Comics

This repo contains the webpage for translation and source images of the lianhuanhua comics.

Requirements

• Hugo (extended)
• pandoc

Installation

These steps are only required once, to install the requirements on your local machine:

brew install pandoc hugo

Getting the Sources

Before you can get local copy of the webpage up and running on your machine you need to clone this repo. The hugo-book theme is installed as a submodule.

git clone --recurse-submodules --remote-submodules https://github.com/readchina/comics.git

If you forgot to include the submodule flags when cloning the repo run the following:

git submodule update --init

within the submodule we are on the feature/prev-next branch

Building

To Build a local dev version run:

hugo server -D  

(-D will also build drafts)

You should see something like this:

                   | EN   
-------------------+------
  Pages            |  57  
  Paginator pages  |   0  
  Non-page files   |   0  
  Static files     | 218  
  Processed images |   0  
  Aliases          |  11  
  Sitemaps         |   1  
  Cleaned          |   0  

Built in 150 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/hal1000/Documents/GitHub/comics/{archetypes,content,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in /Users/hal1000/Documents/GitHub/comics/config.toml
Environment: "development"
Serving pages from memory
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop

The page is visible in your browser at http://localhost:1313/

Contents

As always avoid spaces in file or folder names: zhu fu/zhu fu Version 2022.md -> zhufu/zhufu.md. You must stick with the project layout of this repo. Contents go into content/docs/ folder. Create a new folder when adding a comic.

mkdir content/docs/new-comic

Text

Start by saving the word file in the folder you just created. Then use pandoc to convert the original document into markdown.

pandoc -s content/docs/new-comic/*.docx --wrap=none  -t markdown -o new-comic/new-comic.md

Each comic needs to be inside a top level folder using the translated title for the comic (no spaces), e.g. the-watch/_index.md. Each file is then split into:

• _index.md (contains the introduction and references)
• A-translation-notes.md
  • B-front-and-back-cover.md
  • B-frontmatter.md
  • B-page-XX.md

The basic template for a translation page is

---
title: Page XX
---

![biao front](./../../images/biao/seifert0726_biao_00ZZ_0XX.jpg)

{{< columns >}}

<!-- source -->

<--->

<!-- translation -->

{{< /columns >}}

Use regex to create the proper markup inside the full newcomic.md file.

To create empty template files:

touch B-page-{01..78}.md     

Then copy each page/panel into the new file.

Images

Images go inside a folder with the comic name inside static/images:

static
└── images
    ├── biao
    │   ├── seifert0726_biao_0001_0.jpg
    │   ├── seifert0726_biao_0003_0.jpg
    │   ├── …
    └── niqiu
        ├── seifert0397_nqkg_0001_0.jpg
        ├── seifert0397_nqkg_0003_0.jpg
        ├── …

To include images in your markdown use:

 ![biao cover](./../../../images/biao/seifert0726_biao_0001_0.jpg)

Deployment

Deployments is fully automated on GitHub Actions. In cases where you need to debug the build, run:

hugo

This will create a public/ folder containing the compiled webpage. You should delete this folder after debugging as Hugo will not remove its contents before subsequent builds.