The documents use the asciidoc format, see:

• https://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

• https://powerman.name/doc/asciidoc

Asciidoc version 8.6.8 is a requirement together with whatever dependencies it needs and specifically docbook, w3m, fop and graphviz.

Apache Maven together with Make are used to unpack the pieces of the manual and to execute asciidoc on them. Note that running parallel jobs with Make (-j option) is not supported.

To build the documentation, use:
mvn clean install
This will produce a single html5 page (in 'target/html5'). Note that this won’t suffice in order to build the download packages of Neo4j. However, the build requirements are limited to Python and Graphviz (and Maven, Java). This build checks for missing include files and AsciiDoc syntax errors.

To build all artifacts, use:
mvn clean install -DfullBuild or
mvn clean install -DfullManualBuild

To build all dependencies of the manual, use the following at the top level of the repository:
mvn clean install -DdocsBuild
In order to build all the artifacts of the manual too, add -DfullManualBuild