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Moreover, Hoa aims at being a bridge between industrial and research worlds.
# Hoa\Zformat
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This library provides a new format called zFormat, used to express complex
parameters, for instance for classes.
[Learn more](https://central.hoa-project.net/Documentation/Library/Zformat).
## Installation
With [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/), to include this library into
your dependencies, you need to
require [`hoa/zformat`](https://packagist.org/packages/hoa/zformat):
```sh
$ composer require hoa/zformat '~1.0'
```
For more installation procedures, please read [the Source
page](https://hoa-project.net/Source.html).
## Testing
Before running the test suites, the development dependencies must be installed:
```sh
$ composer install
```
Then, to run all the test suites:
```sh
$ vendor/bin/hoa test:run
```
For more information, please read the [contributor
guide](https://hoa-project.net/Literature/Contributor/Guide.html).
## Quick usage
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## Documentation
The
[hack book of `Hoa\Zformat`](https://central.hoa-project.net/Documentation/Library/Zformat)
contains detailed information about how to use this library and how it works.
To generate the documentation locally, execute the following commands:
```sh
$ composer require --dev hoa/devtools
$ vendor/bin/hoa devtools:documentation --open
```
More documentation can be found on the project's website:
[hoa-project.net](https://hoa-project.net/).
## Getting help
There are mainly two ways to get help:
* On the [`#hoaproject`](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#hoaproject)
IRC channel,
* On the forum at [users.hoa-project.net](https://users.hoa-project.net).
## Contribution
Do you want to contribute? Thanks! A detailed [contributor
guide](https://hoa-project.net/Literature/Contributor/Guide.html) explains
everything you need to know.
## License
Hoa is under the New BSD License (BSD-3-Clause). Please, see
[`LICENSE`](https://hoa-project.net/LICENSE) for details.