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title: "Glyph - Defining Custom Commands and Tasks"
content-type: page
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<nav class="navigation"><a href="/glyph/book/extending/further_reading.html">← Further Reading</a> | <a
		href="/glyph/book/index.html">Contents</a> | <a href="/glyph/book/extending/task.html">Defining Custom Tasks
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<p>In most cases, you can extend Glyph just by creating your own <a
		href="/glyph/book/extending/macro_def.html#macro_def">custom macros</a>. In some cases though, you may want to
	further customize Glyph to fit the needs of your project, in terms of creating <a
		href="/glyph/book/extending/command.html#custom_command">custom commands</a> and <a
		href="/glyph/book/extending/task.html#custom_task">custom tasks</a>.</p>
<p>Glyph&#8217;s modular architecture (and the Ruby language itself) lets you to add <em>arbitrary</em> functionality to
	its core, simply by creating a few Ruby files and putting them in the right places.</p>
<section class="section">
	<header>
		<h1 id="cmd_tasks_arch" class="toc">How Commands and Tasks work</h1>
	</header>
	<p>Before creating custom Glyph commands and tasks, you should have a basic understanding on how they work, and
		which commands &#8212; or better, which tasks &#8212; are already available.</p>
	<p>The following diagram outlines the relationships between the default commands and some tasks:</p>
	<figure><img src="/glyph/book/images/glyph/commands_tasks.png" />
		<figcaption>Some of Glyph default commands and tasks</figcaption>
	</figure>
	<p>As you can see:</p>
	<ul>
		<li>All commands call at at least one task.</li>
		<li>There are several task inter-dependencies spanning across three main Rake namespaces:
			<ul>
				<li><code>project:</code> &#8212; used for tasks affecting only the physical structure of the Glyph
					project.</li>
				<li><code>load:</code> &#8212; used to load all kinds of files.</li>
				<li><code>generate:</code> &#8212; used to generate files or copy files from source to output
					directories</li>
			</ul>
		</li>
	</ul>
	<aside class="box">
		<div class="box-title">Example</div>
		<p>Suppose you want to generate a <span class="caps">PDF</span> file by issuing the
			<code>glyph compile -f pdf</code> command. Under the hood, Glyph calls the following tasks:</p>
		<ol>
			<li><code>load:config</code> &#8212; Load the configuration files</li>
			<li><code>load:tasks</code> &#8212; Load custom tasks (if any)</li>
			<li><code>load:commands</code> &#8212; Load custom commands (if any)</li>
			<li><code>load:snippets</code> &#8212; Load snippets from the <code>snippet.yml</code> file</li>
			<li><code>load:macros</code> &#8212; Load macros</li>
			<li><code>load:all</code> &#8212; Dummy task used to call the previous ones</li>
			<li><code>generate:document</code> &#8212; Parse, analyze and finalize the Glyph document</li>
			<li><code>generate:images</code> &#8212; Copy images to the output directory (if any)</li>
			<li><code>generate:styles</code> &#8212; Copy stylesheets to the output directory (if necessary)</li>
			<li><code>generate:html</code> &#8212; Generate a standalone <span class="caps">HTML</span> file</li>
			<li><code>generate:pdf</code> &#8212; Generate a <span class="caps">PDF</span> file from a standalone <span
					class="caps">HTML</span> file</li>
		</ol>

	</aside>

</section>
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