3 #TIT pipadoc - Documentation extractor
4 #TIT =================================
5 #TIT Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org>
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8 #LIC 2009, Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org>
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24 #INT Embedding documentation in program source files often yields the problem that the
25 #INT structure of a program is most often not the optimal structure for the associated documentation.
26 #INT Still there are good reasons to maintain documentation together with the source right at the code
27 #INT which defines the documented functionality. Pipadoc addresses this problem by extracting
28 #INT special comments out of a source file and let one define rules how to bring the
29 #INT documentation into proper order.
31 #INT Pipadoc only extracts and reorders the text from it special comments, it never ever looks at the
32 #INT sourcecode or the text it extracts.
34 #INT This is somewhat similar to ``Literate Programming'' but it puts the emphasis back to the code.
35 #INT There is no need to extract the source from a literate source and in contrast to ``Literate Programming''
36 #INT the order of source and text is defined by the programmer and programming language constraints.
38 #INT Pipadoc is programming language and documentation system agnostic, all it requires is that
39 #INT the programming language has some line comments or block comments where one places doc statements
40 #INT on each block line (see xref:c-example[Example for C]).
46 #BAS NOTE: The following description uses the xref:ENV[default] settings for all examples.
48 #BAS Pipadoc is controlled by special line comments.
52 #DIR Line comments immediately followed by a special documentation character (the underscore `_` by default)
53 #DIR are treated as direct comments. They will appear in order of appearance in the generated output.
54 #DIR These can be used to do some boilerplate stuff. Usually one wants to define a controlling document and
55 #DIR use this direct comments only there, since using them in different files might yield unexpected results
56 #DIR since the order then depends on the load order of the files.
58 #DIR //_ This is a direct comment,
59 #DIR //_ it will appear just verbatim in the generated output
64 #KEY A line comment immediately followed by a alphanumeric keyword (including the `_` underscore character)
65 #KEY is treated as key, all such keyed comments can later be placed in intended order with
66 #KEY a xref:SUB[substitution] comment.
68 #KEY //example This text will later be inserted where one uses the `//=example` substitution.
69 #KEY //example All example lines are appended there in order even if they are defined at different
70 #KEY //example places or in different files
74 #KEY A key can be appended with a dot `.` and a non-space string. This string will then be used to sort
75 #KEY these lines alphabetically. This can be used to create sorted indices and glossars, as well as reordering
76 #KEY paragraphs in stored under one primary key.
78 #KEY //example.omega This is sorted after the next line
79 #KEY //example.alpha comes before the omega line above
84 #SUB A line comment immediately followed by a special `substitution` character (the equal `=` sign by default)
85 #SUB followed by a xref:KEY[key] will be replaced by the text defined under that key. The rest of the line
86 #SUB is ignored and can be used as comment.
88 #SUB //=example this will insert anything defined under `//example` here
93 #USE Documenting Files
94 #USE -----------------
96 #USE Usually one wants to write documentation in more or less smaller blocks which later shall be
97 #USE brought into proper order. The xref:SUB[substitutions] feature is the key for this. One writes
98 #USE his documentation blocks with comments which later get replaced by the right sorting key and
99 #USE finally brought into (alphabetical) stable-sort order. You might take a look at the pipadoc
100 #USE source itself to see it in action.
104 #ENV Environment Variables
105 #ENV ---------------------
108 #ENV Defines the line-comment character used in the source file.
109 #ENV Defaults to `//` (C++/C99) if not set. Set this to `#` for shell
111 test "$COM" || COM
='//'
113 #ENV The Documentation character which must follow a line comment to be recognized
114 #ENV by pipadoc as documentation. Either one for local definitions or two for global
115 #ENV definitions are used. Defaults to `_` and needs rarely to be changed.
116 test "$DOC" || DOC
='_'
118 #ENV Substitution character. Defaults to `=` and rarely needs to be changed.
119 #ENV See xref:SUB[substitutions] for details.
121 test "$SUB" || SUB
='='
124 #ENV Section eXTention. Defaults to `.txt`.
125 #ENV See xref:SXT[plaintext files] for details.
127 test "$SXT" || SXT
='.txt'
130 #SXT Documentation Only Files
131 #SXT ------------------------
133 #SXT One can write documentation without the need of pipadoc special comments in files
134 #SXT which have a configured extension (see the xref:ENVSXT[SXT] environment variable).
135 #SXT Each line in such a file which does not have a pipadoc special comment is then implicitly
136 #SXT prepended with the line comment sequence and the basename of that file, for example
137 #SXT lines in a file 'foo.txt' will be treated as if they where written with `//foo ` in front of
138 #SXT them. Later xref:SUB[substitutions] can be used to organize the document.
139 #SXT When such a file has an ordinary pipadoc special comment line then this takes precedence over
140 #SXT the implicit commenting.
147 #INV Pipadoc is called with a list of files from which the documentation shall be extracted.
148 #INV The extracted documentation is piped to stdout. No other command line options are available.
150 #INV There are few xref:ENV[environment variables] to do basic configuration.
154 awk -f /dev
/fd
/3 ${COM:+-v com="$COM"} ${DOC:+-v doc="$DOC"} ${SUB:+-v subs="$SUB"} ${SXT:+-v sxt="$SXT"} "$@" 3<<"EOF"
156 # Plaintext file handling
157 FILENAME ~ sxt "$" && $0 !~ "^" com {
158 match(FILENAME, "/?([^/]*)" sxt "$", p)
163 match($0, com subs "([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]_]*)", s) {
170 match($0, com doc "([[:space:]](.*))?$", s) {
176 # record all other comments which may be candidate comments
177 match($0, "(.*)" com "([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]_]*)(([.]([^[:space:]]*)))?([[:space:]](.*))?", m) && m[1] !~ com {
179 maybe[m[2]] = maybe[m[2]] "\n.." m[5] " " m[7]
181 maybe[m[2]] = "." m[5] " " m[7]
193 nelements = split(maybe[subst[i]], s, "\n[.]")
196 for (j=1; j <=nelements; ++j)
198 match(s[j], ".([^[:space:]]*) (.*)", entries)
200 if ("." entries[1] in tosort)
201 tosort["." entries[1]] = tosort["." entries[1]] "\n" entries[2]
203 tosort["." entries[1]] = entries[2]
206 elements = asorti(tosort, sorted)
207 for (k = 1; k <= elements; ++k)
209 print tosort[sorted[k]]
217 #=TIT Titles and stuff
220 #=DIR Direct comments
225 #=SXT Plain Documentation
226 #=ENV Environment variables
237 # Examples and appendixes:
238 #USE .A small C99 Program
241 #USE //intro This is the well known ``Hello World'' example
242 #USE //glos.helloworld A common program to show examples for programming language and tools
244 #USE //depends Only the Standard C library is needed
245 #USE #include <stdio.h>
247 #USE int main(int argc, char* argv[])
249 #USE //hello print the first commandline argument
250 #USE //glos.argument the text you pass to the programm when calling it from the shell
251 #USE //hello if no argument is given, then exit silently
253 #USE printf("Hello %s\n", argv[1]);
257 #USE // Now the document structure with substitutions:
258 #USE //_ Yet another 'Hello' program
260 #USE //=intro introduction first right after the title
262 #USE //=hello The main documentation
265 #USE //_ Dependencies:
268 #USE //=glos glossary will be sorted
271 #USE Runnning this through pipadoc gives following output:
273 #USE Yet another 'Hello' program
275 #USE This is the well known ``Hello World'' example
277 #USE print the first commandline argument
278 #USE if no argument is given, then exit silently
282 #USE Only the Standard C library is needed
284 #USE the text you pass to the programm when calling it from the shell
285 #USE A common program to show examples for programming language and tools
291 #APP .Using C block comments with pipadoc: +example.c+
294 #APP //_ this is a documentation line
297 #APP use `pipadoc example.c` to process the documentation.