Get Started with Metanorma

Prefer a guided course? The Learn Metanorma tutorial walks through the same steps — and more — lesson by lesson.

1. Install Metanorma

The fastest way to get started is with Docker:

docker pull metanorma/metanorma

For native installation and other options, see the Installation Guide.

Create a file called my-standard.adoc:

= My First Standard
Author Name

== Introduction

This is my first Metanorma document.

== Scope

This document covers ...

Compile to HTML and PDF:

metanorma compile -t iso -x html,pdf my-standard.adoc

This produces my-standard.html and my-standard.pdf.

The -t flag selects the target standards organization (the “flavor”). Common flavors include:

See the flavors page for the complete list.