Siv manual

A bar chart and a sequence diagram drawn by siv, and the few lines of text that make the bar chart
A bar chart and a sequence diagram drawn by siv, and the few lines of text that make the bar chart

Siv turns folders of Markdown into a website. This manual goes from an empty folder to a published site, one step at a time.

You'll also learn the handy extras: charts from a few lines of text, checks in your editor while you write, and moving a page without breaking its old address.

All of this is also available in siv itself, without a network connection: 'siv help'.

Contents # ↑

  1. Getting started: your first article in the browser, in five minutes
  2. Writing with Markdown: text, lists, links, code and tables
  3. Images: photos with captions, layouts and sizes
  4. Charts and diagrams: bar, line and stack charts from text
  5. Pages, folders and addresses: front matter, dates, links and moving pages
  6. Lists, tags and the feed: the front page, tag pages, feeds and languages
  7. Changing the look: colors, fonts, dark mode, templates and HTML
  8. Publishing: copying the site to a server
  9. Checks and explanations: error messages and what they mean
  10. Editors: checks while you write, images and Tab completion
  11. Reference: every command, setting and front matter key

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