About

This is the documentation for PCGen.

The original documentation, in HTML format, has been converted to Markdown, which is much easier to edit.

The Markdown-formatted text is compiled using Hugo, an excellent "static site generator". The output is a complete HTML website which can be browsed from a hard drive, or uploaded to a webserver.

Instructions

1. Install Hugo:

   • Hugo Docs - Installing Hugo

2. Install git:

   • git downloads
   • git Handbook - Getting Started - Installing git.

3. Download a copy ("clone") of the pcgen-docs repository to your computer.

   • i.e. to make a copy to C:/pcgen-docs/, you would do:

     git clone --recursive https://github.com/PCGen/pcgen-docs.git C:/pcgen-docs/

     Note the --recursive option is required to download the website theme, which is a "sub-module" of the main repository.

4. Start the Hugo test server:

   • Go to the directory where you cloned the pcgen-docs repository:

     cd G:/pcgen-docs

   • Run Hugo in server mode:

     hugo server

   • Open a web browser to http://localhost:1313

   • Try changing a file in content/. Your web browser will automatically refresh, showing the changes!

5. Compile the website, ready to upload to a webserver, or to include with PCGen:

   • Go to the directory where you cloned the pcgen-docs repository:

     cd G:/pcgen-docs

   • Run Hugo, putting the output into folder G:/compiled-website:

     hugo --stepAnalysis -d G:/compiled-website/

     The --stepAnalysis shows you how long each step took (in seconds), and how much RAM was used.

   • Find G:/compiled-website/index.html and double click it. It will open in a web browser. It should look exactly the same as the test server!