basil.js

Development Environment Setup (OS X)

• Install Sublime Text 2
• Install Sublime package sublime-jsdocs
• Copy bin/InDesign 5.5 JavaScript.sublime-build to ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User
• In Sublime go to Project -> Open Project... and select basil.sublime-project
• In Sublime go to Tools -> Build Systems and select InDesign 5.5 JavaScript

Now you are able to execute InDesign Scripts from within Sublime with Tools -> Build.

Coding Conventions and Rules

basil.js uses "Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language" by Douglas Crockford with these modifications:

• The unit of indentation is two spaces

API Documentation

basil.js uses YUIDoc to document public API functionality. Installation and usage:

• Download and install Node.js
• Open up a terminal window and run "npm -g install yuidocjs"
• To generate the documetation in doc/api open up a terminal window and simply run "yuidoc ." in the basil.js project directory