Document Generator for Netrunner Comprehensive Rules

This project is a document generator to convert a YAML description of rules into formatted outputs (such as pdf / html). You can view the example output of the github workflow action here.

Document Elements

The YAML contains several levels of structures to organize the rules.

Changelog

Contains the changelog entries. Entries can contain formatted text.

changelog:
- text: entry1
- text: entry2

Chapter

Defines a chapter (numbered with 1.).

chapter: chapter_id
text: Chapter Title
sections:
- section:
  ...
- section:
  ...

Section

Defines a section (numbered with 1.1.).

section: section_id
text: Formatted Section Title
toc_entry: (optional) alternate title for the table of contents (useful if the formatted title would break the toc)
snippet: (optional) snippet for the section
rules:
- rule:
  ...
- subsection:
  ...

Subsection

Defines a subsection (numbered with 1.1.1.).

subsection: subsection_id
text: Formatted Subsection Text
toc: (optional indicator whether this subsection should be added to the table of contents)
steps: (optional indicator whether this subsection and any subelements should be referred to as 'step')
examples:
- text: Formatted Example Text
rules:
- rule:
  ...
- rule:
  ...

Rule

Defines a rule. A rule can be under a section (numbered with 1.1.1.) or nested below a rule (numbered with a.).

rule: rule_id
text: Formatted Rule Text
examples:
- text: Formatted Example Text
- text: Formatted Example Text

Timing Structure

Timing structures can be added in the rules block of a section.

timing_structure:
elements:
- text: Step 1
  elements:
  - text: Step A
    elements:
    - text: Step Z
- text: Step 2

Formatted Text Syntax

References

Reference any identifier of a chapter, section, rule, or subrule.

{ref:ref_id}

A reference can contain a capital letter at the start, to indicate the reference text should be capitalized.

{ref:Ref_id}

Referencing multiple identifiers at once is possible with a ,.

{ref:ref_1,ref_2,ref_3}

If you want a different word than and to combine the reference, you can specify it after /.

{ref/through:ref_1,ref_2,ref_3}

Images

Embed an image in the document.

{img:img_name}

Terms

Indicates a game term.

{term:credits}

Subtype

Indicates a subtype.

{subtype:connection}

Card Reference

Indicates a card name.

{card:Fermenter}

Product Names

Indicates a product name.

{product:System Gateway}

Links

Indicates a link to a website.

{link:website|https://nullsignal.games}

Note on literal scalar style

The use of the literal scalar style of the YAML spec is useful to define literal text.

text: |-
  My text goes here.

Highlighting new parts of releases

Highlight a rule as new.

- rule:
  new:

Highlight a piece of text as new.

text: This is old text. {n}This is new text.{/n}