add --draft switch

3 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 663fab4..df001ae 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ You can also have a look at `$BASE_CONTENT_DIR/meta/gemfeed`. There is a metafil
 
 ## Drafting a blog post before publishing it
 
-If you don't want to publish your article yet (e.g. don't advertise it on the Gemfeed and Atom feed yet), you can draft your article in `./gemtext/gemfeed/DRAFT-article-title-dash-separated.gmi`. Gemtexter will still generate all output formats of the draft, but your site visitors won't be aware of it. Once you want to publish your draft just rename `DRAFT` with the publishing date `YYYY-MM-DD` and from there everything works normally.
+If you don't want to publish your article yet (e.g. don't advertise it on the Gemfeed and Atom feed yet), you can draft your article in `./gemtext/gemfeed/DRAFT-article-title-dash-separated.gmi` and when invoke `./gemtexter --draft` to generate the outputs. Once you want to publish your draft just rename `DRAFT` with the publishing date `YYYY-MM-DD` and from there everything works normally.
 
 ## Ready to be published
 
diff --git a/gemtexter b/gemtexter
index 2e41d88..71fe298 100755
--- a/gemtexter
+++ b/gemtexter
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # by Paul Buetow 2021, 2022
 
 declare -r ARG="$1"; shift
-declare -r CONTENT_FILTER="$1"; shift
+declare CONTENT_FILTER="$1"; shift
 
 declare -r VERSION=1.2.0
 declare -r VERSION_DESCR=develop
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ main () {
         --version)
             echo "This is gemtexter version $VERSION $VERSION_DESCR"
             ;;
+        --draft)
+            generate::draft html md
+            ;;
         --publish)
             $0 --generate
             $0 --git
diff --git a/lib/generate.source.sh b/lib/generate.source.sh
index 5392163..9a9e90b 100644
--- a/lib/generate.source.sh
+++ b/lib/generate.source.sh
@@ -185,3 +185,16 @@ generate::fromgmi () {
     done
     log INFO "You may want to commit all changes to version control!"
 }
+
+# Only generate draft posts
+generate::draft () {
+    if [ ! -z "$CONTENT_FILTER" ]; then
+        log ERROR "ERROR, you can't set a content filter manually in draft mode"
+        exit 2
+    fi
+    CONTENT_FILTER=DRAFT-
+    generate::fromgmi $@
+
+    log INFO 'For HTML preview, open in your browser:'
+    find $CONTENT_BASE_DIR/html -name DRAFT-\*.html
+}