= Metanorma: the standard for standards Metanorma is dedicated to harmonizing standard documents produced by different standard-setting bodies in a manner that maintains correct semantics while allowing each standard publisher to define appropriate semantic extensions. Simply put, it allows standards bodies or any other organization to create their own standard or specification document in a best practices manner. Metanorma is composed of a number of specifications and software implementations. The Metanorma document model is based on the SecureDoc document model. Metanorma includes the following sub-projects: * The https://github.com/riboseinc/standoc-models[Metanorma document model (previously called StanDoc)] * IETF Internet-Drafts and RFCs: the https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ribose-asciirfc/[AsciiRFC syntax], the https://github.com/riboseinc/asciidoctor-rfc/[asciidoctor-rfc RFC XML v2 and v3 implementations] * ISO Standards: the AsciiISO syntax, the https://github.com/riboseinc/isodoc-models/[IsoDoc Models], the https://github.com/riboseinc/asciidoctor-iso/[asciidoctor-iso IsoDoc implementation] * CalConnect Standard Documents (CSD): the AsciiCSD syntax, https://github.com/riboseinc/csd[CSD Models], the https://github.com/riboseinc/asciidoctor-csd/[asciidoctor-csd implementation] * Chinese GuoBiao (GB) Standards: the AsciiGB syntax, https://github.com/riboseinc/gbdoc[GbDoc Models], the https://github.com/riboseinc/asciidoctor-gb/[asciidoctor-gb implementation] //* Ribose Specification Documents (RSD): AsciiRSD, RSD XML schema, and the https://github.com/riboseinc/asciidoctor-rsd[asciidoctor-rsd implementation] == Installation The Metanorma workflow can be utilized via the `metanorma` Ruby gem. [source,sh] ---- gem install metanorma ---- == Usage [source,sh] ---- metanorma --type [--format input-format] iso-my-standard-document.adoc ---- Options: //, `rsd` `type`:: (specified via `--type` or `-t`) takes one of the following types: `rfc2`, `rfc3`, `iso`, `gb`, `csd` `format`:: (specified via `--format` or `-f`) only accepts `asciidoc` for now As the `--format` argument is (currently) optional, so: [source,sh] ---- metanorma --type iso iso-my-standard-document.adoc ---- == Origin of name *Meta-* is a prefix of Greek origin ("μετα") for "`with`" or simply "`of`", and *norma* is Latin for "`rule`" and "`standard`". The Metanorma project is for setting a standard for standard documents created by standards-setting organizations, and therefore is given this rather fitting name.