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9FRONT DOCS =========== This is "docs", a repository of live documents covering plan9/front theory, usage, and development. **ACHTUNG!** This is a work-in-progress prototype. See the [technical details](this.html). ### Springboards [HOWTO](howto.html) [TODO](todo.html) Reading ------- Document updates are periodically fetched by the backend, which renders the document tree and makes it available for reading via 9p and HTTP. ### 9p On Plan 9, run: 9fs tcp!docs.a-b.xyz!909 /n/docs ### HTTP Visit [docs.a-b.xyz](http://docs.a-b.xyz) with a web browser. Contributing ------------ The document source repository is currently hosted and available for browsing [here](https://git.sr.ht/~kvik/docs.9front.org). Get it locally for reading: git/clone https://git.sr.ht/~kvik/docs.9front.org For reading and writing: git/clone ssh://git@git.sr.ht/~kvik/docs.9front.org Everyone is invited to get write access by asking (kvik) on IRC, grid, or kvik@a-b.xyz. Otherwise you may submit patches through contribution mechanisms on [sr.ht](https://sr.ht), by sending a mail to the 9front@9front.org mailing list, or communicating with your favorite editor. Contributed documents are mostly expected to be markdown-formatted files, denoted by the `.md` file extension. The formatting syntax used by the markdown processor [discount](https://github.com/Orc/discount) used by the backend is documented in the manual page [markdown(6)](http://a-b.xyz/6e/c837). Additionally, plain text files and HTML documents may be entered into the repository with file extensions `.txt` and `.shtml`, respectively. These will be copied verbatim into the rendered document tree. **Warning** only one of `a.md`, `a.txt`, or `a.shtml` may exist at the same time. Otherwise the document generation will fail. This is a problem with the current implementation and may be fixed in the future. Images and other static content is best hosted outside this repository. Dedicated upload and stable link space may be provided later.