SiSU - Skins,
Ralph Amissah

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Document Skins - configuration

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1. Skins

1. Skins

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Skins modify the default appearance of document output on a document, directory, or site wide basis. Skins are looked for in the following locations:

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./_sisu/skin

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~/.sisu/skin

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/etc/sisu/skin

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Within the skin directory are the following the default sub-directories for document skins:

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./skin/doc

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./skin/dir

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./skin/site

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A skin is placed in the appropriate directory and the file named skin_[name].rb

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The skin itself is a ruby file which modifies the default appearances set in the program.

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1.1 Document Skin

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Documents take on a document skin, if the header of the document specifies a skin to be used.

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  @skin: skin_united_nations

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1.2 Directory Skin

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A directory may be mapped on to a particular skin, so all documents within that directory take on a particular appearance. If a skin exists in the skin/dir with the same name as the document directory, it will automatically be used for each of the documents in that directory, (except where a document specifies the use of another skin, in the skin/doc directory).

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A personal habit is to place all skins within the doc directory, and symbolic links as needed from the site, or dir directories as required.

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1.3 Site Skin

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A site skin, modifies the program default skin.

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1.4 Sample Skins

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With SiSU installed sample skins may be found in:

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/etc/sisu/skin/doc and /usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/dfsg/_sisu/skin/doc

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(or equivalent directory) and if sisu-markup-samples is installed also under:

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/usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/non-free/_sisu/skin/doc

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Samples of list.yml and promo.yml (which are used to create the right column list) may be found in:

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/usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/dfsg/_sisu/skin/yml (or equivalent directory)

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Output generated by SiSU 0.59.0 2007-09-23 (2007w38/0)
SiSU Copyright ^© Ralph Amissah 1997, current 2007. All Rights Reserved.
SiSU is software for document structuring, publishing and search,
www.jus.uio.no/sisu and www.sisudoc.org
w3 since October 3 1993 ralph@amissah.com

SiSU using:
Standard SiSU markup syntax,
Standard SiSU meta-markup syntax, and the
Standard SiSU object citation numbering and system, (object/text positioning system)
Copyright ^© Ralph Amissah 1997, current 2007. All Rights Reserved.

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