CMS User Guide

Welcome to the CMS User Guide! This is a comprehensive resource for CMS information, operation, and data analysis.

Available Guides

This documentation includes:

• Python Starter Guide: Step-by-step guide for setting up Python and Anaconda on Windows
• runXS.py Starter Guide: Instructions for running and customizing the runXS.py script from SciAnalysis

Viewing this Documentation

Online

The documentation is automatically published to GitHub Pages whenever changes are pushed to the main branch.

Local Development

To build and view this documentation locally:

1. Install mdbook:

   # On macOS
   brew install mdbook
   
   # On Linux
   cargo install mdbook
   
   # On Windows
   # Download from https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/releases
   

2. Build the book:

   mdbook build
   

3. Serve locally with live reload:

   mdbook serve --open
   

The documentation will be available at http://localhost:3000.

Contributing

This guide is open to the public. Feel free to contribute improvements and additions!