On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:29 PM, zhuo fu <[email protected]> wrote: > While i am trying to make course template i come up with the following 3 > questions. (background info: I am trying to run git on windows and teach my > lesson on windows, and I am at the very beginner level.) > > 1 In the course template instruction it said "do not fork the rep directly > on github" anybody know why?
Making the fork on github would show it as a child of the lesson template. You probably don't want to make a new course template, but a new course on a specific topic (e.g. using git, or using Python). > 2, what is "make preview"? ( I type it in powershell which is the windows > version of shell and git bash. Nether of them recognized this commend.) It means running the Unix tool make, which will (by default) read a file called Makefile (case sensitive) for instructions, in this case the Makefile would define what to do for "preview". Usually used for compiling software, here make is used to compile the markdown lesson template into HTML. You can certainly install make on Windows (e.g. using cygwin) but I don't know what the Software Carpentry recommendation is for use with git bash under Windows. > 3, I installed pandoc on windows and run it through powershell. The > instruction said after finish editing, hit Ctrl-Z . You should text > converted to HTML! But mine show ^z inside pandoc after I hit > Ctrl+Z instead of HITML. Any idea why? Maybe another Windows versus Unix difference :( > > Many thanks for any answers. > Zhuo Sorry I can't give you more complete answers. Peter _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
