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@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ files and a python3 script to generate the target postscript files. .. _jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/ .. _yaml: http://yaml.org/ +Pregenerated PDFs for many designs are `published on my website +<https://www.trueelena.org/computers/scripts/graph_paper_in_postscript.html>`_ + Instructions ------------ @@ -61,7 +64,37 @@ some of the dependencies needed by the further steps. Customizing ~~~~~~~~~~~ -TODO +Every design is described by a file in the ``designs`` directory; +filenames should end with the paper format (currently ``a4``, ``a5`` or +``a6``) followed by ``.yaml`` to support proper pdf generation from the +makefile. + +These files have the following fields. + +``template``: + selects one of the postscript templates in the ``src`` directory. +``paper``: + selects one of the paper definitions from ``conf/paper``. +``margins``: + selects one of the margin definitions from ``conf/margins``. +``theme``: + selects one of the theme definitions from ``conf/themes``. +``settings``: + selects one set of further, template specific, settings from + ``conf/settings/<theme name>``. +``override``: + this is a dict which can be used to override any value from one of + the files above. + +The files in ``conf/*`` define the actual variables used in the jinja2 +templates; as the names suggests ``paper``, ``margings`` and ``themes`` +are common variables used in most templates, while the ones in the +``settings`` subdirectories are specific to the template of the same name. + +The recommended way to customize a design or create a new one is to +start by customising the values in the ``override`` dict in the +``design/*.yaml`` file(s), and not to change the files in ``conf/`` but, +if needed, create new ones. License |