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4 Reference
4.1 AutoDoc worksheets
4.1-1 AutoDocWorksheet
4.2 The AutoDoc() function
4.2-1 AutoDoc
4.2-2 InfoAutoDoc

### 4 Reference

#### 4.1 AutoDoc worksheets

##### 4.1-1 AutoDocWorksheet

`‣ AutoDocWorksheet`( [filenames][,] [optrec] ) | ( function )

The purpose of this function is to create stand-alone PDF and HTML files using AutoDoc without associating them with a package.

Instead of a package directory, you pass one filename or a list of filenames containing AutoDoc text from which the document is created. Settings are supplied via an optional record using the same entries as the optrec argument of `AutoDoc` (4.2-1). Alternatively, you may omit filenames and specify the files via `optrec.autodoc.files`.

A simple worksheet file can define title-page information and chapter content directly in the source file, including example blocks. If this is stored in `worksheet.g`, you can generate documentation via

     AutoDocWorksheet( "worksheet.g" );

This creates documentation in a `doc` subdirectory of the current directory.

Since worksheets do not have a `PackageInfo.g`, title-page fields are specified directly in the worksheet file.

For backwards compatibility, worksheet calls still accept GAP global options for specifying the option-record entries such as `dir`, `scaffold`, `autodoc`, `gapdoc`, and `extract_examples`. However, this feature is deprecated.

#### 4.2 The AutoDoc() function

##### 4.2-1 AutoDoc

`‣ AutoDoc`( [pkgdir][,] [optrec] ) | ( function )

Returns: nothing

This is the main function of the AutoDoc package. It can perform any combination of the following tasks:

1. It can (re)generate a scaffold for your package manual. That is, it can produce two XML files in GAPDoc format to be used as part of your manual: First, a file named `doc/_main.xml` which is used as main XML file for the package manual, i.e. this file sets the XML doctype and defines various XML entities, includes other XML files (both those generated by AutoDoc as well as additional files created by other means), tells GAPDoc to generate a table of contents and an index, and more. Secondly, it creates a file `doc/title.xml` containing a title page for your documentation, with information about your package (name, description, version), its authors and more, based on the data in your `PackageInfo.g`.

2. It can scan your package for AutoDoc based documentation, using documentation comments and commands. This produces additional XML files to be used as part of the package manual.

3. It can use GAPDoc to generate PDF, text and HTML (with MathJax enabled) documentation from the GAPDoc XML files it generated as well as additional such files provided by you. For this, it invokes `MakeGAPDocDoc` (GAPDoc: MakeGAPDocDoc) to convert the XML sources, and it also instructs GAPDoc to copy supplementary files (such as CSS style files) into your doc directory (see `CopyHTMLStyleFiles` (GAPDoc: CopyHTMLStyleFiles)).

These tasks can be enabled independently, so you can use as much or as little of AutoDoc as your package currently needs. For more information and some examples, please refer to Chapter 2.

The parameters have the following meanings:

pkgdir

  This optional parameter is used to determine the package directory in which AutoDoc will operate, and to find the metadata concerning the package being documented. If given, it should be an `IsDirectory` object. If the argument is omitted, then AutoDoc checks if it was called from a `makedoc.g` file or similar, and if so, uses the directory this is contained in. Otherwise the current directory is used. In both cases, the specified directory must contain a `PackageInfo.g` file, and AutoDoc extracts all needed metadata from that. The `IsDirectory` form is for example useful if you have multiple versions of the package around and want to make sure the documentation of the correct version is built.

  For backwards compatibility, it is also possible to pass a package name as this argument, which then is resolved to the package directory of the first instance of this package GAP knows about. However, this is deprecated, as it is unreliable in the presence of multiple copies of a package.

  Note that when using `AutoDocWorksheet` (see 4.1), there is no parameter corresponding to pkgdir and so the package directory is always the current directory, and there is no metadata.

optrec

  optrec can be a record with some additional options. The following are currently supported:

  dir

    This should either be a string, in which case it must be a path relative to the specified package directory, or a `Directory()` object. (Thus, the only way to designate an absolute directory is with a `Directory()` object.) This option specifies where the package documentation (e.g. the GAPDoc XML or the manual PDF, etc.) files are stored and/or will be generated.
    Default value: `"doc/"`.

  scaffold

    This controls whether and how to generate scaffold XML files for the package documentation.

    The value should be either `true`, `false` or a record. If it is a record or `true` (the latter is equivalent to specifying an empty record), then this feature is enabled. It is also enabled if opt.scaffold is missing but the package's info record in `PackageInfo.g` has an `AutoDoc` entry. In all other cases (in particular if opt.scaffold is `false`), scaffolding is disabled.

    If scaffolding is enabled, and PackageInfo.AutoDoc exists, then it is assumed to be a record, and its contents are used as default values for the scaffold settings.

    If opt.scaffold is a record, it may contain the following entries.

    includes

      A list of XML files to be included in the body of the main XML file. If you specify this list and also are using AutoDoc to document your operations with AutoDoc comments, you can add `_AutoDocMainFile.xml` to this list to control at which point the documentation produced by AutoDoc is inserted. If you do not do this, it will be added after the last of your own XML files.

    index

      By default, the scaffold creates an index. If you do not want an index, set this to `false`.

    appendix

      This entry is similar to opt.scaffold.includes but is used to specify files to include after the main body of the manual, i.e. typically appendices written directly in GAPDoc XML. Appendices created with `@Appendix` are included automatically after these files when scaffolding generates the main XML file.

    bib

      The name of a bibliography file, in BibTeX or XML format. If this key is not set, but there is a file `doc/PACKAGENAME.bib` then it is assumed that you want to use this as your bibliography.

    bibstyle

      Overrides the bibliography style used for LaTeX output. This is written as the `Style` attribute of the generated `<Bibliography .../>` element, so valid values are the bibliography style names understood by GAPDoc and BibTeX, such as `alpha`, `alphaurl`, or `plain`.

    entities

      A record whose keys are taken as entity names, set to the corresponding (string) values. For example, if you pass the record SomePackage,

                       rec( SomePackage := "<Package>SomePackage</Package>",
                            RELEASEYEAR := "2015" )

      then the following entity definitions are added to the XML preamble:

          <!ENTITY SomePackage '<Package>SomePackage</Package>'>
                       <!ENTITY RELEASEYEAR '2015'>

      This allows you to write &SomePackage; and &RELEASEYEAR; in your documentation, which will be replaced by respective values specified in the entities definition.

      Note that AutoDoc predefines several entities:

      VERSION

        Set to the `Version` field of your package info record.

      RELEASEYEAR

        Set to a string containing the release year, as derived from the `Date` field of your package info record.

      RELEASEDATE

        Derived from the `Date` field of your package info record.

      SomePackage

        The precise name of this entity is derived from the `PackageName` field of your package info record. Note that it is case sensitive. The content is defined as suggested by the example above.

    TitlePage

      A record with extra title-page fields for the generated manual. Field names are interpreted as title-page XML element names, and their values are written as element content. For example, you can set a custom acknowledgements block with

                       rec( Acknowledgements := "Many thanks to ..." )

      If this is set in `PackageInfo.g` as `PkgInfo.AutoDoc.TitlePage`, it has the same meaning as this option; see subsection 2.5-3 in chapter 2 for details and an example.

      For the list of valid title-page elements, see the GAPDoc manual, specifically section GAPDoc: TitlePage.

    MainPage

      If scaffolding is enabled, by default a main XML file is generated (this is the file which contains the XML doctype and more). If you do not want this (e.g. because you have a handwritten main XML file), but still want AutoDoc to generate a title page for you, you can set this option to `false`

    document_class

      Sets the document class of the resulting PDF. The value can either be a string which has to be the name of the new document class, a list containing this string, or a list of two strings. Then the first one has to be the document class name, the second one the option string ( contained in [ ] ) in LaTeX.

    latex_header_file

      Replaces the standard header from GAPDoc completely with the header in this LaTeX file. Please be careful here, and look at GAPDoc's `latexheader.tex` file for an example.

  autodoc

    This controls whether and how to generate additional XML documentation files by scanning for AutoDoc documentation comments.

    The value should be either `true`, `false` or a record. If it is a record or `true` (the latter is equivalent to specifying an empty record), then this feature is enabled. It is also enabled if opt.autodoc is missing but the package depends (directly) on the AutoDoc package. In all other cases (in particular if opt.autodoc is `false`), this feature is disabled.

    If opt.autodoc is a record, it may contain the following entries.

    files

      A list of files (given by paths relative to the package directory) to be scanned for AutoDoc documentation comments. Usually it is more convenient to use autodoc.scan_dirs, see below.

    scan_dirs

      A list of subdirectories of the package directory (given as relative paths) which AutoDoc then scans recursively for .gi, .gd, .g, and .autodoc files; all of these files are then scanned for AutoDoc documentation comments. The special entries `"."` and `""` still only scan the package root itself. This controls where AutoDoc looks for source comments beginning with `#!` and for standalone `.autodoc` files. It does not affect where GAPDoc looks for GAPDoc comments; that is controlled separately by gapdoc.scan_dirs.
      Default value: `[ ".", "gap", "lib", "examples", "examples/doc" ]`.

    level

      This defines the level of the created documentation. The default value is 0. When parts of the manual are declared with a higher value they will not be printed into the manual.

  gapdoc

    This controls whether and how to invoke GAPDoc to create HTML, PDF and text files from your various XML files.

    The value should be either `true`, `false` or a record. If it is a record or `true` (the latter is equivalent to specifying an empty record), then this feature is enabled. It is also enabled if opt.gapdoc is missing. In all other cases (in particular if opt.gapdoc is `false`), this feature is disabled.

    If opt.gapdoc is a record, it may contain the following entries.

    main

      The name of the main XML file of the package manual. This exists primarily to support packages with existing manual which use a filename here which differs from the default. In particular, specifying this is unnecessary when using scaffolding.
      Default value: `_main.xml` when scaffolding is enabled for package manuals, otherwise `PACKAGENAME.xml`.

    files

      A list of files (given by paths relative to the package directory) to be scanned for GAPDoc documentation comments. Usually it is more convenient to use gapdoc.scan_dirs, see below.

    scan_dirs

      A list of subdirectories of the package directory (given as relative paths) which AutoDoc then scans recursively for .gi, .gd and .g files; all of these files are then scanned for GAPDoc documentation comments. The special entries `"."` and `""` still only scan the package root itself. This controls only where GAPDoc comments are searched for. It does not affect where AutoDoc looks for source comments beginning with `#!` or for `.autodoc` files; use autodoc.scan_dirs for that.
      Default value: `[ ".", "gap", "lib", "examples", "examples/doc" ]`.

    LaTeXOptions

      Must be a record with entries which can be understood by `SetGapDocLaTeXOptions` (GAPDoc: SetGapDocLaTeXOptions). Each entry can be a string, which will be given to GAPDoc directly, or a list containing of two entries: The first one must be the string "file", the second one a filename. This file will be read and then its content is passed to GAPDoc as option with the name of the entry.

    gap_root_relative_path

      Either a boolean, or a string containing a relative path. By default (if this option is not set, or is set to `false`), references in the generated documentation referring to external documentation (such as the GAP manual) are encoded using absolute paths. This is fine as long as the documentation stays on only a single computer, but is problematic when preparing documentation that should be used on multiple computers, e.g., when creating a distribution archive of a GAP package.
      Thus, if a relative path is provided via this option (or if it is set to `true`, in which case the relative path `../../..` is used), then AutoDoc and GAPDoc attempt to replace all absolute paths in references to GAP manuals by paths based on this relative path.

      On a technical level, AutoDoc passes the relative path to the gaproot parameter of `MakeGAPDocDoc` (GAPDoc: MakeGAPDocDoc)

  extract_examples

    Either `true` or a record. If set to `true`, then all manual examples are extracted and placed into files `tst/PACKAGENAME01.tst`, `tst/PACKAGENAME02.tst`, ... and so on, with one file for each chapter. For chapters with no examples, no file is created.

    If set to a record, it may contain the following entries:

    subdir

      A string or `Directory()` object selecting where the generated `.tst` files are written. The default is `tst`. If a string is given, it is interpreted relative to the package directory, so values such as `tst/generated` are supported.

    units

      This controls how examples are grouped into files. Recognized values are "Chapter" (default), "Section", "Subsection" or "Single". Depending on the value, one file is created for each chapter, each section, each subsection or each example. For all other values only a single file is created.

      On a technical level, AutoDoc passes the value to the units parameter of `ExtractExamples` (GAPDoc: ExtractExamples).

    skip_empty_in_numbering

      If set to `true` (the default), the generated files use filenames with strictly sequential numbering; that means that if chapter 1 (or whatever units are being used) contains no examples but chapter 2 does, then the examples for chapter 2 are put into the file `tst/PACKAGENAME01.tst`. If this option is set to `false`, then the chapter numbers are used to generate the filenames; so the examples for chapter 2 would be put into the file `tst/PACKAGENAME02.tst`.

The function also checks the following GAP global options, i.e. options supplied via GAP's value-option syntax and visible through nested calls. These are not entries of optrec. See Reference: Options Stack for more information about GAP's global options system.

nopdf

  If this global option is set to `true`, then AutoDoc tells GAPDoc not to build the PDF version of the manual. HTML and text output are still generated.

  This is useful on systems without a working `pdflatex` installation, or when you only need the non-PDF outputs while iterating on the manual.

  For example:

           AutoDoc( rec( autodoc := true ) : nopdf );

  Also, if the environment variable `NOPDF` is set, then AutoDoc behaves as if the global option nopdf had been enabled.

relativePath

  This has the same effect as gapdoc.gap_root_relative_path, but as a GAP global option. It takes precedence over that record entry if both are specified.

  If relativePath is `true`, then the default relative path `../../..` is used. If it is a string, then that string is used as the relative path from the documentation directory to the GAP root.

  For example:

           AutoDoc( rec( autodoc := true ) : relativePath := "../../.." );

In particular, a call such as

     Read( "makedoc.g" : nopdf, relativePath );

sets both global options to `true`, and they remain visible to the `AutoDoc` call inside `makedoc.g`.

##### 4.2-2 InfoAutoDoc

`‣ InfoAutoDoc` | ( info class )

Info class for the AutoDoc package. Set this to 0 to suppress info messages, 1 to allow most messages, and 2 to allow all messages including those that contain file paths.

This can be set by calling, for example, `SetInfoLevel(InfoAutoDoc, 0)`. Default value is 1.

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