This is my revision of the BARGE rulebook intended for a multi-author audience.

This is an attempt to produce readable input text and HTML (and someday, PDF) from one set of documents that is easy to maintain.

Markdown is an easy-to-edit but subtly ambiguous format that has become popular. This format has a few things going for it: it reads as text, so the input format is readable and looks great in email; it renders to HTML well and supports links; and it can be turned into LaTeX, which renders well on a printed page.

In order to make this acceptable in terms of text representation, I've used Github-Flavored Markdown, which allows for tables, footnotes, and other niceities. Fortunately, these seem to work very well with mdbook.

TBD: A nice PDF version with functional page numbers should be doable, but I haven't figured out the easiest path for it yet. (A minor complication is that suit characters, and some other Unicode things, appear in the text. Some TeX derivatives aren't believers in Unicode yet, so some of the tools don't "just work").

Install mdbook. mdbook build will do it.

Or, make should do it, too.

Nice printed version: Unsolved. Markdown can easily be translated to LaTeX. There are several tools that do this well. Unfortunately I have chosen to use Unicode instead of things that predate Unicode. I'm hoping a hyperlinked document is more useful than page numbers.

Markdown is deeply ambiguous. This tries to stick to GitHub-flavored Markdown which allows for footnotes, tables, and triple-quote "code" blocks that are occasionally useful for rudimentary diagrams.

mdbook is required. This is available if Rust is installed. If you are running on something like Debian Linux, you'll need a recent Rust to build mdbook.