{"repo":"foliant-docs/foliant","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/foliant-docs/foliant","clone":"git clone https://github.com/foliant-docs/foliant.git","description":"Comprehensive markdown-based documentation toolkit","language":"Python","stars":177,"topics":["documentation","latex","markdown","python","docx","docs"],"license":"MIT","category":"docs-static-sites","readme_excerpt":"Foliant Foliant is an all-in-one single-source documentation authoring tool. It lets you produce standalone documents in pdf and docx , build static websites and upload pages to Confluence , all from single Markdown source. Foliant is a higher order tool, which means it uses other programs to do its job. For building pdf and docx, it can use Pandoc or md-to-pdf, for websites MkDocs, Aglio or Slate. Foliant preprocessors let you reuse parts of your documents, show and hide content with flags, render diagrams from text, and much more. Foliant is highly extensible, so if it lacks some functions or output formats you can always make a plugin for it or request one from our team. Foliant Documentation website. Installation Foliant is written in Python and requires Python 3.6. To install Foliant, use pip: Backends, extensions, and preprocessors are installed with pip as well. For the Quickstart, you'll need the MkDocs backend and init CLI extension: To build pdf and docx, install the Pandoc backend: Quickstart 1. Create a new project: This command creates a basic Foliant project: foliant.yml is the project config file, src is the directory that contains the project source files (initially, just one file index.md ). 2. Build a website from the newly created project: 3. Run a local webserver in the site directory and see the site in your browser: 4. Build a standalone pdf document from the project: Important To produce pdf, Pandoc first converts Markdown to tex and then coverts it to ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/foliant-docs","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/foliant-docs/foliant/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}