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@import template.nml
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@nav.previous = Index
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%<make_doc({}, "Getting Started", "Getting Started")>%
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# Building NML
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You need at least the nightly version of rustc to compile NML.
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Instruction for your operating system can be found on [Rust's website](https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/other-installation-methods.html).
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You'll also need liblua 5.4 installed. You can then move the `nml` executable in `target/release/nml` into your `\$PATH`
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``cargo build --bin nml`` or for release mode: ``cargo build --release --bin nml``
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# Building your first document
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* ``nml -i input.nml -o output.html``
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# Using the cache
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NML relies on sqlite to keep a cache of precompiled elements that take a long time to process (e.g $|[kind=inline] \LaTeX|$).
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To enable caching, use option `-d` with a path: ``-d cache.db``. You can reuse the same cache for multiple documents and benefit from cached elements.
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Note that in directory-processing mode, a cache is required so that only modified ``.nml`` files get reprocessed.
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# Directory-Processing mode
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To use directory-processing mode, you need to pass an input directory and an output directory. Directory-processing mode requires that you use a database, so that it knows which documents have already been compiled. If the output directory doesn't exist, it will be automatically created.
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Compiling the docs:
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``Plain Text,
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nml -i docs -o docs_out -d cache.db
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``
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If you modify an ``Plain Text,@import``ed file, you will need to use the ``--force-rebuild`` option, as NML currently doesn't track which files are imported by other files.
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