\.r[123]$/\.ssm/\' *.r{1,2,3}
  rename \'s/\.si$/\.ssi/\' *.si
.fi

.BR
The internal document markup remains unchanged, from
.B SiSU
0.16

.BR
.B 0.35
(2005w52/3) sisupod, zipped content file introduced

.BR
.B 0.23
(2005w36/2) utf\-8 for markup file

.BR
.B 0.22
(2005w35/3) image dimensions may be omitted if rmagick is available to be
relied upon

.BR
.B 0.20.4
(2005w33/4) header 0~links

.BR
.B 0.16
(2005w25/2) substantial changes introduced to make markup cleaner, header
0~title type, and headings [1\-6]~ introduced, also percentage sign (%) at
start of a text line as comment marker

.BR
.B SiSU
0.16 (0.15 development branch) introduced the use of

.BR
the header 0~ and headings/structure 1~ 2~ 3~ 4~ 5~ 6~

.BR
in place of the 0.1 header, heading/structure notation

.BR
.B SiSU
0.1 headers and headings structure represented by header 0{~ and
headings/structure 1{ 2{ 3{ 4{~ 5{ 6{

.SH
12. SISU FILETYPES
.BR

.BR
.B SiSU
has plaintext and binary filetypes, and can process either type of document.

.SH
12.1 \.SST \.SSM \.SSI MARKED UP PLAIN TEXT

.BR
.B SiSU
documents are prepared as plain\-text (utf\-8) files with
.B SiSU
markup. They may make reference to and contain images (for example), which
are stored in the directory beneath them _sisu/image.
.B SiSU
plaintext markup files are of three types that may be distinguished by the
file extension used: regular text \.sst; master documents, composite documents
that incorporate other text, which can be any regular text or text insert; and
inserts the contents of which are like regular text except these are marked
 \.ssi and are not processed.

.BR
.B SiSU
processing can be done directly against a sisu documents; which may be
located locally or on a remote server for which a url is provided.

.BR
.B SiSU
source markup can be shared with the command:

.BR
  sisu \-s [filename]

.SH
12.1.1 SISU TEXT \- REGULAR FILES (.SST)

.BR
The most common form of document in
.B SiSU
, see the section on
.B SiSU
markup.

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_markup>

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_manual>

.SH
12.1.2 SISU MASTER FILES (.SSM)

.BR
Composite documents which incorporate other
.B SiSU
documents which may be either regular
.B SiSU
text \.sst which may be generated independently, or inserts prepared solely
for the purpose of being incorporated into one or more master documents.

.BR
The mechanism by which master files incorporate other documents is described as
one of the headings under under
.B SiSU
markup in the
.B SiSU
manual.

.BR
Note: Master documents may be prepared in a similar way to regular documents,
and processing will occur normally if a \.sst file is renamed \.ssm without
requiring any other documents; the \.ssm marker flags that the document may
contain other documents.

.BR
Note: a secondary file of the composite document is built prior to processing
with the same prefix and the suffix \._sst [^17]

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_markup>

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_manual>

.SH
12.1.3 SISU INSERT FILES (.SSI)

.BR
Inserts are documents prepared solely for the purpose of being incorporated
into one or more master documents. They resemble regular
.B SiSU
text files except they are ignored by the
.B SiSU
processor. Making a file a \.ssi file is a quick and convenient way of
flagging that it is not intended that the file should be processed on its own.

.SH
12.2 SISUPOD, ZIPPED BINARY CONTAINER (SISUPOD.ZIP, \.SSP)

.BR
A sisupod is a zipped
.B SiSU
text file or set of
.B SiSU
text files and any associated images that they contain (this will be extended
to include sound and multimedia\-files)

.BR
.B SiSU
plaintext files rely on a recognised directory structure to find contents
such as images associated with documents, but all images for example for all
documents contained in a directory are located in the sub\-directory
_sisu/image. Without the ability to create a sisupod it can be inconvenient to
manually identify all other files associated with a document. A sisupod
automatically bundles all associated files with the document that is turned
into a pod.

.BR
The structure of the sisupod is such that it may for example contain a single
document and its associated images; a master document and its associated
documents and anything else; or the zipped contents of a whole directory of
prepared
.B SiSU
documents.

.BR
The command to create a sisupod is:

.BR
  sisu \-S [filename]

.BR
Alternatively, make a pod of the contents of a whole directory:

.BR
  sisu \-S

.BR
.B SiSU
processing can be done directly against a sisupod; which may be located
locally or on a remote server for which a url is provided.

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_commands>

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sisu_manual>

.SH
13. EXPERIMENTAL ALTERNATIVE INPUT REPRESENTATIONS
.BR

.SH
13.1 ALTERNATIVE XML

.BR
.B SiSU
offers alternative XML input representations of documents as a proof of
concept, experimental feature. They are however not strictly maintained, and
incomplete and should be handled with care.

.BR
.B convert from sst to simple xml representations (sax, dom and node):

.BR
  sisu \-\-to\-sax [filename/wildcard] or sisu \-\-to\-sxs [filename/wildcard]

.BR
  sisu \-\-to\-dom [filename/wildcard] or sisu \-\-to\-sxd [filename/wildcard]

.BR
  sisu \-\-to\-node [filename/wildcard] or sisu \-\-to\-sxn [filename/wildcard]

.BR
.B convert to sst from any sisu xml representation (sax, dom and node):

.BR
  sisu \-\-from\-xml2sst [filename/wildcard \ [.sxs.xml,.sxd.xml,sxn.xml]]

.BR
or the same:

.BR
  sisu \-\-from\-sxml [filename/wildcard \ [.sxs.xml,.sxd.xml,sxn.xml]]

.SH
13.1.1 XML SAX REPRESENTATION

.BR
To convert from sst to simple xml (sax) representation:

.BR
  sisu \-\-to\-sax [filename/wildcard] or sisu \-\-to\-sxs [filename/wildcard]

.BR
To convert from any sisu xml representation back to sst

.BR
  sisu \-\-from\-xml2sst [filename/wildcard \ [.sxs.xml,.sxd.xml,sxn.xml]]

.BR
or the same:

.BR
  sisu \-\-from\-sxml [filename/wildcard \ [.sxs.xml,.sxd.xml,sxn.xml]]

.SH
13.1.2 XML DOM REPRESENTATION

.BR
To convert from sst to simple xml (dom) representation:

.BR
  sisu \-\-to\-dom [filename/wildcard] or sisu \-\-to\-sxd [filename/wildcard]

.BR
To convert from any sisu xml representation back to sst

.BR
  sisu \-\-from\-xml2sst [filename/wildcard \ [.sxs.xml,.sxd.xml,sxn.xml]]

.BR
or the same:

.BR
  sisu \-\-from\-sxml [filename/wildcard \ [.sxs.xml,.sxd.xml,sxn.xml]]

.SH
13.1.3 XML NODE REPRESENTATION

.BR
To convert from sst to simple xml (node) representation:

.BR
  sisu \-\-to\-node [filename/wildcard] or sisu \-\-to\-sxn [filename/wildcard]

.BR
To convert from any sisu xml representation back to sst

.BR
  sisu \-\-from\-xml2sst [filename/wildcard \ [.sxs.xml,.sxd.xml,sxn.xml]]

.BR
or the same:

.BR
  sisu \-\-from\-sxml [filename/wildcard \ [.sxs.xml,.sxd.xml,sxn.xml]]

.SH
14. CONFIGURATION
.BR

.SH
14.1 DETERMINING THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION

.BR
Information on the current configuration of
.B SiSU
should be available with the help command:

.BR
  sisu \-v

.BR
which is an alias for:

.BR
  sisu \-\-help env

.BR
Either of these should be executed from within a directory that contains sisu
markup source documents.

.SH
14.2 CONFIGURATION FILES (CONFIG.YML)

.BR
.B SiSU
configration parameters are adjusted in the configuration file, which can be
used to override the defaults set. This includes such things as which directory
interim processing should be done in and where the generated output should be
placed.

.BR
The
.B SiSU
configuration file is a yaml file, which means indentation is significant.

.BR
.B SiSU
resource configuration is determined by looking at the following files if
they exist:

.BR
  ./_sisu/sisurc.yml

.BR
  ~/.sisu/sisurc.yml

.BR
  /etc/sisu/sisurc.yml

.BR
The search is in the order listed, and the first one found is used.

.BR
In the absence of instructions in any of these it falls back to the internal
program defaults.

.BR
Configuration determines the output and processing directories and the database
access details.

.BR
If
.B SiSU
is installed a sample sisurc.yml may be found in /etc/sisu/sisurc.yml

.SH
15. SKINS
.BR

.BR
Skins modify the default appearance of document output on a document,
directory, or site wide basis. Skins are looked for in the following locations:

.BR
  ./_sisu/skin

.BR
  ~/.sisu/skin

.BR
  /etc/sisu/skin

.BR
.B Within the skin directory
are the following the default sub\-directories for document skins:

.BR
  ./skin/doc

.BR
  ./skin/dir

.BR
  ./skin/site

.BR
A skin is placed in the appropriate directory and the file named skin_[name].rb

.BR
The skin itself is a ruby file which modifies the default appearances set in
the program.

.SH
15.1 DOCUMENT SKIN

.BR
Documents take on a document skin, if the header of the document specifies a
skin to be used.


.nf
  @skin: skin_united_nations
.fi

.SH
15.2 DIRECTORY SKIN

.BR
A directory may be mapped on to a particular skin, so all documents within that
directory take on a particular appearance. If a skin exists in the skin/dir
with the same name as the document directory, it will automatically be used for
each of the documents in that directory, (except where a document specifies the
use of another skin, in the skin/doc directory).

.BR
A personal habit is to place all skins within the doc directory, and symbolic
links as needed from the site, or dir directories as required.

.SH
15.3 SITE SKIN

.BR
A site skin, modifies the program default skin.

.SH
15.4 SAMPLE SKINS

.BR
With
.B SiSU
installed sample skins may be found in:

.BR
  /etc/sisu/skin/doc and
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/sisu_markup_samples/samples/_sisu/skin/doc

.BR
(or equivalent directory) and if sisu\-markup\-samples is installed also under:

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu\-markup\-samples/v2/samples/_sisu/skin/doc

.BR
Samples of list.yml and promo.yml (which are used to create the right column
list) may be found in:

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/dfsg/_sisu/skin/yml (or equivalent
  directory)

.SH
16. CSS \- CASCADING STYLE SHEETS (FOR HTML, XHTML AND XML)
.BR

.BR
CSS files to modify the appearance of
.B SiSU
html, XHTML or XML may be placed in the configuration directory: \./_sisu/css
; ~/.sisu/css or; /etc/sisu/css and these will be copied to the output
directories with the command sisu \-CC.

.BR
The basic CSS file for html output is html.css, placing a file of that name in
directory _sisu/css or equivalent will result in the default file of that name
being overwritten.

.BR
HTML: html.css

.BR
XML DOM: dom.css

.BR
XML SAX: sax.css

.BR
XHTML: xhtml.css

.BR
The default homepage may use homepage.css or html.css

.BR
Under consideration is to permit the placement of a CSS file with a different
name in directory _sisu/css directory or equivalent, and change the default CSS
file that is looked for in a skin.[^18]

.SH
17. ORGANISING CONTENT
.BR

.SH
17.1 DIRECTORY STRUCTURE AND MAPPING

.BR
The output directory root can be set in the sisurc.yml file. Under the root,
subdirectories are made for each directory in which a document set resides. If
you have a directory named poems or conventions, that directory will be created
under the output directory root and the output for all documents contained in
the directory of a particular name will be generated to subdirectories beneath
that directory (poem or conventions). A document will be placed in a
subdirectory of the same name as the document with the filetype identifier
stripped (.sst \.ssm)

.BR
The last part of a directory path, representing the sub\-directory in which a
document set resides, is the directory name that will be used for the output
directory. This has implications for the organisation of document collections
as it could make sense to place documents of a particular subject, or type
within a directory identifying them. This grouping as suggested could be by
subject (sales_law, english_literature); or just as conveniently by some other
classification (X University). The mapping means it is also possible to place
in the same output directory documents that are for organisational purposes
kept separately, for example documents on a given subject of two different
institutions may be kept in two different directories of the same name, under a
directory named after each institution, and these would be output to the same
output directory. Skins could be associated with each institution on a
directory basis and resulting documents will take on the appropriate different
appearance.

.SH

.SH
18. HOMEPAGES
.BR

.BR
.B SiSU
is about the ability to auto\-generate documents. Home pages are regarded as
custom built items, and are not created by
.B SiSU
. More accurately,
.B SiSU
has a default home page, which will not be appropriate for use with other
sites, and the means to provide your own home page instead in one of two ways
as part of a site\'s configuration, these being:

.BR
1. through placing your home page and other custom built documents in the
subdirectory _sisu/home/ (this probably being the easier and more convenient
option)

.BR
2. through providing what you want as the home page in a skin,

.BR
Document sets are contained in directories, usually organised by site or
subject. Each directory can/should have its own homepage. See the section on
directory structure and organisation of content.

.SH
18.1 HOME PAGE AND OTHER CUSTOM BUILT PAGES IN A SUB\-DIRECTORY

.BR
Custom built pages, including the home page index.html may be placed within the
configuration directory _sisu/home/ in any of the locations that is searched
for the configuration directory, namely \./_sisu ; ~/_sisu ; /etc/sisu From
there they are copied to the root of the output directory with the command:

.BR
  sisu \-CC

.SH
18.2 HOME PAGE WITHIN A SKIN

.BR
Skins are described in a separate section, but basically are a file written in
the programming language
.B Ruby
that may be provided to change the defaults that are provided with sisu with
respect to individual documents, a directories contents or for a site.

.BR
If you wish to provide a homepage within a skin the skin should be in the
directory _sisu/skin/dir and have the name of the directory for which it is to
become the home page. Documents in the directory commercial_law would have the
homepage modified in skin_commercial law.rb; or the directory poems in
skin_poems.rb


.nf
    class Home
      def homepage
        # place the html content of your homepage here, this will become index.html
        <<HOME <html>
  <head></head>
  <doc>
  <p>this is my new homepage.</p>
  </doc>
  </html>
  HOME
      end
    end
.fi

.SH
19. MARKUP AND OUTPUT EXAMPLES
.BR

.SH
19.1 MARKUP EXAMPLES

.BR
Current markup examples and document output samples are provided at
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html>

.BR
Some markup with syntax highlighting may be found under
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/sample/syntax> but is not as up to date.

.BR
For some documents hardly any markup at all is required at all, other than a
header, and an indication that the levels to be taken into account by the
program in generating its output are.

.SH
20. SISU SEARCH \- INTRODUCTION
.BR

.BR
.B SiSU
output can easily and conveniently be indexed by a number of standalone
indexing tools, such as Lucene, Hyperestraier.

.BR
Because the document structure of sites created is clearly defined, and the
text object citation system is available hypothetically at least, for all forms
of output, it is possible to search the sql database, and either read results
from that database, or just as simply map the results to the html output, which
has richer text markup.

.BR
In addition to this
.B SiSU
has the ability to populate a relational sql type database with documents at
an object level, with objects numbers that are shared across different output
types, which make them searchable with that degree of granularity. Basically,
your match criteria is met by these documents and at these locations within
each document, which can be viewed within the database directly or in various
output formats.

.SH
21. SQL
.BR

.SH
21.1 POPULATING SQL TYPE DATABASES

.BR
.B SiSU
feeds sisu markupd documents into sql type databases PostgreSQL[^19] and/or
SQLite[^20] database together with information related to document structure.

.BR
This is one of the more interesting output forms, as all the structural data of
the documents are retained (though can be ignored by the user of the database
should they so choose). All site texts/documents are (currently) streamed to
four tables:

.BR
  * one containing semantic (and other) headers, including, title, author,
  subject, (the Dublin Core...);

.BR
  * another the substantive texts by individual "paragraph" (or object) \-
  along with structural information, each paragraph being identifiable by its
  paragraph number (if it has one which almost all of them do), and the
  substantive text of each paragraph quite naturally being searchable (both in
  formatted and clean text versions for searching); and

.BR
  * a third containing endnotes cross\-referenced back to the paragraph from
  which they are referenced (both in formatted and clean text versions for
  searching).

.BR
  * a fourth table with a one to one relation with the headers table contains
  full text versions of output, eg. pdf, html, xml, and ascii.

.BR
There is of course the possibility to add further structures.

.BR
At this level
.B SiSU
loads a relational database with documents chunked into objects, their
smallest logical structurally constituent parts, as text objects, with their
object citation number and all other structural information needed to construct
the document. Text is stored (at this text object level) with and without
elementary markup tagging, the stripped version being so as to facilitate ease
of searching.

.BR
Being able to search a relational database at an object level with the
.B SiSU
citation system is an effective way of locating content generated by
.B SiSU
. As individual text objects of a document stored (and indexed) together with
object numbers, and all versions of the document have the same numbering,
complex searches can be tailored to return just the locations of the search
results relevant for all available output formats, with live links to the
precise locations in the database or in html/xml documents; or, the structural
information provided makes it possible to search the full contents of the
database and have headings in which search content appears, or to search only
headings etc. (as the Dublin Core is incorporated it is easy to make use of
that as well).

.SH
22. POSTGRESQL
.BR

.SH
22.1 NAME

.BR
.B SiSU
\- Structured information, Serialized Units \- a document publishing system,
postgresql dependency package

.SH
22.2 DESCRIPTION

.BR
Information related to using postgresql with sisu (and related to the
sisu_postgresql dependency package, which is a dummy package to install
dependencies needed for
.B SiSU
to populate a postgresql database, this being part of
.B SiSU
\- man sisu).

.SH
22.3 SYNOPSIS

.BR
  sisu \-D [instruction] [filename/wildcard \ if \ required]

.BR
  sisu \-D \-\-pg \-\-[instruction] [filename/wildcard \ if \ required]

.SH
22.4 COMMANDS

.BR
Mappings to two databases are provided by default, postgresql and sqlite, the
same commands are used within sisu to construct and populate databases however
\-d (lowercase) denotes sqlite and \-D (uppercase) denotes postgresql,
alternatively \-\-sqlite or \-\-pgsql may be used

.BR
.B \-D or \-\-pgsql
may be used interchangeably.

.SH
22.4.1 CREATE AND DESTROY DATABASE

.TP
.B \-\-pgsql \-\-createall
initial step, creates required relations (tables, indexes) in existing
(postgresql) database (a database should be created manually and given the same
name as working directory, as requested) (rb.dbi)

.TP
.B sisu \-D \-\-createdb
creates database where no database existed before

.TP
.B sisu \-D \-\-create
creates database tables where no database tables existed before

.TP
.B sisu \-D \-\-Dropall
destroys database (including all its content)! kills data and drops tables,
indexes and database associated with a given directory (and directories of the
same name).

.TP
.B sisu \-D \-\-recreate
destroys existing database and builds a new empty database structure

.SH
22.4.2 IMPORT AND REMOVE DOCUMENTS

.TP
.B sisu \-D \-\-import \-v [filename/wildcard]
populates database with the contents of the file. Imports documents(s)
specified to a postgresql database (at an object level).

.TP
.B sisu \-D \-\-update \-v [filename/wildcard]
updates file contents in database

.TP
.B sisu \-D \-\-remove \-v [filename/wildcard]
removes specified document from postgresql database.

.SH
23. SQLITE
.BR

.SH
23.1 NAME

.BR
.B SiSU
\- Structured information, Serialized Units \- a document publishing system.

.SH
23.2 DESCRIPTION

.BR
Information related to using sqlite with sisu (and related to the sisu_sqlite
dependency package, which is a dummy package to install dependencies needed for
.B SiSU
to populate an sqlite database, this being part of
.B SiSU
\- man sisu).

.SH
23.3 SYNOPSIS

.BR
  sisu \-d [instruction] [filename/wildcard \ if \ required]

.BR
  sisu \-d \-\-(sqlite|pg) \-\-[instruction] [filename/wildcard \ if \
  required]

.SH
23.4 COMMANDS

.BR
Mappings to two databases are provided by default, postgresql and sqlite, the
same commands are used within sisu to construct and populate databases however
\-d (lowercase) denotes sqlite and \-D (uppercase) denotes postgresql,
alternatively \-\-sqlite or \-\-pgsql may be used

.BR
.B \-d or \-\-sqlite
may be used interchangeably.

.SH
23.4.1 CREATE AND DESTROY DATABASE

.TP
.B \-\-sqlite \-\-createall
initial step, creates required relations (tables, indexes) in existing
(sqlite) database (a database should be created manually and given the same
name as working directory, as requested) (rb.dbi)

.TP
.B sisu \-d \-\-createdb
creates database where no database existed before

.TP
.B sisu \-d \-\-create
creates database tables where no database tables existed before

.TP
.B sisu \-d \-\-dropall
destroys database (including all its content)! kills data and drops tables,
indexes and database associated with a given directory (and directories of the
same name).

.TP
.B sisu \-d \-\-recreate
destroys existing database and builds a new empty database structure

.SH
23.4.2 IMPORT AND REMOVE DOCUMENTS

.TP
.B sisu \-d \-\-import \-v [filename/wildcard]
populates database with the contents of the file. Imports documents(s)
specified to an sqlite database (at an object level).

.TP
.B sisu \-d \-\-update \-v [filename/wildcard]
updates file contents in database

.TP
.B sisu \-d \-\-remove \-v [filename/wildcard]
removes specified document from sqlite database.

.SH
24. INTRODUCTION
.BR

.SH
24.1 SEARCH \- DATABASE FRONTEND SAMPLE, UTILISING DATABASE AND SISU FEATURES,
INCLUDING OBJECT CITATION NUMBERING (BACKEND CURRENTLY POSTGRESQL)

.BR
Sample search frontend <http://search.sisudoc.org> [^21] A small database and
sample query front\-end (search from) that makes use of the citation system,
.I object citation numbering
to demonstrates functionality.[^22]

.BR
.B SiSU
can provide information on which documents are matched and at what locations
within each document the matches are found. These results are relevant across
all outputs using object citation numbering, which includes html, XML, EPUB,
LaTeX, PDF and indeed the SQL database. You can then refer to one of the other
outputs or in the SQL database expand the text within the matched objects
(paragraphs) in the documents matched.

.BR
Note you may set results either for documents matched and object number
locations within each matched document meeting the search criteria; or display
the names of the documents matched along with the objects (paragraphs) that
meet the search criteria.[^23]

.TP
.B sisu \-F \-\-webserv\-webrick
builds a cgi web search frontend for the database created

.BR
The following is feedback on the setup on a machine provided by the help
command:

.BR
  sisu \-\-help sql


.nf
  Postgresql
    user:             ralph
    current db set:   SiSU_sisu
    port:             5432
    dbi connect:      DBI:Pg:database=SiSU_sisu;port=5432
  sqlite
    current db set:   /home/ralph/sisu_www/sisu/sisu_sqlite.db
    dbi connect       DBI:SQLite:/home/ralph/sisu_www/sisu/sisu_sqlite.db
.fi

.BR
Note on databases built

.BR
By default, [unless \ otherwise \ specified] databases are built on a directory
basis, from collections of documents within that directory. The name of the
directory you choose to work from is used as the database name, i.e. if you are
working in a directory called /home/ralph/ebook the database SiSU_ebook is
used. [otherwise \ a \ manual \ mapping \ for \ the \ collection \ is \
necessary]

.SH
24.2 SEARCH FORM

.TP
.B sisu \-F
generates a sample search form, which must be copied to the web\-server cgi
directory

.TP
.B sisu \-F \-\-webserv\-webrick
generates a sample search form for use with the webrick server, which must be
copied to the web\-server cgi directory

.TP
.B sisu \-Fv
as above, and provides some information on setting up hyperestraier

.TP
.B sisu \-W
starts the webrick server which should be available wherever sisu is properly
installed

.BR
The generated search form must be copied manually to the webserver directory as
instructed

.SH
25. HYPERESTRAIER
.BR

.BR
See the documentation for hyperestraier:

.BR
  <http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/>

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/hyperestraier/index.html

.BR
  man estcmd

.BR
NOTE: the examples that follow assume that sisu output is placed in the
directory /home/ralph/sisu_www

.BR
(A) to generate the index within the webserver directory to be indexed:

.BR
  estcmd gather \-sd [index \ name] [directory \ path \ to \ index]

.BR
the following are examples that will need to be tailored according to your
needs:

.BR
  cd /home/ralph/sisu_www

.BR
  estcmd gather \-sd casket /home/ralph/sisu_www

.BR
you may use the \'find\' command together with \'egrep\' to limit indexing to
particular document collection directories within the web server directory:

.BR
  find /home/ralph/sisu_www \-type f | egrep
  \'/home/ralph/sisu_www/sisu/.+?.html$\' |estcmd gather \-sd casket \-

.BR
Check which directories in the webserver/output directory (~/sisu_www or
elsewhere depending on configuration) you wish to include in the search index.

.BR
As sisu duplicates output in multiple file formats, it it is probably
preferable to limit the estraier index to html output, and as it may also be
desirable to exclude files \'plain.txt\', \'toc.html\' and
\'concordance.html\', as these duplicate information held in other html output
e.g.

.BR
  find /home/ralph/sisu_www \-type f | egrep
  \'/sisu_www/(sisu|bookmarks)/.+?.html$\' | egrep \-v
  \'(doc|concordance).html$\' |estcmd gather \-sd casket \-

.BR
from your current document preparation/markup directory, you would construct a
rune along the following lines:

.BR
  find /home/ralph/sisu_www \-type f | egrep \'/home/ralph/sisu_www/([specify \
  first \ directory \ for \ inclusion]|[specify \ second \ directory \ for \
  inclusion]|[another \ directory \ for \ inclusion? \ \...])/.+?.html$\' |
  egrep \-v \'(doc|concordance).html$\' |estcmd gather \-sd
  /home/ralph/sisu_www/casket \-

.BR
(B) to set up the search form

.BR
(i) copy estseek.cgi to your cgi directory and set file permissions to 755:

.BR
  sudo cp \-vi /usr/lib/estraier/estseek.cgi /usr/lib/cgi\-bin

.BR
  sudo chmod \-v 755 /usr/lib/cgi\-bin/estseek.cgi

.BR
  sudo cp \-v /usr/share/hyperestraier/estseek.* /usr/lib/cgi\-bin

.BR
  [see \ estraier \ documentation \ for \ paths]

.BR
(ii) edit estseek.conf, with attention to the lines starting \'indexname:\' and
\'replace:\':

.BR
  indexname: /home/ralph/sisu_www/casket

.BR
  replace: ^file:///home/ralph/sisu_www{{!}}http://localhost

.BR
  replace: /index.html?${{!}}/

.BR
(C) to test using webrick, start webrick:

.BR
  sisu \-W

.BR
and try open the url: <http://localhost:8081/cgi\-bin/estseek.cgi>

.SH
26. SISU_WEBRICK
.BR

.SH
26.1 NAME

.BR
.B SiSU
\- Structured information, Serialized Units \- a document publishing system

.SH
26.2 SYNOPSIS

.BR
sisu_webrick [port]

.BR
or

.BR
sisu \-W [port]

.SH
26.3 DESCRIPTION

.BR
sisu_webrick is part of
.B SiSU
(man sisu) sisu_webrick starts
.B Ruby
\'s Webrick web\-server and points it to the directories to which
.B SiSU
output is written, providing a list of these directories (assuming
.B SiSU
is in use and they exist).

.BR
The default port for sisu_webrick is set to 8081, this may be modified in the
yaml file: ~/.sisu/sisurc.yml a sample of which is provided as
/etc/sisu/sisurc.yml (or in the equivalent directory on your system).

.SH
26.4 SUMMARY OF MAN PAGE

.BR
sisu_webrick, may be started on it\'s own with the command: sisu_webrick [port]
or using the sisu command with the \-W flag: sisu \-W [port]

.BR
where no port is given and settings are unchanged the default port is 8081

.SH
26.5 DOCUMENT PROCESSING COMMAND FLAGS

.BR
sisu \-W [port] starts
.B Ruby
Webrick web\-server, serving
.B SiSU
output directories, on the port provided, or if no port is provided and the
defaults have not been changed in ~/.sisu/sisurc.yaml then on port 8081

.SH
26.6 FURTHER INFORMATION

.BR
For more information on
.B SiSU
see: <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu>

.BR
or man sisu

.SH
26.7 AUTHOR

.BR
Ralph Amissah ralph@amissah.com or ralph.amissah@gmail.com

.SH
26.8 SEE ALSO

.BR
  sisu(1)

.BR
  sisu_vim(7)

.BR
  sisu(8)

.SH
27. REMOTE SOURCE DOCUMENTS
.BR

.BR
.B SiSU
processing instructions can be run against remote source documents by
providing the url of the documents against which the processing instructions
are to be carried out. The remote
.B SiSU
documents can either be sisu marked up files in plaintext \.sst or \.ssm or;
zipped sisu files, sisupod.zip or filename.ssp

.BR
.B \.sst / \.ssm \- sisu text files

.BR
.B SiSU
can be run against source text files on a remote machine, provide the
processing instruction and the url. The source file and any associated parts
(such as images) will be downloaded and generated locally.


.nf
  sisu \-3 http://[provide \ url \ to \ valid \ \.sst \ or \ \.ssm \ file]
.fi

.BR
Any of the source documents in the sisu examples page can be used in this way,
see <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html> and use the url for the
desired document.

.BR
NOTE: to set up a remote machine to serve
.B SiSU
documents in this way, images should be in the directory relative to the
document source \../_sisu/image

.BR
.B sisupod \- zipped sisu files

.BR
A sisupod is the zipped content of a sisu marked up text or texts and any other
associated parts to the document such as images.

.BR
.B SiSU
can be run against a sisupod on a (local or) remote machine, provide the
processing instruction and the url, the sisupod will be downloaded and the
documents it contains generated locally.


.nf
  sisu \-3 http://[provide \ url \ to \ valid \ sisupod.zip \ or \ \.ssp \ file]
.fi

.BR
Any of the source documents in the sisu examples page can be used in this way,
see <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/examples.html> and use the url for the
desired document.

.SH
REMOTE DOCUMENT OUTPUT
.BR

.SH
28. REMOTE OUTPUT
.BR

.BR
Once properly configured
.B SiSU
output can be automatically posted once generated to a designated remote
machine using either rsync, or scp.

.BR
In order to do this some ssh authentication agent and keychain or similar tool
will need to be configured. Once that is done the placement on a remote host
can be done seamlessly with the \-r (for scp) or \-R (for rsync) flag, which
may be used in conjunction with other processing flags, e.g.


.nf
  sisu \-3R sisu_remote.sst
.fi

.SH
28.1 COMMANDS

.TP
.B \-R [filename/wildcard]
copies sisu output files to remote host using rsync. This requires that
sisurc.yml has been provided with information on hostname and username, and
that you have your \"keys\" and ssh agent in place. Note the behavior of rsync
different if \-R is used with other flags from if used alone. Alone the rsync
\-\-delete parameter is sent, useful for cleaning the remote directory (when
\-R is used together with other flags, it is not). Also see \-r

.TP
.B \-r [filename/wildcard]
copies sisu output files to remote host using scp. This requires that
sisurc.yml has been provided with information on hostname and username, and
that you have your \"keys\" and ssh agent in place. Also see \-R

.SH
28.2 CONFIGURATION

.BR
[expand \ on \ the \ setting \ up \ of \ an \ ssh\-agent \ / \ keychain]

.SH
29. REMOTE SERVERS
.BR

.BR
As
.B SiSU
is generally operated using the command line, and works within a Unix type
environment,
.B SiSU
the program and all documents can just as easily be on a remote server, to
which you are logged on using a terminal, and commands and operations would be
pretty much the same as they would be on your local machine.

.SH
30. QUICKSTART \- GETTING STARTED HOWTO
.BR

.SH
30.1 INSTALLATION

.BR
Installation is currently most straightforward and tested on the
.B Debian
platform, as there are packages for the installation of sisu and all
requirements for what it does.

.SH
30.1.1 DEBIAN INSTALLATION

.BR
.B SiSU
is available directly from the
.B Debian
Sid and testing archives (and possibly Ubuntu), assuming your
/etc/apt/sources.list is set accordingly:


.nf
    aptitude update
.BR
    aptitude install sisu\-complete
.fi

.BR
The following /etc/apt/sources.list setting permits the download of additional
markup samples:


.nf
  #/etc/apt/sources.list
.BR
    deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non\-free contrib
.BR
    deb\-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non\-free contrib
.BR
  d
.fi

.BR
The aptitude commands become:


.nf
    aptitude update
.BR
    aptitude install sisu\-complete sisu\-markup\-samples
.fi

.BR
If there are newer versions of
.B SiSU
upstream of the
.B Debian
archives, they will be available by adding the following to your
/etc/apt/sources.list


.nf
  #/etc/apt/sources.list
    deb http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non\-free
    deb\-src http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non\-free
.fi

.BR
repeat the aptitude commands


.nf
    aptitude update
    aptitude install sisu\-complete sisu\-markup\-samples
.fi

.BR
Note however that it is not necessary to install sisu\-complete if not all
components of sisu are to be used. Installing just the package sisu will
provide basic functionality.

.SH
30.1.2 RPM INSTALLATION

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

.BR
They may be downloaded from:

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#rpm>

.BR
as root type:

.BR
  rpm \-i [rpm \ package \ name]

.SH
30.1.3 INSTALLATION FROM SOURCE

.BR
To install
.B SiSU
from source check information at:

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#current>

.BR
* download the source package

.BR
* Unpack the source

.BR
Two alternative modes of installation from source are provided, setup.rb (by
Minero Aoki) and a rant(by Stefan Lang) built install file, in either case: the
first steps are the same, download and unpack the source file:

.BR
For basic use
.B SiSU
is only dependent on the programming language in which it is written
.B Ruby
, and
.B SiSU
will be able to generate html, EPUB, various XMLs, including ODF (and will
also produce LaTeX). Dependencies required for further actions, though it
relies on the installation of additional dependencies which the source tarball
does not take care of, for things like using a database (postgresql or
sqlite)[^24] or converting LaTeX to pdf.

.BR
.B setup.rb

.BR
This is a standard ruby installer, using setup.rb is a three step process. In
the root directory of the unpacked
.B SiSU
as root type:


.nf
      ruby setup.rb config
      ruby setup.rb setup
      #[and \ as \ root:]
      ruby setup.rb install
.fi

.BR
further information on setup.rb is available from:

.BR
  <http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/>

.BR
  <http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/doc/usage.html>

.BR
.B \"install\"

.BR
The \"install\" file provided is an installer prepared using \"rant\". In the
root directory of the unpacked
.B SiSU
as root type:

.BR
  ruby install base

.BR
or for a more complete installation:

.BR
  ruby install

.BR
or

.BR
  ruby install base

.BR
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.

.BR
Further information on \"rant\" is available from:

.BR
  <http://make.rubyforge.org/>

.BR
  <http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=615>

.BR
For a list of alternative actions you may type:

.BR
  ruby install help

.BR
  ruby install \-T

.SH
30.2 TESTING SISU, GENERATING OUTPUT

.BR
To check which version of sisu is installed:

.BR
sisu \-v

.BR
Depending on your mode of installation one or a number of markup sample files
may be found either in the directory:

.BR
...

.BR
or

.BR
...

.BR
change directory to the appropriate one:

.BR
cd /usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/dfsg

.SH
30.2.1 BASIC TEXT, PLAINTEXT, HTML, XML, ODF, EPUB

.BR
Having moved to the directory that contains the markup samples (see
instructions above if necessary), choose a file and run sisu against it

.BR
sisu \-NhwoabxXyv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

.BR
this will generate html including a concordance file, opendocument text format,
plaintext, XHTML and various forms of XML, and OpenDocument text

.SH
30.2.2 LATEX / PDF

.BR
Assuming a LaTeX engine such as tetex or texlive is installed with the required
modules (done automatically on selection of sisu\-pdf in
.B Debian
)

.BR
Having moved to the directory that contains the markup samples (see
instructions above if necessary), choose a file and run sisu against it

.BR
sisu \-pv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

.BR
sisu \-3 free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

.BR
should generate most available output formats: html including a concordance
file, opendocument text format, plaintext, XHTML and various forms of XML, and
OpenDocument text and pdf

.SH
30.2.3 RELATIONAL DATABASE \- POSTGRESQL, SQLITE

.BR
Relational databases need some setting up \- you must have permission to create
the database and write to it when you run sisu.

.BR
Assuming you have the database installed and the requisite permissions

.BR
sisu \-\-sqlite \-\-recreate

.BR
sisu \-\-sqlite \-v \-\-import
free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

.BR
sisu \-\-pgsql \-\-recreate

.BR
sisu \-\-pgsql \-v \-\-import
free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst

.SH
30.3 GETTING HELP

.SH
30.3.1 THE MAN PAGES

.BR
Type:

.BR
  man sisu

.BR
The man pages are also available online, though not always kept as up to date
as within the package itself:

.BR
* sisu.1 <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1> [^25]

.BR
* sisu.8 <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.8> [^26]

.BR
* man directory <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man> [^27]

.SH
30.3.2 BUILT IN HELP

.BR
sisu \-\-help

.BR
sisu \-\-help \-\-env

.BR
sisu \-\-help \-\-commands

.BR
sisu \-\-help \-\-markup

.SH
30.3.3 THE HOME PAGE

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu>

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU>

.SH
30.4 MARKUP SAMPLES

.BR
A number of markup samples (along with output) are available off:

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

.BR
Additional markup samples are packaged separately in the file:

.BR
.B *

.BR
On
.B Debian
they are available in non\-free[^28] to include them it is necessary to
include non\-free in your /etc/apt/source.list or obtain them from the sisu
home site.

.SH
31. EDITOR FILES, SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING
.BR

.BR
The directory:

.BR
  \./data/sisu/v2/conf/editor\-syntax\-etc/

.BR
  /usr/share/sisu/v2/conf/editor\-syntax\-etc

.BR
contains rudimentary sisu syntax highlighting files for:

.BR
* (g)vim <http://www.vim.org>

.BR
  package: sisu\-vim

.BR
status: largely done

.BR
  there is a vim syntax highlighting and folds component

.BR
* gedit <http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit>

.BR
* gobby <http://gobby.0x539.de/>

.BR
  file: sisu.lang

.BR
place in:

.BR
  /usr/share/gtksourceview\-1.0/language\-specs

.BR
or

.BR
  ~/.gnome2/gtksourceview\-1.0/language\-specs

.BR
  status: very basic syntax highlighting

.BR
  comments: this editor features display line wrap and is used by Goby!

.BR
* nano <http://www.nano\-editor.org>

.BR
  file: nanorc

.BR
save as:

.BR
  ~/.nanorc

.BR
  status: basic syntax highlighting

.BR
  comments: assumes dark background; no display line\-wrap; does line breaks

.BR
* diakonos (an editor written in ruby) <http://purepistos.net/diakonos>

.BR
file: diakonos.conf

.BR
save as:

.BR
  ~/.diakonos/diakonos.conf

.BR
includes:

.BR
  status: basic syntax highlighting

.BR
comments: assumes dark background; no display line\-wrap

.BR
* kate & kwrite <http://kate.kde.org>

.BR
  file: sisu.xml

.BR
  place in:

.BR
    /usr/share/apps/katepart/syntax

.BR
  or

.BR
    ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax

.BR
  [settings::configure \ kate::{highlighting,filetypes}]

.BR
  [tools::highlighting::{markup,scripts}:: \ .B \ SiSU \ ]

.BR
* nedit <http://www.nedit.org>

.BR
  file: sisu_nedit.pats

.BR
  nedit \-import sisu_nedit.pats

.BR
  status: a very clumsy first attempt [not \ really \ done]

.BR
  comments: this editor features display line wrap

.BR
* emacs <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html>

.BR
  files: sisu\-mode.el

.BR
  to file ~/.emacs add the following 2 lines:

.BR
    (add\-to\-list \'load\-path \"/usr/share/sisu/v1/conf/editor\-syntax\-etc/emacs\")

.BR
    (require \'sisu\-mode.el)

.BR
  [not \ done \ / \ not \ yet \ included]

.BR
* vim & gvim <http://www.vim.org>

.BR
  files:

.BR
  package is the most comprehensive sisu syntax highlighting and editor
  environment provided to date (is for vim/ gvim, and is separate from the
  contents of this directory)

.BR
  status: this includes: syntax highlighting; vim folds; some error checking

.BR
  comments: this editor features display line wrap

.BR
NOTE:

.BR
[ \ .B \ SiSU \ parses \ files \ with \ long \ lines \ or \ line \ breaks, \
but, \ display \ linewrap \ (without \ line\-breaks) \ is \ a \ convenient \
editor \ feature \ to \ have \ for \ sisu \ markup]

.SH
32. HOW DOES SISU WORK?
.BR

.BR
.B SiSU
markup is fairly minimalistic, it consists of: a (largely optional) document
header, made up of information about the document (such as when it was
published, who authored it, and granting what rights) and any processing
instructions; and markup within the substantive text of the document, which is
related to document structure and typeface.
.B SiSU
must be able to discern the structure of a document, (text headings and their
levels in relation to each other), either from information provided in the
document header or from markup within the text (or from a combination of both).
Processing is done against an abstraction of the document comprising of
information on the document\'s structure and its objects,[2] which the program
serializes (providing the object numbers) and which are assigned hash sum
values based on their content. This abstraction of information about document
structure, objects, (and hash sums), provides considerable flexibility in
representing documents different ways and for different purposes (e.g. search,
document layout, publishing, content certification, concordance etc.), and
makes it possible to take advantage of some of the strengths of established
ways of representing documents, (or indeed to create new ones).

.SH
33. SUMMARY OF FEATURES
.BR

.BR
* sparse/minimal markup (clean utf\-8 source texts). Documents are prepared in
a single UTF\-8 file using a minimalistic mnemonic syntax. Typical literature,
documents like \"War and Peace\" require almost no markup, and most of the
headers are optional.

.BR
* markup is easily readable/parsable by the human eye, (basic markup is simpler
and more sparse than the most basic HTML), [this \ may \ also \ be \ converted
\ to \ XML \ representations \ of \ the \ same \ input/source \ document].

.BR
* markup defines document structure (this may be done once in a header
pattern\-match description, or for heading levels individually); basic text
attributes (bold, italics, underscore, strike\-through etc.) as required; and
semantic information related to the document (header information, extended
beyond the Dublin core and easily further extended as required); the headers
may also contain processing instructions.
.B SiSU
markup is primarily an abstraction of document structure and document
metadata to permit taking advantage of the basic strengths of existing
alternative practical standard ways of representing documents [be \ that \
browser \ viewing, \ paper \ publication, \ sql \ search \ etc.] (html, epub,
xml, odf, latex, pdf, sql)

.BR
* for output produces reasonably elegant output of established industry and
institutionally accepted open standard formats.[3] takes advantage of the
different strengths of various standard formats for representing documents,
amongst the output formats currently supported are:

.BR
  * html \- both as a single scrollable text and a segmented document

.BR
  * xhtml

.BR
  * epub

.BR
  * XML \- both in sax and dom style xml structures for further development as
  required

.BR
  * ODF \- open document format, the iso standard for document storage

.BR
  * LaTeX \- used to generate pdf

.BR
  * pdf (via LaTeX)

.BR
  * sql \- population of an sql database, (at the same object level that is
  used to cite text within a document)

.BR
Also produces: concordance files; document content certificates (md5 or sha256
digests of headings, paragraphs, images etc.) and html manifests (and sitemaps
of content). (b) takes advantage of the strengths implicit in these very
different output types, (e.g. PDFs produced using typesetting of LaTeX,
databases populated with documents at an individual object/paragraph level,
making possible granular search (and related possibilities))

.BR
* ensuring content can be cited in a meaningful way regardless of selected
output format. Online publishing (and publishing in multiple document formats)
lacks a useful way of citing text internally within documents (important to
academics generally and to lawyers) as page numbers are meaningless across
browsers and formats. sisu seeks to provide a common way of pinpoint the text
within a document, (which can be utilized for citation and by search engines).
The outputs share a common numbering system that is meaningful (to man and
machine) across all digital outputs whether paper, screen, or database
oriented, (pdf, HTML, EPUB, xml, sqlite, postgresql), this numbering system can
be used to reference content.

.BR
* Granular search within documents. SQL databases are populated at an object
level (roughly headings, paragraphs, verse, tables) and become searchable with
that degree of granularity, the output information provides the
object/paragraph numbers which are relevant across all generated outputs; it is
also possible to look at just the matching paragraphs of the documents in the
database; [output \ indexing \ also \ work \ well \ with \ search \ indexing \
tools \ like \ hyperestraier].

.BR * long term maintainability of document collections in a world of changing
formats, having a very sparsely marked\-up source document base. there is a
considerable degree of future\-proofing, output representations are
\"upgradeable\", and new document formats may be added. e.g. addition of odf
(open document text) module in 2006, epub in 2009 and in future html5 output
sometime in future, without modification of existing prepared texts

.BR
* SQL search aside, documents are generated as required and static once
generated.

.BR
* documents produced are static files, and may be batch processed, this needs
to be done only once but may be repeated for various reasons as desired
(updated content, addition of new output formats, updated technology document
presentations/representations)

.BR
* document source (plaintext utf\-8) if shared on the net may be used as input
and processed locally to produce the different document outputs

.BR
* document source may be bundled together (automatically) with associated
documents (multiple language versions or master document with inclusions) and
images and sent as a zip file called a sisupod, if shared on the net these too
may be processed locally to produce the desired document outputs

.BR
* generated document outputs may automatically be posted to remote sites.

.BR
* for basic document generation, the only software dependency is
.B Ruby
, and a few standard Unix tools (this covers plaintext, HTML, EPUB, XML, ODF,
LaTeX). To use a database you of course need that, and to convert the LaTeX
generated to pdf, a latex processor like tetex or texlive.

.BR
* as a developers tool it is flexible and extensible

.BR
Syntax highlighting for
.B SiSU
markup is available for a number of text editors.

.BR
.B SiSU
is less about document layout than about finding a way with little markup to
be able to construct an abstract representation of a document that makes it
possible to produce multiple representations of it which may be rather
different from each other and used for different purposes, whether layout and
publishing, or search of content

.BR
i.e. to be able to take advantage from this minimal preparation starting point
of some of the strengths of rather different established ways of representing
documents for different purposes, whether for search (relational database, or
indexed flat files generated for that purpose whether of complete documents, or
say of files made up of objects), online viewing (e.g. html, xml, pdf), or
paper publication (e.g. pdf)...

.BR
the solution arrived at is by extracting structural information about the
document (about headings within the document) and by tracking objects (which
are serialized and also given hash values) in the manner described. It makes
possible representations that are quite different from those offered at
present. For example objects could be saved individually and identified by
their hashes, with an index of how the objects relate to each other to form a
document.

.SH
34. HELP SOURCES
.BR

.BR
For a summary of alternative ways to get help on
.B SiSU
try one of the following:

.BR
.B man page

.BR
  man sisu_help

.BR
.B man2html

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu_help.1.html>

.BR
.B sisu generated output \- links to html

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_help/index.html>

.BR
.B help sources lists

.BR
Alternative sources for this help sources page listed here:

.BR
  man sisu_help_sources

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_help_sources/index.html>

.SH
34.1 MAN PAGES

.SH
34.1.1 MAN

.BR
  man sisu

.BR
  man 7 sisu_complete

.BR
  man 7 sisu_pdf

.BR
  man 7 sisu_postgresql

.BR
  man 7 sisu_sqlite

.BR
  man sisu_termsheet

.BR
  man sisu_webrick

.SH
34.2 SISU GENERATED OUTPUT \- LINKS TO HTML

.BR
Note
.B SiSU
documentation is prepared in
.B SiSU
and output is available in multiple formats including amongst others html,
pdf, odf and epub which may be also be accessed via the html pages[^28]

.SH
34.2.1 WWW.SISUDOC.ORG

.BR
<http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_manual/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_manual/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_commands/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_complete/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_configuration/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_description/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_examples/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_faq/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_filetypes/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_help/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_help_sources/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_howto/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_introduction/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_manual/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_markup/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_output_overview/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_pdf/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_postgresql/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_quickstart/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_remote/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_search/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_skin/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_sqlite/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_syntax_highlighting/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_vim/index.html>

.BR
  <http://sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_webrick/index.html>

.SH
34.3 MAN2HTML

.SH
34.3.1 LOCALLY INSTALLED

.BR
<file:///usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu.1.html>

.BR
<file:///usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu_help.1.html>

.BR
<file:///usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu_help_sources.1.html>

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu.1.html

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu_pdf.7.html

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu_postgresql.7.html

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu_sqlite.7.html

.BR
  /usr/share/doc/sisu/v2/html/sisu_webrick.1.html

.SH
34.3.2 WWW.JUS.UIO.NO/SISU

.BR
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1.html>

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1.html>

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu_complete.7.html>

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu_pdf.7.html>

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu_postgresql.7.html>

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu_sqlite.7.html>

.BR
  <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu_webrick.1.html>

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objects include: headings, paragraphs, verse, tables, images, but not
footnotes/endnotes which are numbered separately and tied to the object from
which they are referenced.
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.BI 2.
i.e. the html, pdf, epub, odf outputs are each built individually and
optimised for that form of presentation, rather than for example the html being
a saved version of the odf, or the pdf being a saved version of the html.

.BR
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.BI 3.
the different heading levels
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.BI 4.
units of text, primarily paragraphs and headings, also any tables, poems,
code-blocks
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.BI 5.
Specification submitted by Adobe to ISO to become a full open ISO
specification
<http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7542722606.html>
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.BI 6.
ISO standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006

.BR
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.BI 7.
An open standard format for e-books

.BR
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.BI *1.
square brackets
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.BI *2.
square brackets
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.BI +1.
square brackets
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.BI 8.
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/>
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.BI 9.
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1.html>
.TP
.BI 10.
From sometime after SiSU 0.58 it should be possible to describe SiSU markup
using SiSU, which though not an original design goal is useful.
.TP
.BI 11.
files should be prepared using UTF-8 character encoding
.TP
.BI 12.
a footnote or endnote
.TP
.BI 13.
self contained endnote marker & endnote in one
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.BI *.
unnumbered asterisk footnote/endnote, insert multiple asterisks if required
.TP
.BI **.
another unnumbered asterisk footnote/endnote
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.BI *3.
editors notes, numbered asterisk footnote/endnote series
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.BI +2.
editors notes, numbered asterisk footnote/endnote series
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.BI 14.
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/>
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.BI 15.
<http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/>
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.BI 16.
Table from the Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler>
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.BI 17.
\.ssc (for composite) is under consideration but \._sst makes clear that this
is not a regular file to be worked on, and thus less likely that people will
have \"accidents\", working on a \.ssc file that is overwritten by subsequent
processing. It may be however that when the resulting file is shared \.ssc is an
appropriate suffix to use.
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.BI 19.
<http://www.postgresql.org/>
<http://advocacy.postgresql.org/>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgresql>
.TP
.BI 20.
<http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sqlite>
.TP
.BI 21.
<http://search.sisudoc.org>
.TP
.BI 22.
(which could be extended further with current back-end). As regards scaling
of the database, it is as scalable as the database (here Postgresql) and
hardware allow.
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.BI 23.
of this feature when demonstrated to an IBM software innovations evaluator
in 2004 he said to paraphrase: this could be of interest to us. We have large
document management systems, you can search hundreds of thousands of documents
and we can tell you which documents meet your search criteria, but there is no
way we can tell you without opening each document where within each your
matches are found.
.TP
.BI 24.
There is nothing to stop MySQL support being added in future.
.TP
.BI 25.
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1>
.TP
.BI 26.
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.8>
.TP
.BI 27.
<http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man>
.TP
.BI 28.
the
.B Debian
Free Software guidelines require that everything distributed within
.B Debian
can be changed - and the documents are authors' works that while freely
distributable are not freely changeable.
.TP
.BI 29.
named index.html or more extensively through sisu_manifest.html

.BR

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Title:
.I SiSU - Manual

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Creator:
.I Ralph Amissah

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Rights:
.I Copyright (C) Ralph Amissah 2007, part of SiSU documentation, License GPL 3;

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Publisher:
.I SiSU http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu (this copy)

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Date created:
.I 2002-08-28

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Date issued:
.I 2002-08-28

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Date available:
.I 2002-08-28

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Date modified:
.I 2010-03-03

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Date:
.I 2008-05-22

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Sourcefile:
.I sisu.ssm.sst

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.I SiSU text insert 2.0

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.I MD5(sisu.ssm.sst)= fd741a3ccf160aa55b942d76bd4e3f2a

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.I Generated by: SiSU 2.0.0 of 2010w09/6 (2010-03-06)

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