Conversion from old system to new

[dcroce]

@choldgraf

As we were talking about, I'd like to do a conversion to the new textbook system. I'd guess it's similar to the previous system of forking and then merging with our current repository, but just wanted to check with you if there was anything else I should be aware of?

Thanks,
Dominic

[choldgraf]

yeah that's pretty much all the same. The only differences are:

1. There are some different fields in _config.yml
2. The table of contents is now only in _data/toc.yml instead of being in SUMMARY.md and being converted
3. The book contents now live in contents/ rather than notebooks/
4. The outputs now go to _build/ rather than _ch

Those are the main differences I can think of but in general the process should be the same

[dcroce]

I did most of the merging in a personal repo to get things up to speed. I am running into an error when I try to make book as follows:

Can you take a look? It seems like my toc.yml might be of the wrong format but I can't quite identify the error. The repo is here

[choldgraf]

Hmm - can you double check that the whitespace all lines up properly (e.g. all the words within a page have to start at the same indentation etc). It might be yaml formatting problem

[dcroce]

It was a formatting issue. Thanks!

I am now getting the book to build, but when I make serve locally or try to host online the book does not show up as I am getting a 404 Site not found. Interestingly the local host forwards to the url I set the book to build to as opposed to a local host. Any ideas?

[choldgraf]

I bet it's because of the auto-forwarding of /. For some reason that plugin redirects you to the URL of the site instead of localhost. Can you try replacing the URL of the site with the localhost version?

[choldgraf]

I'm gonna close this one because I think that prob140/textbook#2 will resolve this problem...I'd love a pair of eyes on that PR if you've got a moment!