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+# Dokka community plugins
+
+On this page you can find `Dokka` plugins which are supported by both `Dokka` maintainers and community members.
+
+If you want to add your plugin to this list, get in touch with maintainers via [Slack](../community/slack.md)
+or `GitHub`.
+
+If you want to learn how to develop plugins for `Dokka`, see
+[Plugin development](../developer_guide/plugin-development/introduction.md) section.
+
+## Output Formats
+
+### Javadoc (Alpha)
+
+Javadoc plugin adds a `Javadoc` output format that looks like Java's `Javadoc`, but it's for the most part
+a lookalike, so you may experience problems if you try to use it with a tool that expects native
+`Javadoc` documentation generated by `Java`.
+
+`Javadoc` plugin does not support multiplatform projects and does not have a multi-module task.
+
+`Javadoc` plugin is shipped with `Dokka`, so you can start using it right away with one of the following tasks:
+
+* `dokkaJavadoc` - builds `Javadoc` documentation for single-module projects or for a specific module.
+* `dokkaJavadocCollector` - collects generated `Javadoc` documentation from submodules and assembles it together.
+
+`Javadoc` plugin has its own signature provider that essentially translates `Kotlin` signatures to `Java` ones.
+
+**This plugin is at its early stages**, so you may experience issues and encounter bugs. Feel free to
+[report](https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/new/choose) any errors you see.
+
+[Plugin source code on GitHub](https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/tree/master/plugins/javadoc)
+
+### GFM (Alpha)
+
+`GFM` plugins adds the ability to generate documentation in `GitHub flavoured Markdown` format. Supports both
+multimodule and multiplatform projects, and is shipped together with `Dokka`, so you can start using it
+right away with one of the following tasks:
+
+* `dokkaGfm` - generate documentation for a non multi-module project or one specific module.
+* `dokkaGfmMultiModule` - generate documentation for a multi-module project, assemble it together and
+ generate navigation page/menu for all the modules.
+
+Example:
+
+___
+
+//[dokka-debug-kts](#gfm)/[org.jetbrains.dokka.test](#gfm)/[MyClass](#gfm)
+
+#### MyClass
+
+[jvm]
+class [MyClass](#gfm)
+
+KDoc that describes this class
+
+##### Constructors
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| [MyClass](#gfm) | [jvm]<br>fun [MyClass](#gfm)() |
+
+##### Functions
+
+| Name | Summary |
+|------------------|---|
+| [function](#gfm) | [jvm]<br>fun [function](#gfm)(): [String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)<br>KDoc comment on top of this function |
+
+##### Properties
+
+| Name | Summary |
+|---|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| [property](#gfm) | [jvm]<br>val [property](#gfm): [String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)<br>KDoc comment for a property |
+
+___
+
+**This plugin is at its early stages**, so you may experience issues and encounter bugs. Feel free to
+[report](https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/new/choose) any errors you see.
+
+[Plugin source code on GitHub](https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/tree/master/plugins/gfm)
+
+### Jekyll (Alpha)
+
+`Jekyll` plugins adds the ability to generate documentation in `Jekyll flavoured Markdown` format. Supports both
+multi-module and multiplatform projects, and is shipped together with `Dokka`, so you can start using it
+right away with one of the following tasks:
+
+* `dokkaJekyll` - generate documentation for a non multi-module project or one specific module.
+* `dokkaJekyllMultiModule` - generate documentation for a multi-module project, assemble it together and
+ generate navigation page/menu for all the modules.
+
+**This plugin is at its early stages**, so you may experience issues and encounter bugs. Feel free to
+[report](https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/new/choose) any errors you see.
+
+[Plugin source code on GitHub](https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/tree/master/plugins/jekyll)
+
+## Extensions
+
+### Mathjax
+
+[MathJax](https://docs.mathjax.org/) allows you to include mathematics in your web pages. `MathJax` plugin
+adds the ability to render mathematics from source code comments.
+
+If `MathJax` plugin encounters `@usesMathJax` `KDoc` tag, it adds `MathJax.js` (ver. 2) with `config=TeX-AMS_SVG`
+to generated `HTML` pages.
+
+Usage example:
+```kotlin
+/**
+ * Some math \(\sqrt{3x-1}+(1+x)^2\)
+ *
+ * @usesMathJax
+ */
+class Foo {}
+```
+
+Which results in:
+
+![Mathjax demo](../images/mathjax_demo.png){ width="400" }
+
+[Plugin source code on GitHub](https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/tree/master/plugins/mathjax)
+
+### Mermaid
+
+[Mermaid JS](https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/) lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code.
+`Mermaid` plugin allows rendering such diagrams and visualizations found in source code documentation.
+
+Usage example:
+```kotlin
+/**
+ * See the graph for more details:
+ * \```mermaid
+ * graph LR
+ * A[Christmas] -->|Get money| B(Go shopping)
+ * B --> C{Let me think}
+ * C -->|One| D[Laptop]
+ * C -->|Two| E[iPhone]
+ * C -->|Three| F[fa:fa-car Car]
+ * \```
+ */
+class CompositeSubscription
+```
+
+Which results in:
+
+![Mermaid demo](../images/mermaid_demo.png){ width="700" }
+
+For more information and examples, see
+[Html Mermaid Dokka plugin](https://github.com/glureau/dokka-mermaid) repository on GitHub.
+
+### Kotlin as Java
+
+With `Kotlin as Java` plugin applied, all `Kotlin` signatures will be rendered as `Java` signatures.
+
+For instance, `fun foo(bar: Bar): Baz` will be rendered as `public final Baz foo(Bar bar)`.
+
+`Kotlin as Java` plugin is published to maven central as a
+[separate artifact](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jetbrains.dokka/kotlin-as-java-plugin):
+`org.jetbrains.dokka:kotlin-as-java-plugin:1.7.20`.
+
+[Plugin source code on GitHub](https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/tree/master/plugins/kotlin-as-java)
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+# Slack channel
+
+`Dokka` has a dedicated `#dokka` channel in the `Kotlin Community Slack`, where you can ask questions and chat
+about using, customizing or contributing to `Dokka`.
+
+[Follow the instructions](https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/kotlin-slack-sign-up)
+to get an invite or [connect directly](https://kotlinlang.slack.com).
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+# Architecture overview
+
+Normally, you would think that a tool like `Dokka` simply parses some programming language sources and generates
+`HTML` pages for whatever it sees along the way, with little to no abstractions. That would be the simplest and
+shortest way to implement an API documentation engine.
+
+However, it was clear that `Dokka` may need to generate documentation from various sources (not only `Kotlin`), that users
+might request additional output formats (like `Markdown`), that users might need additional features like supporting
+custom `KDoc` tags or rendering `mermaid.js` diagrams - all these things would require changing a lot of code inside
+`Dokka` itself if all solutions were hardcoded.
+
+For this reason, `Dokka` was built from the ground up to be easily extensible and customizable by adding several layers
+of abstractions to the data model, and by providing pluggable extension points, giving you the ability to introduce
+selective changes on a single level.
+
+## Overview of data model
+
+Generating API documentation begins with `Input` source files (`.kts`, `.java`, etc) and ends with some `Output` files
+(`.html`/`.md` pages, etc). However, to allow for extensibility and customization, several input and output independent
+abstractions have been added to the data model.
+
+Below you can find the general pipeline of processing data gathered from sources and the explanation for each stage.
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+ Input --> Documentables --> Pages --> Output
+```
+
+* `Input` - generalization of sources, by default `Kotlin`/`Java` sources, but could be virtually anything
+* `Documentables` - unified data model that represents _any_ parsed sources as a tree, independent of the source
+ language. Examples of a `Documentable`: class, function, package, property, etc
+* `Pages` - universal model that represents output pages (e.g a function/property page) and the content it's composed of
+ (lists, text, code blocks) that the users needs to see. Not to be confused with `.html` pages. Goes hand in hand
+ with so-called `Content` model.
+* `Output` - specific output format like `HTML`/`Markdown`/`Javadoc`/etc. This is a mapping of pages/content model to
+ some human-readable and visual representation. For instance:
+ * `PageNode` is mapped as
+ * `.html` file for `HTML` format
+ * `.md` file for `Markdown` format
+ * `ContentList` is mapped as
+ * `<li>` / `<ul>` for `HTML` format
+ * `1.` / `*` for `Markdown` format
+ * `ContentCodeBlock` is mapped as
+ * `<code>` or `<pre>` with some CSS styles in `HTML` format
+ * Text wrapped in triple backticks for `Markdown` format
+
+
+You, as a `Dokka` developer or a plugin writer, can use extension points to introduce selective changes to the
+model on one particular level without touching everything else.
+
+For instance, if you wanted to make some annotation/function/class invisible in the final documentation, you would only
+need to modify the `Documentables` model by filtering undesirable members out. If you wanted to display all overloaded
+methods on the same page instead of on separate ones, you would only need to modify the `Page` model by merging multiple
+pages into one, and so on.
+
+For a deeper dive into Dokka's model with more examples and details,
+see sections about [Documentables](data_model/documentables.md) and [Page/Content](data_model/page_content.md)
+
+For an overview of existing extension points that let you transform Dokka's models, see
+[Core extension points](extension_points/core_extensions.md) and [Base extensions](extension_points/base_extensions.md).
+
+## Overview of extension points
+
+An extension point usually represents some pluggable interface that performs an action during one of the stages of
+generating documentation. An extension is therefore an implementation of that interface which is extending the
+extension point.
+
+You can create extension points, provide your own implementations (extensions) and configure them. All of
+this is possible with Dokka's plugin/extension point API.
+
+Here's a sneak peek of the DSL:
+
+```kotlin
+class MyPlugin : DokkaPlugin() {
+ // create an extension point for other developers
+ val signatureProvider by extensionPoint<SignatureProvider>()
+
+ // provide a default implementation
+ val defaultSignatureProvider by extending {
+ signatureProvider with KotlinSignatureProvider()
+ }
+
+ // register our own extension in base plugin and override its default
+ val dokkaBasePlugin by lazy { plugin<DokkaBase>() }
+ val multimoduleLocationProvider by extending {
+ (dokkaBasePlugin.locationProviderFactory
+ providing MultimoduleLocationProvider::Factory
+ override dokkaBasePlugin.locationProvider)
+ }
+}
+
+// use a registered extention, pretty much dependency injection
+class MyExtension(val context: DokkaContext) {
+
+ val signatureProvider: SignatureProvider = context.plugin<MyPlugin>().querySingle { signatureProvider }
+
+ fun doSomething() {
+ signatureProvider.signature(..)
+ }
+}
+
+interface SignatureProvider {
+ fun signature(documentable: Documentable): List<ContentNode>
+}
+
+class KotlinSignatureProvider : SignatureProvider {
+ override fun signature(documentable: Documentable): List<ContentNode> = listOf()
+}
+```
+
+For a deeper dive into extensions and extension points with more examples and details, see
+[Introduction to Extensions](extension_points/introduction.md).
+
+For an overview of existing extension points, see [Core extension points](extension_points/core_extensions.md) and
+[Base extensions](extension_points/base_extensions.md).
+
+## Historical context
+
+This is a second iteration of Dokka that was built from scratch.
+
+If you want to learn more about why Dokka has been designed this way, watch this great talk by Paweł Marks:
+[New Dokka - Designed for Fearless Creativity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvFoTRhqaKg). The general principles
+and general architecture are the same, although it may be outdated in some areas, so please double-check.
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+# Documentables Model
+
+Documentables represent data that is parsed from sources. Think of this data model as of something that could be
+seen or produced by a compiler frontend, it's not far off from the truth.
+
+By default, documentables are parsed from `Descriptor` (for `Kotlin`)
+and [Psi](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/psi.html)
+(for `Java`) models. Code-wise, you can have a look at following classes:
+
+* `DefaultDescriptorToDocumentableTranslator` - responsible for `Kotlin` -> `Documentable` mapping
+* `DefaultPsiToDocumentableTranslator` - responsible for `Java` -> `Documentable` mapping
+
+Upon creation, it's a collection of trees, each with `DModule` as root.
+
+Take some arbitrary `Kotlin` source code that is located within the same module:
+
+```kotlin
+// Package 1
+class Clazz(val property: String) {
+ fun function(parameter: String) {}
+}
+
+fun topLevelFunction() {}
+
+// Package 2
+enum class Enum { }
+
+val topLevelProperty: String
+```
+
+This would be represented roughly as the following `Documentable` tree:
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+ DModule --> firstPackage[DPackage]
+ firstPackage --> DClass
+ firstPackage --> toplevelfunction[DFunction]
+ DClass --> DProperty
+ DClass --> DFunction
+ DFunction --> DParameter
+ DModule --> secondPackage[DPackage]
+ secondPackage --> DEnum
+ secondPackage --> secondPackageProperty[DProperty]
+```
+
+At later stages of transformation, all trees are folded into one (by `DocumentableMerger`).
+
+## Documentable
+
+The main building block of documentables model is `Documentable` class. It's the base class for all more specific types
+that represent elements of parsed sources with mostly self-explanatory names (`DFunction`, `DPackage`, `DProperty`, etc)
+.
+`DClasslike` is the base class for class-like documentables such as `DClass`, `DEnum`, `DAnnotation`, etc.
+
+The contents of each documentable normally represent what you would see in source code. For instance, if you open
+`DClass`, you should find that it contains references to functions, properties, companion object, constructors and so
+on.
+`DEnum` should have references to enum entries, and `DPackage` can have references to both classlikes and top-level
+functions and properties (`Kotlin`-specific).
+
+Here's an example of a documentable:
+
+```kotlin
+data class DClass(
+ val dri: DRI,
+ val name: String,
+ val constructors: List<DFunction>,
+ val functions: List<DFunction>,
+ val properties: List<DProperty>,
+ val classlikes: List<DClasslike>,
+ val sources: SourceSetDependent<DocumentableSource>,
+ val visibility: SourceSetDependent<Visibility>,
+ val companion: DObject?,
+ val generics: List<DTypeParameter>,
+ val supertypes: SourceSetDependent<List<TypeConstructorWithKind>>,
+ val documentation: SourceSetDependent<DocumentationNode>,
+ val expectPresentInSet: DokkaSourceSet?,
+ val modifier: SourceSetDependent<Modifier>,
+ val sourceSets: Set<DokkaSourceSet>,
+ val isExpectActual: Boolean,
+ val extra: PropertyContainer<DClass> = PropertyContainer.empty()
+) : DClasslike(), WithAbstraction, WithCompanion, WithConstructors,
+ WithGenerics, WithSupertypes, WithExtraProperties<DClass>
+```
+
+___
+
+There are three non-documentable classes that important for this model:
+
+* `DRI`
+* `SourceSetDependent`
+* `ExtraProperty`.
+
+### DRI
+
+`DRI` stans for _Dokka Resource Identifier_ - a unique value that identifies a specific `Documentable`.
+All references and relations between documentables (other than direct ownership) are described using `DRI`.
+
+For example, `DFunction` with a parameter of type `Foo` has only `Foo`'s `DRI`, not the actual reference
+to `Foo`'s `Documentable` object.
+
+#### Example
+
+For an example of how a `DRI` can look like, let's take the `limitedParallelism` function from `kotlinx.coroutines`:
+
+```kotlin
+package kotlinx.coroutines
+
+import ...
+
+public abstract class MainCoroutineDispatcher : CoroutineDispatcher() {
+
+ override fun limitedParallelism(parallelism: Int): CoroutineDispatcher {
+ ...
+ }
+}
+```
+
+If we were to re-create the DRI of this function in code, it would look something like this:
+
+```kotlin
+DRI(
+ packageName = "kotlinx.coroutines",
+ classNames = "MainCoroutineDispatcher",
+ callable = Callable(
+ name = "limitedParallelism",
+ receiver = null,
+ params = listOf(
+ TypeConstructor(
+ fullyQualifiedName = "kotlin.Int",
+ params = emptyList()
+ )
+ )
+ ),
+ target = PointingToDeclaration,
+ extra = null
+)
+```
+
+If you format it as `String`, it would look like this:
+
+```
+kotlinx.coroutines/MainCoroutineDispatcher/limitedParallelism/#kotlin.Int/PointingToDeclaration/
+```
+
+### SourceSetDependent
+
+`SourceSetDependent` helps handling multiplatform data by associating platform-specific data (declared with either
+`expect` or `actual` modifier) with particular
+[source sets](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform-discover-project.html#source-sets).
+
+This comes in handy if `expect`/`actual` declarations differ. For instance, the default value for `actual` might differ
+from that declared in `expect`, or code comments written for `expect` might be different from what's written
+for `actual`.
+
+Under the hood, it's a `typealias` to a `Map`:
+
+```kotlin
+typealias SourceSetDependent<T> = Map<DokkaSourceSet, T>
+```
+
+### ExtraProperty
+
+`ExtraProperty` is used to store any additional information that falls outside of the regular model. It is highly
+recommended to use extras to provide any additional information when creating custom Dokka plugins.
+
+This element is a bit more complex, so you can read more about how to use it
+[in a separate section](extra.md).
+
+___
+
+## Documentation model
+
+Documentation model is used alongside Documentables to store data obtained by parsing
+code comments (such as `KDoc`/`Javadoc`).
+
+### DocTag
+
+`DocTag` describes a specific documentation syntax element.
+
+It's universal across source languages. For instance, DocTag `B` is the same for `**bold**` in `Kotlin` and
+`<b>bold</b>` in `Java`.
+
+However, some `DocTag` elements are specific to a certain language, there are many such examples for `Java`
+because it allows HTML tags inside `Javadoc` comments, some of which are simply not possible to reproduce with `Markdown`.
+
+`DocTag` elements can be deeply nested with other `DocTag` children elements.
+
+Examples:
+
+```kotlin
+data class H1(
+ override val children: List<DocTag> = emptyList(),
+ override val params: Map<String, String> = emptyMap()
+) : DocTag()
+
+data class H2(
+ override val children: List<DocTag> = emptyList(),
+ override val params: Map<String, String> = emptyMap()
+) : DocTag()
+
+data class Strikethrough(
+ override val children: List<DocTag> = emptyList(),
+ override val params: Map<String, String> = emptyMap()
+) : DocTag()
+
+data class Strong(
+ override val children: List<DocTag> = emptyList(),
+ override val params: Map<String, String> = emptyMap()
+) : DocTag()
+
+data class CodeBlock(
+ override val children: List<DocTag> = emptyList(),
+ override val params: Map<String, String> = emptyMap()
+) : Code()
+
+```
+
+### TagWrapper
+
+`TagWrapper` describes the whole comment description or a specific comment tag.
+For example: `@see` / `@author` / `@return`.
+
+Since each such section may contain formatted text inside of it, each `TagWrapper` has `DocTag` children.
+
+```kotlin
+/**
+ * @author **Ben Affleck*
+ * @return nothing, except _sometimes_ it may throw an [Error]
+ */
+fun foo() {}
+```
+
+### DocumentationNode
+
+`DocumentationNode` acts as a container for multiple `TagWrapper` elements for a specific `Documentable`, usually
+used like this:
+
+```kotlin
+data class DFunction(
+ ...
+ val documentation: SourceSetDependent<DocumentationNode>,
+ ...
+)
+```
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+# Extra
+
+## Introduction
+
+`ExtraProperty` classes are used both by [Documentable](documentables.md) and [Content](page_content.md#content-model)
+models.
+
+Source code for `ExtraProperty`:
+
+```kotlin
+interface ExtraProperty<in C : Any> {
+ interface Key<in C : Any, T : Any> {
+ fun mergeStrategyFor(left: T, right: T): MergeStrategy<C> = MergeStrategy.Fail {
+ throw NotImplementedError("Property merging for $this is not implemented")
+ }
+ }
+
+ val key: Key<C, *>
+}
+```
+
+To declare a new extra, you need to implement `ExtraProperty` interface. It is advised to use following pattern
+when declaring new extras:
+
+```kotlin
+data class CustomExtra(
+ [any data relevant to your extra],
+ [any data relevant to your extra]
+): ExtraProperty<Documentable> {
+ override val key: CustomExtra.Key<Documentable, *> = CustomExtra
+ companion object : CustomExtra.Key<Documentable, CustomExtra>
+}
+```
+
+Merge strategy (`mergeStrategyFor` method) for extras is invoked during
+[merging](../extension_points/core_extensions.md#documentablemerger) if documentables from different
+[source sets](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform-discover-project.html#source-sets) each
+have their own `Extra` of the same type.
+
+## PropertyContainer
+
+All extras for `ContentNode` and `Documentable` classes are stored in `PropertyContainer<C : Any>` class instances.
+
+```kotlin
+data class DFunction(
+ ...
+ override val extra: PropertyContainer<DFunction> = PropertyContainer.empty()
+ ...
+) : WithExtraProperties<DFunction>
+```
+
+`PropertyContainer` has a number of convenient functions for handling extras in a collection-like manner.
+
+The `C` generic class parameter limits the type of properties that can be stored in the container - it must
+match generic `C` class parameter from `ExtraProperty` interface. This allows creating extra properties
+which can only be stored in a specific `Documentable`.
+
+## Usage example
+
+In following example we will create a `DFunction`-only property, store it and then retrieve its value:
+
+```kotlin
+data class CustomExtra(val customExtraValue: String) : ExtraProperty<DFunction> {
+ override val key: ExtraProperty.Key<Documentable, *> = CustomExtra
+ companion object: ExtraProperty.Key<Documentable, CustomExtra>
+}
+
+fun DFunction.withCustomExtraProperty(data: String): DFunction {
+ return this.copy(
+ extra = extra + CustomExtra(data)
+ )
+}
+
+fun DFunction.getCustomExtraPropertyValue(): String? {
+ return this.extra[CustomExtra]?.customExtraValue
+}
+```
+
+___
+
+You can also use extras as markers, without storing any data in them:
+
+```kotlin
+
+object MarkerExtra : ExtraProperty<Any>, ExtraProperty.Key<Any, MarkerExtra> {
+ override val key: ExtraProperty.Key<Any, *> = this
+}
+
+fun Documentable.markIfFunction(): Documentable {
+ return when(this) {
+ is DFunction -> this.copy(extra = extra + MarkerExtra)
+ else -> this
+ }
+}
+
+fun WithExtraProperties<Documentable>.isMarked(): Boolean {
+ return this.extra[MarkerExtra] != null
+}
+```
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+# Page / Content Model
+
+Even though `Page` and `Content` models reside on the same level (under `Page`), it's easier to view it as two different
+models altogether, even though `Content` is only used in conjunction with and inside `Page` model.
+
+## Page
+
+Page model represents the structure of documentation pages to be generated. During rendering, each page
+is processed separately, so one page corresponds to exactly one output file.
+
+Page model is independent of the final output format, in other words it's universal. Which extension the pages
+should be created as (`.html`, `.md`, etc) and how is up to the `Renderer`.
+
+Subclasses of `PageNode` represent different kinds of rendered pages, such as `ModulePage`, `PackagePage`,
+`ClasslikePage`, `MemberPage` (properties, functions), etc.
+
+The Page Model is a tree structure, with `RootPageNode` at the root.
+
+Here's an example of how an arbitrary `Page` tree might look like for a module with 3 packages, one of which contains
+a top level function, top level property and a class, inside which there's a function and a property:
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+ RootPageNode --> firstPackage[PackagePageNode]
+ RootPageNode --> secondPackage[PackagePageNode]
+ RootPageNode --> thirdPackage[PackagePageNode]
+ firstPackage --> firstPackageFirstMember[MemberPageNode - Function]
+ firstPackage --> firstPackageSecondMember[MemberPageNode - Property]
+ firstPackage ---> firstPackageClasslike[ClasslikePageNode - Class]
+ firstPackageClasslike --> firstPackageClasslikeFirstMember[MemberPageNode - Function]
+ firstPackageClasslike --> firstPackageClasslikeSecondMember[MemberPageNode - Property]
+ secondPackage --> etcOne[...]
+ thirdPackage --> etcTwo[...]
+```
+
+Almost all pages are derivatives of `ContentPage` - it's the type of `Page` that has `Content` on it.
+
+## Content Model
+
+Content model describes how the actual `Page` content is presented. The important thing to understand is that it's
+also output-format independent and is universal.
+
+Content model is essentially a set of building blocks that you can put together to represent some content.
+Have a look at subclasses of `ContentNode`: `ContentText`, `ContentList`, `ContentTable`, `ContentCodeBlock`,
+`ContentHeader` and so on. You can group content together with `ContentGroup` - for instance,
+to wrap all children with some style.
+
+```kotlin
+// real example of composing content using `DocumentableContentBuilder` DSL
+orderedList {
+ item {
+ text("This list contains a nested table:")
+ table {
+ header {
+ text("Col1")
+ text("Col2")
+ }
+ row {
+ text("Text1")
+ text("Text2")
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ item {
+ group(styles = setOf(TextStyle.Bold)) {
+ text("This is bald")
+ text("This is also bald")
+ }
+ }
+}
+```
+
+It is then responsibility of `Renderer` (i.e specific output format) to r