Github Wikito Converter

Github Wikito Converter allows you to generate HTML & PDF documentation from your Github wiki or any other markdown-based wiki. It is build on top of Limedocs Wiki Converter and contains new features and bug fixes, check the release notes to see them.

Check out sample HTML and PDF files generated from okhttp wiki.

Prerequesites

• Node.js or io.js
• wkhtmltopdf (only necessary for pdf output format)

Note: The patched-QT version of wkhtmltopdf is required for pdf export. Without it, gwtc output can be found as an empty pdf file. See issue (#39) for details.

Installation

Public version

npm install -g github-wikito-converter

Local version

Download github-wikito-converter sources, open termial at the root the folder, and run:

npm run build-and-install-g

Usage

Basic usage

# Clone your github wiki for example
git clone https://github.com/yakivmospan/github-wikito-converter.wiki.git

# Convert your wiki
gwtc ./github-wikito-converter.wiki

Usage help

  Usage: gwtc [options] <wiki-dir>

  Convert a wiki

  Options:

    -h, --help                   output usage information
    -V, --version                output the version number
    -f, --format <format>        Format to convert to. Either html, pdf, or all [default: html]
    -o, --output <output-dir>    Output dir [default: './']
    -n, --file-name <file-name>  Output file name [default: documentation]
    -t, --title <title>          Wiki title [default: Documentation]
    -d, --disable-inline-assets  Disable inlining of images, css and js in html document
    --logo-img <logo-file>       Logo image file
    --footer <footer>            Wiki footer
    --toc <toc-file>             Wiki TOC file
    --toctitle <toc title>       Title of the toc [default: Table of contents] (default: "Table of contents")
    --toc-level <level>          Table of contents deep level [default: 3]
    --highlight-theme <theme>    Highlighter theme [default: github]
    --css <css-file>             Additional CSS file
    --pdf-page-count             Enable PDF page count
    -v --verbose                 Verbose mode

Formats

HTML

Pages to be included in the documentation

By default, Github Wikito Converter will check for the following files to use as a table of contents (TOC):

• _Toc.md
• _Sidebar.md (which is the default sidebar file on Github wikis)

When finding a TOC, gwtc will only generate pages linked from this TOC. Supported link formats are:

• Markdown links with local path [Call Log](Call-Log) / [Log](Call-Log.md) / [Calls](/Call-Log.md);
• Markdown links with remote (http/https) path [Calls](https://github.com/yourrepo/someproject/wiki/Call-Log). Only those links that are placed in TOC will be converted to local page ids;
• Github wiki links [[Call Log]] / [[Call-Log]] / [[Call Log|Call-Log]] / [[Log|Call Log]].

Inlining

By default, the HTML output format will generate a single-page HTML document of you wiki, with all assets inlined, such as images, css, and javascript. So all you need to transfer documentation (to a colleague for example) is to send him/her this unique file.

You can disable this inlining feature by passing --disable-inline-assets (or -d) such as several files will be generated for each of images, css and javascript files.

Table of contents (TOC)

The TOC is rendered using a fixed div in the HTML documentation. You can use --toc-level to prevent the TOC div to overlap the body element.

PDF

Rendering

PDF rendering is done using wkhtmltopdf which should be available in your PATH. It simply renders (more or less) the HTML version of your doc in PDF.

Page breaking

By default all TOC pages starts from a new page. Also with default css you will never see your code block or image broken in two pages. To add additional page breaking use style="page-break-before: always !important; with empty div element.

Before :

## Interceptors

Interceptors are a powerful mechanism that can monitor, rewrite, and retry calls. Here's a simple interceptor that logs the outgoing request and the incoming response.

![Interceptors Diagram](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/square/okhttp/interceptors@2x.png)

After :

<div style="page-break-before: always !important;"/>
## Interceptors

Interceptors are a powerful mechanism that can monitor, rewrite, and retry calls. Here's a simple interceptor that logs the outgoing request and the incoming response.

![Interceptors Diagram](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/square/okhttp/interceptors@2x.png)

Code highlighting

Code highlighting is rendered using highlight.js. You can customize the theme used by using the --highlight-theme option. By default, github theme is used.