Setting up Metanorma

To build documents with Metanorma, you need to have the Metanorma command-line toolchain installed.

The toolchain consists of metanorma-cli Ruby gem and its dependencies.

In general, these installation methods are recommended.

Platform-specific methods:

Platform-independent methods:

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Full manual

Assuming you know what you’re doing, you can manually install the metanorma-cli gem. You will have to take care of dependencies: an appropriate Ruby version, plus other software depending on the end documents you’re building.

Refer to Metanorma CLI installation docs for details.

macOS

Using Homebrew

brew tap metanorma/metanorma
brew install metanorma

or

brew install metanorma/metanorma/metanorma

Linux

Using Snap

The easiest way is to install the Metanorma Snap with a single command:

sudo snap install metanorma

If snapd isn’t available on your distribution, use the all-in-one install script described below for various platforms. You will need to have curl installed beforehand.

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 For details, please see the metanorma-linux-setup repository.

Install script for Ubuntu

The curl command must be installed.

sudo bash -c "curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/metanorma-linux-setup/master/ubuntu.sh | bash"
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/metanorma-linux-setup/master/install-gems.sh | bash

Install script for CentOS

The curl command must be installed.

sudo bash -c "curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/metanorma-linux-setup/master/centos.sh | bash"
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/metanorma-linux-setup/master/install-gems.sh | bash

Windows

Using Chocolatey

To install chocolatey follow these instructions

Execute the following in your cmd.exe or PowerShell to install the Metanorma Chocolatey package:

choco install metanorma -y
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For LaTeX processing, a UTF-8 compatible command line interface is necessary. If you are using the Windows default command line interpreter cmd.exe, please do run chcp 65001 before using Metanorma.
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See the blog post on Metanorma Chocolatey package for more background.

Docker setup

This setup method works for all platforms that support the Docker container framework.

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This method is the recommended way of getting Metanorma installed.

Possible reasons to avoid this method:

  • Performance. Using Metanorma inside Docker container may be a bit slower.

  • Building PDF deliverables. Due to a pending bug (see metanorma-docker#42), building in PDF doesn’t currently work with Metanorma in Docker.

  1. Pull the container:

    docker pull metanorma/metanorma

  2. Specify the :local-cache-only: AsciiDoc attribute in document header to speed up rendering (optional)

To render the document into HTML, Word and XML, execute from within the directory containing the Metanorma document (replacing {my-document-path} with your actual document’s filename):

Running the Metanorma container on macOS and Linux
docker run -v "$(pwd)":/metanorma/ -w /metanorma metanorma/metanorma metanorma compile -t {flavor} -x {output-formats} {my-document-path}
Running the Metanorma container on Windows
docker run -v "%cd%":/metanorma/ -w /metanorma metanorma/metanorma metanorma compile -t {flavor} -x {output-formats} {my-document-path}
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See metanorma-docker for more information.

Installing gems separately

See Metanorma CLI docs on how to install the Ruby gem on its own.