NLeSC knowledge website
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Create new Markdown file (.md) in
_books/
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Fill following FrontMatter properties
- title: Human readable name of book.
- url: Url of book (e.g. pdf or GitBook).
- cover: Url of cover image
- author: Author(s) of book
- date: Release date
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Fill main body with short description of book.
If you have a pdf of a book you can create an cover by coverting the first page using imagemagick:
convert book.pdf[0] book-cover.png
The website uses Jekyll powered Github pages.
To preview locally use docker:
docker run --rm --volume=$(pwd):/srv/jekyll -i -t -p 127.0.0.1:8080:80 jekyll/jekyll:pages
The website can be viewed on http://localhost:8080