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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion docs/content/docs/features.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Chronicle is a self-hosted documentation platform built with Vite + Nitro.
## Content

- **MDX support** — write documentation in MDX with React component embedding
- **Frontmatter** — `title`, `description`, `order`, `icon`, `lastModified`
- **Frontmatter** — `title`, `short`, `description`, `identifiers`, `order`, `icon`, `lastModified`, `authors`, `draft`
- **Directory metadata** — `meta.json` for folder titles, ordering, and sidebar config
- **Remark plugins** — directives, admonitions, image resolution, link resolution, mermaid, reading time
- **Syntax highlighting** — powered by Shiki via Apsara CodeBlock
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Chronicle is a self-hosted documentation platform built with Vite + Nitro.

- **Default theme** — sidebar + content layout with sub-navigation bar
- **Paper theme** — book-style single-column with reading progress
- **Fanfold theme** — continuous-form line printer paper, monospace throughout
- **Dark/light mode** — system preference or manual toggle

## SEO & AI
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39 changes: 37 additions & 2 deletions docs/content/docs/frontmatter.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ The sidebar shows `SPP` and keeps the full title on the link's tooltip. Headings
breadcrumbs, the browser tab and search all keep using `title`. Pages that set no
`short` fall back to their title, so this is opt-in per page.

Honoured by the `fanfold` theme, whose rail is narrow enough to need it. The
`default` and `paper` themes ignore it and always show `title`.
Honoured by the `fanfold` theme, whose rail is narrow enough to need it, and by
its printed header, where the trail reads `Protocols / SPP` rather than the full
title. The `default` and `paper` themes ignore it and always show `title`.

### description

Expand All @@ -62,6 +63,27 @@ Optional meta description for the page. Used in SEO metadata.
description: Step-by-step installation instructions
```

### identifiers

Optional list of extra lines identifying the page — the standard it implements, a
package, a command. Each entry is printed as written, so the page decides both
the facts and their order.

```yaml
title: Space Packet Protocol
identifiers:
- CCSDS 133.0-B-2 * Space Packet Protocol
- pkg/spp * astro spp
```

Use it for pages whose readers already know them by something other than a title.
A theme cannot work these out for itself, which is why they live in the page.

Honoured by the `fanfold` theme, which prints them in its header block under the
breadcrumb trail. A page that sets none keeps the lines that theme derives on its
own — the site name, the section, and the page's path. The `default` and `paper`
themes ignore the field.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

for file in \
  packages/chronicle/src/lib/source.ts \
  packages/chronicle/src/cli/commands/static-generate.ts \
  packages/chronicle/src/themes/fanfold/Page.tsx
do
  echo "== $file =="
  rg -n -C 12 '\bidentifiers\b|frontmatter\s*:' "$file"
done

rg -n -C 12 'pages\.push|frontmatter\.identifiers|static' packages/chronicle/src

Repository: raystack/chronicle

Length of output: 50374

🏁 Script executed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

for file in \
  packages/chronicle/src/server/entry-static.tsx \
  packages/chronicle/src/lib/page-context.tsx \
  packages/chronicle/src/types.ts \
  packages/chronicle/src/themes/fanfold/Page.tsx
do
  echo "== $file =="
  rg -n -C 10 'pageDataUrl|frontmatter|Page\b|loadPage|data/pages|identifiers' "$file"
done

Repository: raystack/chronicle

Length of output: 12631

Preserve identifiers in static page data.

static-generate.ts omits identifiers when it rebuilds page frontmatter. entry-static.tsx passes this data to fanfold/Page.tsx, which then uses the site name and path fallback. A statically generated Fanfold page that sets identifiers therefore does not render them. Add identifiers: normalizeStringList(fm.identifiers) and keep both documentation statements aligned.

📍 Affects 2 files
  • docs/content/docs/frontmatter.mdx#L82-L85 (this comment)
  • docs/content/docs/themes.mdx#L80-L82
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@docs/content/docs/frontmatter.mdx` around lines 82 - 85, Update
static-generate.ts to preserve frontmatter identifiers by assigning
normalizeStringList(fm.identifiers), so entry-static.tsx and fanfold/Page.tsx
receive the configured values. Align the documentation in
docs/content/docs/frontmatter.mdx lines 82-85 and docs/content/docs/themes.mdx
lines 80-82 to describe this behavior consistently.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli.


### order

Controls the page's position in sidebar navigation. Lower numbers appear first.
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- Sam Patel
```

### draft

Set `draft: true` to keep a page out of the site. It is dropped from the
navigation tree, so it does not appear in the sidebar, in breadcrumbs, in search,
or in the previous/next links.

```yaml
draft: true
```

The file stays where it is, so this is the way to leave a page in the repository
while it is still being written.

A single author can be written without the list:

```yaml
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Expand Up @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ theme:
- Minimal, distraction-free design
- Reading progress tracking
- Optimized typography for long content
- Light mode only (dark mode toggle is disabled)
- Light and dark mode

## Fanfold Theme

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### Features

- Header block prints the breadcrumb trail, site name, path, and a page counter
- Header block prints the breadcrumb trail and a page counter, then whatever the
page gives as [`identifiers`](/docs/frontmatter) — falling back to the site
name and path
- Page title set in a dot-matrix face that steps down in size as titles get longer
- Code blocks print as ruled listings with a line-number gutter
- Tables print as field maps with no cell borders
- Everything on the sheet is held to one 80-column measure, so prose, tables,
code and rules share the same edges
- Code blocks print as ruled listings with a line-number gutter. A fence with no
language is treated as a drawing rather than a listing and gets no numbers, so
ASCII diagrams keep their own alignment
- Tables print as field maps with no cell borders. A wide table with a column of
prose in it has its columns measured at build time, and folds that column under
each row behind a toggle, so the paragraph reads at the full width of the sheet
instead of a narrow column
- Uses a page's [`short`](/docs/frontmatter) label in the rail and the header trail
- Its own landing page: a masthead over a register of every section
- Light and dark mode

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