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Metanorma

Rendering a draft document

To render a draft that your peers should review, you need to add these metadata to the document header:

  • :draft:: Tells the compiler to display comments in the final output
  • :status: draft Defines the current document stage. NOTE: Some flavors, for example ISO, use :docstage: and a status code to indicate in what stage the document is.

To compile a Metanorma document you must enter the name of the application Metanorma and the document you want to compile document.adoc. 

Metanorma document.adoc

With this command you trigger the Metanorma toolchain to:

  • Read the AsciiDoc input
  • Convert it into XML
  • Check the XML against the document model (XML schema)
  • Create HTML, PDF, and DOC output

Practice time

:exercise-file: exercise-3-2 include::exercises.adoc[tags=intro;exercise-3-2]

Now that you are familiar with the simplest way of creating a Metanorma document, let's look at different ways to compile documents in the next lesson.

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