Commands Reference

Appendix B: Flow of commands resolution

• Overview of building process
• Template, section and content file placeholders
• Content file structure and commands
• Config file tags
• Appendix A: Resolving target filenames
• Appendix B: Flow of commands resolution

This is how OSB works with sections:

1. When starting the build
• read all the template files, determine a main list of sections in order of appearence;
2. When entering new folder
• create target directory if it does not exist
• duplicate all the sections from a main list, store each one under its name in temporary list;
• scan all the sections in temporary list to find undefined sections and add them to the temporary list;
• repeat previous step until no new sections are found;
• all sections are recorded with the link to containing template;
3. When building particular content file
• create a local list of sections corresponding to given template;
• if .replace or .print commands provided in content files replace corresponding sections in local list in the order of appearance
• put content file text in template;
• for each section in local list put it in appropriate place in resulting template;
• apply macros in order of appearance;
• apply entities in order of appearance;
• apply variables;
• save the target file;
• clear local list of sections;