.TH "WEBGEN" 1 "February 2007"
.SH NAME
webgen \- a template based static website generator
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B webgen
[\fIglobal options\fR]
\fIcommand\fR
[\fIcommand arguments\fR] [command [command arguments] ...] [args]
.SH DESCRIPTION
webgen is used to generate web pages from page and template files.
You create one template file in which you define the layout of your pages and
where the content should go. After that you create page files in which you only
define the content. webgen merges the page's content into the template and
generates the final HTML output.
.SH GLOBAL OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-directory DIR
Set the website directectory. if none specified, the current directory is used.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-verbosity level
Set verbosity to the given \fIlevel\fR.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show generic help.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-version
Show the version of the program and exit.
.SH COMMANDS
.TP
\fBcheck\fR
Executes \fBcheck command\fR by default.
.TP
\fBcheck config\fR
Checks validity of configuration file.
.TP
\fBcheck libs\fR
Checks presence of optional libraries.
.TP
\fBcreate\fR
Creates the basic directories and files for webgen.  This includes the
source and output directories, the log and the plugin directory.  Also, a
basic template plus a CSS and an index file are created.
Takes the \fIdirectory\fR to create the webgen structure in as an argument.
.TP
\fBhelp\fR
Provides help for the individual commands.
.TP
\fBrun\fR
Runs webgen which will result in the generation of the HTML data
in the output directory from the files in the source directory.
This command is used as the default command when no command was issued.
.TP
\fBshow\fR
Shows all available plugins or their configuration items.
Takes either \fIconfig\fR or \fIplugins\fR as an argument.
.TP
\fBuse\fR
Changes configured gallery style, sipttra or website style. Takes either
\fIgallery_style\fR, \fIsipttra_style\fR or \fIwebsite_style\fR as an argument
plus the gallery, sipttra or website style name you want to configure.
.TP
\fBversion\fR
Shows the version of the program and exit.
.SH SEE ALSO
The webgen website, http://webgen.rubyforge.org/ for more information.
.SH AUTHOR
webgen was written by Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@gmx.at>
.PP
This manual page was written by Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org>
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
This manual page was update to reflect webgen 0.4 change by Arnaud Cornet
<arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
This manual page was updated to reflect webgen 0.4.2 changes by
Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@gmx.at>.