remenska/knowledge.esciencecenter.nl

NLeSC knowledge website

knowledge.esciencecenter.nl

NLeSC knowledge website

Adding a Book

1. Create new Markdown file (.md) in _books/ directory.

2. 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

3. Fill main body with short description of book.

Generating cover image

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

Preview website

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