gitbook安装与使用

Posted by Longniao's Blog on April 25, 2016

gitbook安装


1.安装npm

从网站 https://nodejs.org/#download 下载node.js源代码(点击绿色的INSTALL),解压

./configure
make  
make install

成功执行后,npm就被安装好了。

2.gitbook 安装

npm install -g gitbook-cli  
gitbook -V  

查看gitbook是否安装成功。

gitbook使用


1.根据目录生成图书结构

1.1 README.md 与 SUMMARY编写

README.md
这个文件相当于一本Gitbook的简介。

$ mkdir test_gitbook  
$ touch README.md  

SUMMARY.md 这个文件是一本书的目录结构,使用Markdown语法,如我们这本书的SUMMARY.md:

$ touch SUMMARY.md  
$ vim SUMMARY.md  

输入

* [简介](README.md)  
* [第一章](chapter1/README.md)  
- [第一节](chapter1/section1.md)  
- [第二节](chapter1/section2.md)  
* [第二章](chapter2/README.md)  
- [第一节](chapter2/section1.md)  
- [第二节](chapter2/section2.md)  
* [结束](end/README.md)  

1.2 生成图书结构

当这个目录文件创建好之后,我们可以使用Gitbook的命令行工具将这个目录结构生成相应的目录及文件:

$ gitbook init  
$ tree . <span style="white-space:pre"></span> #查看建立的目录和文件  
.  
├── chapter1  
│ ├── README.md  
│ ├── section1.md  
│ └── section2.md  
├── chapter2  
│ ├── README.md  
│ ├── section1.md  
│ └── section2.md  
├── end  
│ └── README.md  
├── README.md  
└── SUMMARY.md  

我们可以看到,gitbook给我们生成了与SUMMARY.md所对应的目录及文件。

每个目录中,都有一个README.md文件,相当于一章的说明。

2.生成图书

2.1 输出为静态网站

你有两种方式输出一个静态网站:

2.1.1 本地预览时自动生成

当你在自己的电脑上编辑好图书之后,你可以使用Gitbook的命令行进行本地预览:

$ gitbook serve .  

然后浏览器中输入 http://localhost:4000 就可以预览生成的以网页形式组织的书籍。

这里你会发现,你在你的图书项目的目录中多了一个名为_book的文件目录,而这个目录中的文件,即是生成的静态网站内容。

使用build参数生成到指定目录与直接预览生成的静态网站文件不一样的是,使用这个命令,你可以将内容输入到你所想要的目录中去:

$ mkdir /tmp/gitbook  
$ gitbook build --output=/tmp/gitbook  

2.2 输出PDF

输入为PDF文件,需要先使用NPM安装上gitbook pdf:

$ sudo npm install gitbook-pdf -g

我在执行上面这条命令的时候出现了下面的错误:

***************************************************  
Downloading http://cdn.bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-i686.tar.bz2  
Saving to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gitbook-pdf/node_modules/phantomjs/phantomjs/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-i686.tar.bz2  
Error: connect ETIMEDOUT  
at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)  
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1010:19)  
npm ERR! Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae  
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "gitbook-pdf" "-g"  
npm ERR! node v0.12.7  
npm ERR! npm v2.11.3  
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE  

npm ERR! phantomjs@1.9.7-5 install: `node install.js`  
npm ERR! Exit status 1  
npm ERR!  
npm ERR! Failed at the phantomjs@1.9.7-5 install script 'node install.js'.  
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the phantomjs package,  
npm ERR! not with npm itself.  
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:  
npm ERR! node install.js  
npm ERR! You can get their info via:  
npm ERR! npm owner ls phantomjs  
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.  

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:  
npm ERR! /home/wangxq/repository/phantomjs/npm-debug.log  

***************************************************

由错误报告内容的第一行可以知道,发生错误的原因是下载phantomjs发生了错误,因此我们需要手动下载和安装。

解决方法:[1]

$ git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git  
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ flex bison gperf ruby perl \  
libsqlite3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libicu-dev libfreetype6 libssl-dev \  
libpng-dev libjpeg-dev python libx11-dev libxext-dev #安装编译需要的工具和依赖  
$ cd phantomjs  
$ git checkout 1.9.7 #注意:这里的1.9.7是phantom的版本号,可以由错误报告的第一行找出  
$ ./build.sh --jobs 4  
$ sudo cp bin/phantomjs /bin/  
$ sudo npm install gitbook-pdf -g #重新进行安装  

然后,使用下面的命令,要PDF文件,首先安装依赖库:

$ sudo apt-get install calibre  
$ gitbook -v 2.1.0 pdf .

发生错误

info: start conversion to pdf ....ERROR  

Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c ebook-convert /tmp/tmp-29384ctltwbk/SUMMARY.html /tmp/tmp-29384ctltwbk/index.pdf --title="" --comments="这本书是gitbook的一个例子" --language="en" --book-producer="GitBook" --publisher="GitBook" --chapter="descendant-or-self::*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' book-chapter ')]" --chapter-mark="pagebreak" --page-breaks-before="/" --level1-toc="descendant-or-self::*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' book-chapter-1 ')]" --level2-toc="descendant-or-self::*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' book-chapter-2 ')]" --level3-toc="descendant-or-self::*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' book-chapter-3 ')]" --no-chapters-in-toc --max-levels="1" --breadth-first --margin-left="62" --margin-right="62" --margin-top="56" --margin-bottom="56" --pdf-default-font-size="12" --pdf-mono-font-size="12" --paper-size="a4" --pdf-header-template="<p class='header'><span></span></p>" --pdf-footer-template="<p class='footer'><span>_SECTION_</span> <span style='float:right;'>_PAGENUM_</span></p>"  
Usage: ebook-convert input_file output_file [options]  

Convert an ebook from one format to another.  

input_file is the input and output_file is the output. Both must be specified as the first two arguments to the command.  

The output ebook format is guessed from the file extension of output_file. output_file can also be of the special format .EXT where EXT is the output file extension. In this case, the name of the output file is derived the name of the input file. Note that the filenames must not start with a hyphen. Finally, if output_file has no extension, then it is treated as a directory and an "open ebook" (OEB) consisting of HTML files is written to that directory. These files are the files that would normally have been passed to the output plugin.  

After specifying the input and output file you can customize the conversion by specifying various options. The available options depend on the input and output file types. To get help on them specify the input and output file and then use the -h option.  

For full documentation of the conversion system see  
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html  

Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-convert that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.  

ebook-convert: error: no such option: --pdf-default-font-size  

解决方法[2]

$ sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"  

$ gitbook -v 2.1.0 pdf . # 重新执行命令生成pdf,目标文件为book.pdf  

ref

  • http://phantomjs.org/build.html
  • http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

问题

  • 如果输入gitbook init命令,出现Installing version 2.1.0,需要耐性等待安装。