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3 #TIT pipadoc - Documentation extractor
4 #TIT =================================
5 #TIT Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org>
6 #TIT
7 #LIC Copyright (C) Pipapo Project
8 #LIC 2009, Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org>
9 #LIC
10 #LIC This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 #LIC it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 #LIC the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
13 #LIC any later version.
14 #LIC
15 #LIC This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 #LIC but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 #LIC MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 #LIC GNU General Public License for more details.
19 #LIC
20 #LIC You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 #LIC along with this program; if not, contact Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org>.
22 #LIC
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.
30 #INT
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.
33 #INT
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.
37 #INT
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]).
41 #INT
42 #BAS [[BAS]]
43 #BAS Basic concepts
44 #BAS --------------
45 #BAS
46 #BAS NOTE: The following description uses the xref:ENV[default] settings for all examples.
47 #BAS
48 #BAS Pipadoc is controlled by special line comments.
49 #BAS
50 #DIR [[DIR]]
51 #DIR .Direct 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.
57 #DIR ----
58 #DIR //_ This is a direct comment,
59 #DIR //_ it will appear just verbatim in the generated output
60 #DIR ----
61 #DIR
62 #KEY [[KEY]]
63 #KEY .Keys
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.
67 #KEY ----
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
71 #KEY ----
72 #KEY
73 #KEY .Sorted Keys
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.
77 #KEY ----
78 #KEY //example.omega This is sorted after the next line
79 #KEY //example.alpha comes before the omega line above
80 #KEY ----
81 #KEY
82 #SUB [[SUB]]
83 #SUB .Substitutions
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.
87 #SUB ----
88 #SUB //=example this will insert anything defined under `//example` here
89 #SUB ----
90 #SUB
92 #USE [[USE]]
93 #USE Documenting Files
94 #USE -----------------
95 #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.
101 #USE
103 #ENV [[ENV]]
104 #ENV Environment Variables
105 #ENV ---------------------
106 #ENV
107 #ENV `COM`::
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
110 #ENV like languages.
111 test "$COM" || COM='//'
112 #ENV `DOC`::
113 #ENV The Documentation character which must follow a line comment to be recognized
114 #ENV by pipadoc as documentation. Either one for local definitions or two for global
115 #ENV definitions are used. Defaults to `_` and needs rarely to be changed.
116 test "$DOC" || DOC='_'
117 #ENV `SUB`::
118 #ENV Substitution character. Defaults to `=` and rarely needs to be changed.
119 #ENV See xref:SUB[substitutions] for details.
120 #ENV
121 test "$SUB" || SUB='='
122 #ENV [[ENVSXT]]
123 #ENV `SXT`::
124 #ENV Section eXTention. Defaults to `.txt`.
125 #ENV See xref:SXT[plaintext files] for details.
126 #ENV
127 test "$SXT" || SXT='.txt'
129 #SXT [[SXT]]
130 #SXT Documentation Only Files
131 #SXT ------------------------
132 #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.
141 #SXT
143 #INV [[INV]]
144 #INV Invocation
145 #INV ----------
146 #INV
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.
149 #INV
150 #INV There are few xref:ENV[environment variables] to do basic configuration.
151 #INV
153 # here we go
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)
159 $0 = com p[1] " " $0
162 # Substitution
163 match($0, com subs "([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]_]*)", s) {
165 subst[n] = s[1]
166 next
169 # doc comment
170 match($0, com doc "([[:space:]](.*))?$", s) {
172 output[n] = s[2]
173 next
176 # record all other comments which may be candidate comments
177 match($0, "(.*)" com "([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]_]*)(([.]([^[:space:]]*)))?([[:space:]](.*))?", m) && m[1] !~ com {
178 if (m[2] in maybe)
179 maybe[m[2]] = maybe[m[2]] "\n.." m[5] " " m[7]
180 else
181 maybe[m[2]] = "." m[5] " " m[7]
182 next
185 # finally output
186 END {
187 for (i=1; i<=n; ++i)
189 if (i in output)
190 print output[i]
191 else
193 nelements = split(maybe[subst[i]], s, "\n[.]")
194 split("", tosort)
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]
202 else
203 tosort["." entries[1]] = entries[2]
206 elements = asorti(tosort, sorted)
207 for (k = 1; k <= elements; ++k)
209 print tosort[sorted[k]]
216 #Document structure:
217 #=TIT Titles and stuff
218 #=INT Introduction
219 #=BAS Basics
220 #=DIR Direct comments
221 #=KEY Key comments
222 #=SUB Substitutions
223 #=INV Invocation
224 #=USE Real usage
225 #=SXT Plain Documentation
226 #=ENV Environment variables
227 #_ Appendix
228 #_ --------
229 #=APP Appendix
230 #_ License
231 #_ -------
232 #_ [[LIC]]
233 #_ ....
234 #=LIC
235 #_ ....
237 # Examples and appendixes:
238 #USE .A small C99 Program
239 #USE [source,c]
240 #USE ----
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
243 #USE
244 #USE //depends Only the Standard C library is needed
245 #USE #include <stdio.h>
246 #USE
247 #USE int main(int argc, char* argv[])
248 #USE {
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
252 #USE if (argc > 1)
253 #USE printf("Hello %s\n", argv[1]);
254 #USE return 0;
255 #USE }
256 #USE
257 #USE // Now the document structure with substitutions:
258 #USE //_ Yet another 'Hello' program
259 #USE //_
260 #USE //=intro introduction first right after the title
261 #USE //intro
262 #USE //=hello The main documentation
263 #USE //_
264 #USE //_ Appendix
265 #USE //_ Dependencies:
266 #USE //=depends
267 #USE //_ Glossary
268 #USE //=glos glossary will be sorted
269 #USE ----
270 #USE
271 #USE Runnning this through pipadoc gives following output:
272 #USE ----
273 #USE Yet another 'Hello' program
274 #USE
275 #USE This is the well known ``Hello World'' example
276 #USE
277 #USE print the first commandline argument
278 #USE if no argument is given, then exit silently
279 #USE
280 #USE Appendix
281 #USE Dependencies:
282 #USE Only the Standard C library is needed
283 #USE Glossary
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
286 #USE ----
287 #USE
289 #APP [[c-example]]
290 #APP
291 #APP .Using C block comments with pipadoc: +example.c+
292 #APP ----
293 #APP /*
294 #APP //_ this is a documentation line
295 #APP */
296 #APP ----
297 #APP use `pipadoc example.c` to process the documentation.
298 #APP