refactor: Remove report_docs_build parameter

The underlying mkdocs_simple_plugin now itself reports the doc build
  directory. This commit also updates the documentation slightly.
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Glen Whitney 2021-02-08 21:41:24 -08:00
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# MkDocs semiliterate Plugin
This plugin for MkDocs is an extension of Allison Thackston's excellent [mkdocs-simple-plugin](https://athackst.github.io/mkdocs-simple-plugin). It adds `{! ... !}` syntax for including content from one file into another (and a couple of other small ease-of-use tweaks).
This plugin for MkDocs is an extension of Allison Thackston's excellent [mkdocs-simple-plugin](https://athackst.github.io/mkdocs-simple-plugin). It allows you to include content from one file into another (via `{! ... !}` syntax), using exactly the same extraction specification as the `simple` plugin already uses for identifying documentation in source files.
<!-- repo: --><!-- site: The current version of mkdocs-semiliterate is {! setup.cfg { extract: {start: name}, terminate: '(\d*\.\d*\.\d*)'} !}. -->
## Rationale
Time and trends have not validated Knuth's original vision of "literate programming" as a mainstream practice. Nevertheless, there remain significant advantages to incorporating all documentation, including user-guide-style narrative, into the source code for a project. These advantages include ease of maintenance and synchronization of code and documentation, and opportunities to make the ensemble of your code and documentation more DRY. Thus, it's worth using a "semiliterate" programming style, in which: code is arranged as dictated by best software engineering practices; documentation is co-located in the same files next to the implementing code; and tools are provided for extracting and assembling that documentation into readable form.
Time and trends have not validated Knuth's original vision of "literate programming" as a mainstream practice. Nevertheless, there remain significant advantages to incorporating all documentation, including user-guide-style narrative, into the source code for a project. These advantages include ease of maintenance and synchronization of code and documentation, and opportunities to make the ensemble of your code and documentation more DRY. Thus, it's worth using a "semiliterate" programming style, in which
* code is arranged as dictated by best software engineering practices
* documentation is co-located in the same files next to the implementing code
* and tools are provided for extracting and assembling that documentation into readable form.
*[DRY]: Don't Repeat Yourself -- a coding philosophy of creating a single authoritative location for each piece of information.
The mkdocs-simple-plugin goes a long way toward creating a semiliterate programming environment. However, in creating narrative documentation, it's very useful to be able to quote or incorporate content -- whether that be documentation blocks or code examples -- from one file into another. To satisfy that need, this `semiliterate` plugin extends (i.e, literally inherits from) the `simple` plugin and adds a syntax for such inclusion.
The `simple` plugin goes a long way toward creating a semiliterate programming environment. However, in creating narrative documentation, it's very useful to be able to quote or incorporate content -- whether that be documentation blocks or code examples -- from one file into another. To satisfy that need, this `semiliterate` plugin extends (i.e, literally inherits from) the `simple` plugin and adds a syntax for such inclusion.
With a few other small ease-of-use tweaks (documented in the <!-- repo: -->[Usage](http://studioinfinity.org/semiliterate/mkdocs_semiliterate/plugin)<!-- site:[Usage](mkdocs_semiliterate/plugin.md) --> section),
this extended plugin aims to produce a lightweight but comprehensive semiliterate programming environment. <!-- repo: -->The [documentation site](http://studioinfinity.org/semiliterate)<!-- site:This documentation site --> is, of course, produced by MkDocs using the semiliterate plugin.

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merge_docs_dir: false
ignore_folders: [build, dist, tests, semiliterate]
include_extensions: [LICENSE]
report_docs_build: true
extract_standard_markdown:
extract:
replace: [['^(.*)<!-- repo: -->.*<!-- site:(.*?) -->(.*\s*)$', '\1\2\3']]

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# `semiliterate` still incorporates all standard Markdown files
# because of the following `extract_standard_markdown` parameter.
('extract_standard_markdown',
config_options.Type(dict, default={})),
config_options.Type(dict, default={}))
# If the `enable` key of this dict parameter is true
# (it defaults to the opposite of `copy_standard_markdown`),
# it adds a semiliterate block causing extraction (and hence
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# On the other hand, setting this parameter to `{enable: false}`
# (which is also the default when `copy_standard_markdown` is true)
# will prevent automatic extraction from standard Markdown files.
('report_docs_build',
config_options.Type(bool, default=False))
# If true, the name of the temporary directory to which generated docs
# files are copied/extracted will be written to standard output
# (even if the `-v` verbose option to mkdocs is not specified).
)
def build_docs(self):
if self.config['report_docs_build']:
utils.log.info(
f"semiliterate: generating docs in {self.build_docs_dir}")
self.exclude_extensions = self.config['exclude_extensions']
dflt_enable = False
if not self.config['copy_standard_markdown']:

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[metadata]
name = mkdocs-semiliterate
version = 0.0.12
version = 0.0.13
[options]
packages = mkdocs_semiliterate