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Marginalia
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*ultra-lightweight literate programming[1] for clojure inspired by [docco](http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/)*
Marginalia is a source documentation too that parses Clojure code and outputs an side-by-side source view with appropriate comments and docstrings aligned.
To get a quick look at what marginalia output looks like:
1. `git clone https://github.com/fogus/marginalia.git`
2. `open ./marginalia/example-output/uberdoc.html` (or [look here](http://fogus.me/fun/marginalia/))
Usage
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Currently Marginalia can be used in a number of ways as described below.
### Command Line
You can download the [Marginalia 0.2.3 jar including packaged dependencies from Github](https://github.com/downloads/fogus/marginalia/marginalia-0.2.3-standalone.jar).
Running Marginalia given the jar file linked above is as easy as:
java -jar marginalia-0.2.3-standalone.jar
This will search the `PWD` for a `src` directory which it will then traverse looking for Clojure source files to parse and generate documentation for. Marginalia also takes specific locations and files to generate docs for:
java -jar marginalia-0.2.3-standalone.jar <file1> <file2> ... <filen>
Arguments can be specific files or directories.
### Leiningen
To use Marginalia in your own projects simply add the following to your `project.clj` file in the `:dev-dependencies` section:
[marginalia "0.2.3"]
After executing `lein deps` you can generate your complete source documentation with the following command:
lein marg
Marginalia accepts other options as outlined in the *Command Line* section above.
### Cake
TBD
### Maven
Not yet supported.
Contributors and thanks
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I would like to thank Zachary Kim for taking a pile of incoherant code and making it something worth using. Marginalia would be nothing without his hard work and vision.
I would also like to thank Justin Balthrop and Brenton Ashworth for their support and code contributions.
TODO
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* paragraph anchors
* options for non-uber-docs
* new docstring/comment reader
* Maven generation support
* POM parsing
License
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Copyright (C) 2010 Fogus
Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.
Notes
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[1] While the phrase *ultra-lightweight literate programming* is used to describe Marginalia, it is in no way a tool for classical literate programming. That is, Marginalia is a linear documentation generator allowing no out-of-order reassembly of source.