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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.