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# Contributing to Catala
The project is open to external contributions, in the spirit of open source. If you want to open a pull request, please follow the instructions below.
To ask a question to the Catala team, please open an issue on this repository. If you want to contribute to the project on a longer-term basis, or if you have specific competences as a socio-fiscal lawyer or a programming language specialist, please email the authors at denis.merigoux@inria.fr. The Catala team meets over visioconference once in a week.
Please note that the copyright of this code is owned by Inria;
by contributing, you disclaim all copyright interests in favor of Inria. Both the code for the compiler and the examples in this repository are distributed under the Apache2 license.
## Writing Catala examples
### Setting up the machinery
This section describes what to do to setup a working directory for a new Catala example, as well as the development cycle. Let us suppose that you want to create a new example named `foo`.
First, follow the instructions of [the installation readme](INSTALL.md) to get the compiler up and working up to `make build`. You can also set up the syntax highlighting for your editor.
Then, create the directory `examples/foo`. In there, create a master source file `foo.catala` that will be the root of your Catala program. You can then start programming in `foo.catala`, or split up your example into multiple files. In the later case, `foo.catala` must only contain something like this:
```
@@Master file@@
@@Include: bar.catala@@
```
where `examples/bar.catala` is another source file containing code for your example. Make sure you start by including some content in the source files, like
```
Hello, world!
```
Now let's build the example, create a `Makefile` with the following contents:
```Makefile
CATALA_LANG=en # or fr if your source code is in French
SRC=foo.catala
include ../Makefile.common
```
The `include` creates automatically all the targets you will need for your example. For instance, after making sure the compiler is built, you can launch
```
make -C examples/foo foo.tex
```
from the repository root to create the LaTeX weaving output of your source program. `Hello, world!` should appear in there.
Finally, please add a rule for your example in the repository root `Makefile` in the section "Examples-related rules", following the pattern for other examples. This will ensure that
your example is built every time the compiler is modified; if a change in the compiler breaks your example, the authors will be notified and find a solution.
### Writing Catala code
Let us now present the typical Catala workflow. First, you need to locate the legislative text that you want to use as a reference. Then, simply copy-paste the text into your source file.
First you will have to format the copy-pasted text using Catala headings and articles markers:
```
@@Heading@@
@@Sub-heading (the more +, the less important)@@++
@Legislative atom@
```
Please look at the code of other examples to see how to format things properly. While formatting the text, don't forget regularly to try and parse your example using for instance
```
make -C examples/foo foo.tex
```
to see if you've made any syntax errors. Once the text formatting is done, you can start to annotate each legislative atom (article, provision, etc.) with some Catala code. To open up a code section in Catala, simply use
```
/*
# In code sections, comments start with #
scope Foo:
<your code goes here>
*/
```
While all the code sections are equivalent in terms of execution, you can mark some as "metadata" so that they are printed differently on lawyer-facing documents. Here's how it works:
```
@@Begin metadata@@ # @@Début métadonnées@@ en français
/*
declaration structure FooBar:
data foo content boolean
data bar content amount
<your structure/enumeration/scope declarations goes here>
*/
@@End metadata@@ # @@Fin métadonnées@@ en français
```
Again, make sure to regularly check that your example is parsing correctly. The error message from the compiler should help you debug the syntax if need be.
## Working on the compiler
The Catala compiler is a standard dune-managed OCaml project. You can look at the [online OCaml documentation](https://catala-lang.org/ocaml_docs/) for the different modules' interfaces.

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# Installing the Catala compiler
## Requirements
The Catala compiler is written using OCaml. To install OCaml on your machine and
if you're running Linux ou MacOS, open a terminal and enter :
./install_opam.sh
This will install `opam`, the OCaml dependency manager and the
base OCaml compiler. If you're on Windows, the simplest solution
would be to use Cygwin or the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Catala has been tested
with OCaml version 4.09.1. You can switch to this version by typing :
opam switch create 4.09.1
or
opam switch 4.09.1
if this version of OCaml is already installed. Next, install all the build
dependencies with
make install-dependencies
This should ensure everything is set up for developping on the Catala compiler !
Other features for generation of files and literate programming also require
the following executables to be present
man2html virtualenv python3 rsync
please install them if they're not here. On a Debian distribution, this can be
done with
sudo apt install python3-dev python3-setuptools man2html rsync
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
sudo python3 -m pip install virtualenv
On ArchLinux :
sudo pacman -S python-virtualenv man2html rsync
## Installation
The project is distributed as a Dune artifact. Use standard dune commands to build
and install the library. Makefile aliases are here to help you: running
make build
builds the compiler from its OCaml sources.
### Generating website assets
The Catala website features assets generated by the Catala compiler. They are
needed to build the website. To produce them, simply run from this repository's
root directory
./generate_website_assets.sh <path-to-catala-website>/assets
You will need the `man2html` executable to generate the HTML versions of the man
pages, as well as the `rsync` executable to transfer files (preferred to `cp`)
because it also works with a remote server.
### Opam package
If you want to install the library as an opam
package, use the following command at the root of the repository:
opam install ./
You can then can the compiler using the `catala` command.
## Usage
Use `catala --help` to get more information about the command line options available.
## Syntax highlighting
The Catala language also comes with syntax highlighting to
ease program development. The syntax highlighting is done
with the [Iro](https://eeyo.io/iro/) compiler that allows
writing the syntax only once, and then export it to formats
understood by various IDE. Currently, two syntax
highlighting plugins are under version control.
### Atom
To get Catala syntax highlighting in Atom, simply enter from
the root of the repository, depending on the language you want to use :
make atom_fr
or
make atom_en
You can now reload Atom and check that you have syntax highlighting on any `.catala` file.
### Pygments
Pygments is a Python-based versatile lexer for various
programming languages. To use a version of Pygments
augmented with the Catala plugin, simply enter
make pygments
This will execute the
script `syntax_highlighting/fr/pygments/set_up_pygments.sh` and `syntax_highlighting/en/pygments/set_up_pygments.sh`.
The scripts set up a virtual environement in
`syntax_highlighting/fr/pygments/pygments/env` or
`syntax_highlighting/en/pygments/pygments/env`, which will
contain the modified version of Pygments that has Catala
support. If you want to hack something, it is possible to use this virtual
environnement directly with
source syntax_highlighting/fr/pygments/pygments/env/bin/activate
or
source syntax_highlighting/en/pygments/pygments/env/bin/activate
The `pigmentize` executable, used for instance by the `minted` LaTeX package,
will now point to the Catala-enabled version inside the virtual environment.
This `source` setup is not necessary if you use the rules in the `Makefile`.

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To get that lawyer-readable version (which is a LaTeX-created) PDF, simply use
make allocations_familiales
make -C allocations_familiales allocations_familiales.pdf
from the repository root, once you have managed to install the
compiler (see below). You can then open `examples/allocations_familiales/allocations_familiales.pdf`
compiler using [the dedicated readme](INSTALL.md). You can then open `examples/allocations_familiales/allocations_familiales.pdf`
## Languages
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in the near future. This semantics will guide the compiler
implementation.
## The Catala compiler
## Installation
### Requirements
The Catala compiler is written using OCaml. To install OCaml on your machine and
if you're running Linux ou MacOS, open a terminal and enter :
./install_opam.sh
This will install `opam`, the OCaml dependency manager and the
base OCaml compiler. If you're on Windows, the simplest solution
would be to use Cygwin or the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Catala has been tested
with OCaml version 4.09.1. You can switch to this version by typing :
opam switch create 4.09.1
or
opam switch 4.09.1
if this version of OCaml is already installed. Next, install all the build
dependencies with
make install-dependencies
This should ensure everything is set up for developping on the Catala compiler !
Other features for generation of files and literate programming also require
the following executables to be present
man2html virtualenv python3 rsync
please install them if they're not here. On a Debian distribution, this can be
done with
sudo apt install python3-dev python3-setuptools man2html rsync
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
sudo python3 -m pip install virtualenv
On ArchLinux :
sudo pacman -S python-virtualenv man2html rsync
### Installation
The project is distributed as a Dune artifact. Use standard dune commands to build
and install the library. Makefile aliases are here to help you: running
make build
builds the compiler from its OCaml sources.
#### Generating website assets
The Catala website features assets generated by the Catala compiler. They are
needed to build the website. To produce them, simply run from this repository's
root directory
./generate_website_assets.sh <path-to-catala-website>/assets
You will need the `man2html` executable to generate the HTML versions of the man
pages, as well as the `rsync` executable to transfer files (preferred to `cp`)
because it also works with a remote server.
#### Opam package
If you want to install the library as an opam
package, use the following command at the root of the repository:
opam install ./
You can then can the compiler using the `catala` command.
### Usage
Use `catala --help` to get more information about the command line options available.
## Syntax highlighting
The Catala language also comes with syntax highlighting to
ease program development. The syntax highlighting is done
with the [Iro](https://eeyo.io/iro/) compiler that allows
writing the syntax only once, and then export it to formats
understood by various IDE. Currently, two syntax
highlighting plugins are under version control.
### Atom
To get Catala syntax highlighting in Atom, simply enter from
the root of the repository, depending on the language you want to use :
make atom_fr
or
make atom_en
You can now reload Atom and check that you have syntax highlighting on any `.catala` file.
### Pygments
Pygments is a Python-based versatile lexer for various
programming languages. To use a version of Pygments
augmented with the Catala plugin, simply enter
make pygments
This will execute the
script `syntax_highlighting/fr/pygments/set_up_pygments.sh` and `syntax_highlighting/en/pygments/set_up_pygments.sh`.
The scripts set up a virtual environement in
`syntax_highlighting/fr/pygments/pygments/env` or
`syntax_highlighting/en/pygments/pygments/env`, which will
contain the modified version of Pygments that has Catala
support. If you want to hack something, it is possible to use this virtual
environnement directly with
source syntax_highlighting/fr/pygments/pygments/env/bin/activate
or
source syntax_highlighting/en/pygments/pygments/env/bin/activate
The `pigmentize` executable, used for instance by the `minted` LaTeX package,
will now point to the Catala-enabled version inside the virtual environment.
This `source` setup is not necessary if you use the rules in the `Makefile`.
See [the dedicated readme](INSTALL.md).
## Contributing
The project accepts pull requests. Please email the authors
if you are interested, whether you are a law professional, a
computer scientist or a developer. Please use this email address :
denis DOT merigoux AT inria DOT fr
Please note that the copyright of this code is owned by Inria;
by contributing, you disclaim all copyright interests in favor of Inria.
See [the dedicated readme](CONTRIBUTING.md).
## License