259 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Guillaume Gomez
4fb9ea9bb3 Merge pull request #3141 from hollow-owl/invalid-default-theme
Invalid default-theme and preferred-dark-theme now cause an error
2026-09-07 16:47:11 +00:00
Daniel Scherzer
65fae9c1b9 Prepare to rename primary branch to main 2026-09-03 12:33:15 +02:00
Alex Chen
022efd9583 docs(guide): document quoted include paths for names with spaces 2026-09-01 21:41:15 +00:00
Noah Lev
54e4f3bf6d Merge pull request #3194 from GuillaumeGomez/zoomable-images-support
Add new `zoomable-images` config
2026-08-26 18:30:28 +00:00
Guillaume Gomez
9458fe14f1 Add new zoomable-images config 2026-08-26 20:13:44 +02:00
Guillaume Gomez
07029d974b Merge pull request #3179 from DanielEScherzer/backends-link
renderers.md: link to backends section of plugins page
2026-08-18 12:42:45 +00:00
Guillaume Gomez
a8f7b8dacc Merge pull request #3183 from DanielEScherzer/for-developers-intro-list
for_developers/README.md: clean up introduction
2026-08-17 11:45:47 +00:00
Guillaume Gomez
44bcb76c12 Merge pull request #3182 from DanielEScherzer/mdbook-missing-period
format/mdbook.md: add missing period
2026-08-17 09:23:45 +00:00
Guillaume Gomez
e12626a132 Merge pull request #3180 from DanielEScherzer/index-hbs-list-periods
index-hbs.md: add some missing periods
2026-08-17 09:19:32 +00:00
Guillaume Gomez
3c2be53cf5 Merge pull request #3181 from DanielEScherzer/patch-1
syntax-highlighting.md: update language about theme improvements
2026-08-17 09:19:13 +00:00
Guillaume Gomez
39f1519775 Merge pull request #2782 from GuillaumeGomez/copy-paste-guide-icon
Use the correct icon in the mdbook guide for the copy-paste icon
2026-08-15 21:31:35 +00:00
Daniel Scherzer
77bb660968 for_developers/README.md: clean up introduction
Given that there are multiple ways listed, use "are" rather than "is";
introduce with list of options with a colon rather than with "via" and a comma.
2026-08-05 13:03:46 -07:00
Daniel Scherzer
73aef16af0 format/mdbook.md: add missing period 2026-08-05 12:59:51 -07:00
Daniel Scherzer
d709ca3792 syntax-highlighting.md: update language about theme improvements
Given that the project has multiple contributor, replace "I will" (where the
speaker is unclear) with "the team will".
2026-08-05 12:58:32 -07:00
Daniel Scherzer
fa5dcc3800 index-hbs.md: add some missing periods
In the "Data" section most list items ended with periods - adjust the ones
missing periods
2026-08-05 12:52:24 -07:00
Daniel Scherzer
26b8a347bd renderers.md: link to backends section of plugins page 2026-08-05 12:46:59 -07:00
Eric Huss
0e5ddf6cce Merge pull request #3154 from ehuss/ci-version-string
Show the correct version in CI install docs
2026-07-06 14:38:54 +00:00
Eric Huss
f4ddbff24a Show the correct version in CI install docs
This fixes the version shown in the CI install docs when installing from
source by using the preprocessor similar to the prebuilt install docs.
2026-07-06 07:32:07 -07:00
Guillaume Gomez
beab2fa604 Mention zoom-in feature in mdbook guide 2026-07-02 23:09:37 +02:00
hollow-owl
a15cea74d0 Invalid default-theme and preferred-dark-theme now cause an error 2026-06-20 12:57:53 -05:00
지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel) Maslowski
b096ad10a0 Recommend linkcheck2 fork
With the addition of admonitions in 0.5.0, linkcheck broke, and the PR to fix
 it has been open for a good while. See:
- <https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/mdbook-linkcheck/pull/98>
- <https://github.com/jontze/action-mdbook/issues/671>

Signed-off-by: 지지 ᚠד (Jiji Freya Daniel) Maslowski <info@orangecms.org>
2026-06-08 09:05:43 -07:00
Tuyen Pham
cc6932e325 Fix download URL format for mdBook in CI guide 2026-04-23 08:56:14 -07:00
Lucas Pickering
9eb6fe0483 Fix link for parse_input() in preprocessors.md
This doc still referenced `CmdPreprocessor::parse_input`, which was removed in 0.5. Now it's just `mdbook_preprocessor::parse_input`.
2025-12-01 18:40:55 -05:00
Eric Huss
8571d70b52 Update the documentation for Font Awesome
This updates the documentation to try to improve the Font Awesome
support.
2025-11-19 16:15:53 -08:00
Eric Huss
2afad43bdd Add error handling to env config handling
This adds several changes to how environment variables are handled to
more closely align with how configs are handled, and to fix an issue
with replacing entire tables. The changes are:

- Top-level tables like `MDBOOK_BOOK` now *replace* the contents of the
  `book` table instead of merging it. This adds consistency with how all
  the other environment objects work.
- Fixed allowing top-level replacement of `MDBOOK_BOOK` and
  `MDBOOK_OUTPUT`. This was inadvertently recently broken.
- Added ability to replace top-level `MDBOOK_RUST`. I don't recall why
  that wasn't included.
- Reject invalid keys like `MDBOOK_FOO`.
- Reject unknown keys, like `MDBOOK_BOOK='{"xyz": 123}'`
- Reject invalid types, like `MDBOOK_BOOK='{"title": 123}'`
2025-11-17 14:38:58 -08:00
Eric Huss
63c45cd879 Fix missing font-awesome icons in the guide
After the switch in https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1330, some
of the icons were renamed.
2025-11-06 06:48:03 -08:00
Eric Huss
5fafc3f1f6 Add link to output.html.definition-lists
I forgot to include this link in the description of definition lists.
2025-09-18 20:20:25 -07:00
Eric Huss
873e4fe40f Add support for admonitions
This enables the admonitions support from pulldown-cmark. This includes
a config option in case it causes problems with existing books.

I would like to make this extensible in the future, though I'm not sure
what that would look like. There's also some concerns with how this will
affect translations like mdbook-i18n-helpers, which we may need to work
out in a different way.

Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/2771
2025-09-18 19:54:20 -07:00
Eric Huss
ba4c3ed873 Add support for definition lists
This enables the definition lists support from pulldown-cmark.
This includes a config option in case it causes problems with existing
books.

Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/2770
2025-09-17 16:44:45 -07:00
Eric Huss
2b242494b0 Add a new HTML rendering pipeline
This rewrites the HTML rendering pipeline to use a tree data structure,
and implements a custom HTML serializer. The intent is to make it easier
to make changes and to manipulate the output. This should make some
future changes much easier.

This is a large change, but I'll try to briefly summarize what's
changing:

- All of the HTML rendering support has been moved out of
  mdbook-markdown into mdbook-html. For now, all of the API surface is
  private, though we may consider ways to safely expose it in the
  future.
- Instead of using pulldown-cmark's html serializer, this takes the
  pulldown-cmark events and translates them into a tree data structure
  (using the ego-tree crate to define the tree). See `tree.rs`.
- HTML in the markdown document is parsed using html5ever, and then
  lives inside the same tree data structure. See `tokenizer.rs`.
- Transformations are then applied to the tree data structure. For
  example, adding header links or hiding code lines.
- Serialization is a simple process of writing out the nodes to a
  string. See `serialize.rs`.
- The search indexer works on the tree structure instead of re-rendering
  every chapter twice. See `html_handlebars/search.rs`.
- The print page now takes a very different approach of taking the
  same tree structure built for rendering the chapters, and applies
  transformations to it. This avoid re-parsing everything again. See
  `print.rs`.
    - I changed the linking behavior so that links on the print page
      link to items on the print page instead of outside the print page.
- There are a variety of small changes to how it serializes as can be
  seen in the changes to the tests. Some highlights:
	- Code blocks no longer have a second layer of `<pre>` tags wrapping
      it.
    - Fixed a minor issue where a rust code block with a specific
      edition was having the wrong classes when there was a default
      edition.
- Drops the ammonia dependency, which significantly reduces the number
  of dependencies. It was only being used for a very minor task, and
  we can handle it much more easily now.
- Drops `pretty_assertions`, they are no longer used (mostly being
  migrated to the testsuite).

There's obviously a lot of risk trying to parse everything to such a low
level, but I think the benefits are worth it. Also, the API isn't super
ergonomic compared to say javascript (there are no selectors), but it
works well enough so far.

I have not run this through rigorous benchmarking, but it does have a
very noticeable performance improvement, especially in a debug build.

I expect in the future that we'll want to expose some kind of
integration with extensions so they have access to this tree structure
(or some kind of tree structure).

Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/1736
2025-09-16 20:26:35 -07:00
Eric Huss
3629e2c051 Add an iterator over chapters
This adds the `Book::chapters` iterator (and `for_each_chapter_mut`) to
iterate over non-draft chapters. This is a common pattern I keep
encountering, and I figure it might simplify things. It runs a little
risk that callers may not be properly handling every item type, but I
think it should be ok.
2025-09-15 07:11:19 -07:00
Eric Huss
3e673ce424 Switch from log to tracing
This switches to using the tracing crate instead of log. Tracing
provides a lot of nice features which we can take advantage of moving
forward.

This also adjusts the output fairly significantly. This includes:

- Switched the environment variable from RUST_LOG to MDBOOK_LOG.
- Dropped the timestamp. I experimented with various different time
  displays, but ultimately decided to omit it for now. I don't think
  I've ever found it to be useful, and it takes up a very significant
  amount of space. It could potentially be useful for basic profiling,
  but I think there are other, better mechanisms for that. We could
  consider leveraging tracing itself for doing some basic profiling
  (like using something like tracing-chrome).
- Dropped the target unless MDBOOK_LOG is set. The target tends to be
  pretty noisy, and doesn't really convey much information unless you
  are debugging or otherwise trying to adjust the log output.
- Added color.
- Slightly reworked the way the error cause trace is displayed.
- Slightly changed the way html5ever filtering is done, as well as add
  handlebars to the list since they both are very noisy. You can
  override this now by explicitly listing them as targets.

I still expect that mdbook will eventually change how it displays things
to the console, possibly switching away from tracing and printing things
itself. However, that is a larger project for the future.
2025-09-12 06:13:45 -07:00
Eric Huss
6dd8be2ab2 Use the helper for the CI version string
This uses the new guide-helper preprocessor to insert the version string
on the continuous integration guide page. This should make it easier to
bump new versions.
2025-09-03 15:07:26 -07:00
Eric Huss
29b71be0a5 Add the mdbook version to the first page of the guide
This displays the version of mdBook that the guide is for.
2025-09-03 15:06:33 -07:00
Guillaume Gomez
5386e9181b Use the correct icon in the mdbook guide for the copy-paste icon 2025-08-31 16:05:15 +02:00
Eric Huss
1b55d4a389 Add sidebar heading navigation
This adds dynamic navigation of headers of the current page in the
sidebar. This is intended to help the user see what is on the current
page, and to be able to more easily navigate it. The "current" header is
tracked based on the scrolling behavior of the user, and is marked with
a small circle. This includes automatic folding to help keep it from
being too unwieldy on a page with a lot of nested headers.

This includes the `output.html.sidebar-header-nav` option to disable it.

I'm sure there are tweaks, fixes, and improvements that can be made. I'd
like to get this out now, and iterate on it over time to make
improvements.
2025-08-27 14:44:12 -07:00
Eric Huss
6f3fac763c Enable hash-files by default
This enables the hash-files setting by default. We have been running it
for a while, and it seems most of the issues have been resolved. This
should help with more reliably loading content like the toc contents.
2025-08-26 16:25:49 -07:00
Eric Huss
800fb54aeb Rename Book.sections to Book.items
This renames the "sections" list to "items". In practice, this list has
contained more than just "sections" since parts were added. Also, the
rest of the code consistently uses the term "items", since the values it
contains are called `BookItem`s. Finally, the naming has always been a
little confusing to me.

This is a very disruptive change, and I'm not doing it lightly. However,
since there are a number of other API changes going into 0.5, I think
now is an ok time to change this.
2025-08-22 18:51:04 -07:00
Eric Huss
b8ad85c16f Enable smart-punctuation by default
This enables the smart-punctuation setting by default. The long term
plan is to continue to enable more markdown extensions by default across
semver breaking releases.
2025-08-22 16:52:08 -07:00
Eric Huss
c177081104 Change CLI dest-dir to be relative to the current directory
This changes the `--dest-dir` flag so that it is relative to the current
directory, not the book root. This has been a source of confusion for
several people.

Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/698
2025-08-18 16:28:08 -07:00
Eric Huss
b4641d2830 Remove test --dest-dir
This removes the `--dest-dir` flag from the `mdbook test` subcommand
because it is unused. The test command does not generate output, so it
doesn't need an output directory.
2025-08-18 16:15:18 -07:00
Eric Huss
e9e3bb6ddd Use consistent sentence case for section headers
There was a mix of different capitalization here, so I'm just going to
pick the one we use most often.
2025-08-16 14:59:05 -07:00
Eric Huss
d7892f5601 Add optional field for preprocessors
This adds the `optional` field to the preprocessor configuration to
mirror the same option for the `output` table. Missing preprocessors are
now an error unless the `optional` field is set. This should help with
inadvertently building a book when a missing preprocessor that you
expect to be installed.
2025-08-16 13:39:54 -07:00
Michael Howell
2dc8c5e686 Use embedded SVG instead of fonts for icons
The [downsides of icon fonts] are well-documented, and also, why ship all of
the icons when it only uses 14?

[downsides of icon fonts]: https://speakerdeck.com/ninjanails/death-to-icon-fonts
2025-08-14 20:14:55 -07:00
Eric Huss
ff5e85af51 Replace navigation helpers with objects
This replaces the `{{#previous}}` and `{{#next}}` handelbars helpers
with simple objects that contain the previous and next values. These
helpers have been a bit fussy to work with and have caused issues in the
past. This drops a large amount of somewhat fragile code with something
that is a bit simpler.

Additionally, this switches the previous/next arrows to use an `{{#if}}`
instead CSS trickery which may help with upcoming changes to
font-awesome.
2025-08-13 17:56:18 -07:00
Eric Huss
3e5ec749ba Remove copy-fonts
This removes the deprecated `output.html.copy-fonts` option. This was
deprecated in https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1987. The
behavior now is that the default fonts are copied over unless there is a
custom `theme/fonts/fonts.css` file.
2025-08-12 17:56:14 -07:00
Eric Huss
9ac0eb288a Remove curly-quotes
This removes the deprecated alias `curly-quotes` for
`smart-punctuation`.
2025-08-12 17:29:59 -07:00
Eric Huss
aef12bbb20 Remove google-analytics
This was deprecated in https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1675 in
2021.

Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/2720
2025-07-26 08:15:37 -07:00
Eric Huss
fad53f720f Update guide to accommodate crate split
This updates the docs now that the crate has been split into multiple
crates.
2025-07-23 17:47:31 -07:00
Eric Huss
d5a505e0c6 Update to Rust 2024 2025-07-23 17:29:12 -07:00