2018-06-05: Note that MkDocs now supports plugins that provide a better architecture for this task. I'll probably replace this project with a fork of shauser's plugin — Adam
mkdocs-combine
is a Python module that combines a MkDocs-style Markdown source site into a single Markdown document. This is useful for
- Generating PDF or EPUB from your MkDocs documentation
- Generating single-page HTML from your MkDocs documentation
- Converting your MkDocs documentation to other formats, such as asciidoc
The output Markdown document is compatible with pandoc.
This package is written in Python 2.7 and relies on mkdocs
and the Python Markdown
implementation. Aside from several filters, the module contains a MkDocsCombiner
class tying them together into a coherent whole, and the command-line tool mkdocscombine
.
mkdocs-combine
is maintained by Adam Twardoch. It's a fork of mkdocs-pandoc
by Johannes Grassler.
Note: The following instructions apply to both Unixoid systems and Windows.
If you'd like to use the development version, use
pip install git+https://github.com/twardoch/mkdocs-combine.git
Note that if you are behind a proxy, you might need to add the --proxy
option like this
pip --proxy=http[s]://user@mydomain:port install ...
If you'd like to install a local development version from the current path, use
pip install -e .
For generating PDF through pandoc
you will need to install a few things pip
won't handle, namely pandoc
and the somewhat exotic LaTeX packages its default LaTeX template uses. On a Ubuntu 14.04 system this amounts to the following packages:
fonts-lmodern
lmodern
pandoc
texlive-base
texlive-latex-extra
texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-xetex
On a Windows system you can get them through Chocolatey. Once you have Chocolatey up and running the following commands should leave you with everything you need to create PDF output from pandoc
:
choco install python
choco install pandocpdf
When executed in the directory where your documentation's mkdoc.yml
and the docs/
directory containing the actual documentation resides, mkdocscombine
should print one long Markdown document suitable for pandoc
on standard output. The tool also allows to output a long HTML file in addition to, or in place of the Markdown file.
usage: mkdocscombine [-h] [-V] [-o OUTFILE] [-f CONFIG_FILE] [-e ENCODING]
[-x EXCLUDE] [-H OUTHTML] [-y | -Y] [-c | -C] [-u | -k]
[-t | -g] [-G WIDTH] [-r | -R] [-a | -A] [-m | -l]
[-i IMAGE_EXT]
mkdocscombine.py - combines an MkDocs source site into a single Markdown
document
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-v, --verbose print additional info during execution
files:
-o OUTFILE, --outfile OUTFILE
write combined Markdown to path ('-' for stdout)
-f CONFIG_FILE, --config-file CONFIG_FILE
MkDocs config file (default: mkdocs.yml)
-e ENCODING, --encoding ENCODING
set encoding for input files (default: utf-8)
-x EXCLUDE, --exclude EXCLUDE
exclude Markdown files from processing (default: none)
-H OUTHTML, --outhtml OUTHTML
write simple HTML to path ('-' for stdout)
structure:
-y, --meta keep YAML metadata (default)
-Y, --no-meta strip YAML metadata
-c, --titles add titles from mkdocs.yml to Markdown files (default)
-C, --no-titles do not add titles to Markdown files
-u, --up-levels increase ATX header levels in Markdown files (default)
-k, --keep-levels do not increase ATX header levels in Markdown files
-B, --no-page-break do not add page break between pages (default)
-b, --page-break add page break between pages
tables:
-t, --tables keep original Markdown tables (default)
-g, --grid-tables combine Markdown tables to Pandoc-style grid tables
-G WIDTH, --grid-width WIDTH
char width of converted grid tables (default: 100)
links:
-r, --refs keep MkDocs-style cross-references
-R, --no-refs replace MkDocs-style cross-references by just their
title (default)
-a, --anchors keep HTML anchor tags
-A, --no-anchors strip out HTML anchor tags (default)
extras:
-m, --math keep \( \) Markdown math notation as is (default)
-l, --latex combine the \( \) Markdown math into LaTeX $$ inlines
-i IMAGE_EXT, --image-ext IMAGE_EXT
replace image extensions by (default: no replacement)
-d, --admonitions-md convert admonitions to HTML already in the Markdown
cd ~/mydocs
mkdocscombine -o mydocs.pd
pandoc --toc -f markdown+grid_tables+table_captions -o mydocs.pdf mydocs.pd # Generate PDF
pandoc --toc -f markdown+grid_tables -t epub -o mydocs.epub mydocs.pd # Generate EPUB
The following things are known to be broken:
- Line wrapping in table cells will wrap links, which causes whitespace to be inserted in their target URLs, at least in PDF output. While this is a bit of a Pandoc problem, it can and should be fixed in this module.
- Internal Hyperlinks between markdown documents will be reduced to their link titles, i.e. they will not be links in the resulting Pandoc document.
- © 2015 Johannes Grassler [email protected]
- © 2017 Adam Twardoch [email protected]
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
You will also find a copy of the License in the file LICENSE
in the top level
directory of this source code repository. In case the above URL is unreachable and/or differs from the copy in this file, the file takes precedence.
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
- https://twardoch.github.io/markdown-rundown/ — summary of Markdown formatting styles git
- https://twardoch.github.io/markdown-steroids/ — Some extensions for Python Markdown git
- https://twardoch.github.io/markdown-utils/ — various utilities for working with Markdown-based documents git
- https://twardoch.github.io/mkdocs-combine/ — convert an MkDocs Markdown source site to a single Markdown document git
- https://github.com/twardoch/noto-mkdocs-theme/tree/rework — great Material Design-inspired theme for MkDocs git
- https://twardoch.github.io/clinker-mktheme/ — great theme for MkDocs git