Chapter 2. Publican defaults
Users can set their own default values for Publican in ~/.publican.cfg. Currently, Publican supports the following values:
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firstname
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surname
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email
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formats
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lang
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langs
Note
This file is completely different to publican.cfg that is used to build a book. It does not accept the same parameters.
Section 2.1. Publican default examples
Users can set formats, lang, and langs to their standard build parameters.
Setting formats and lang
$ echo 'formats: "html,html-single,pdf,txt"' >> ~/.publican.cfg $ echo 'langs: "en-US"' >> ~/.publican.cfg $ publican build Setting up en-US [...] Finished txt
Publican 3.0 allows you to add a revision history entry from the command line. You can set your user details in ~/.publican.cfg.
Setting user details
$ echo 'firstname: "Dude"' >> ~/.publican.cfg $ echo 'surname: "McPants"' >> ~/.publican.cfg $ echo 'email: "dude.mcpants@awesome.com"' >> ~/.publican.cfg $ publican add_revision --member "Updated examples in chapter 2." \ --member "Removed obsolete example in sect 4.1"