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| author | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2023-04-07 00:49:19 +0300 |
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| committer | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2023-04-07 00:49:19 +0300 |
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diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.html b/gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.html index 96c24f5b..709434d0 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.html +++ b/gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.html @@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ <link rel="stylesheet" href="style-override.css" /> </head> <body> -<h1>Gemtexter 1.1.0 - Let's Gemtext again</h1> -<p class="quote"><i>Published at 2022-08-27T18:25:57+01:00</i></p> +<h1 style='display: inline'>Gemtexter 1.1.0 - Let's Gemtext again</h1><br /> +<br /> +<span class=quote>Published at 2022-08-27T18:25:57+01:00</span><br /> +<br /> <pre> -=[ typewriter ]=- 1/98 @@ -21,12 +23,19 @@ |o=======.| jgs `"""""""""` </pre> -<p>I proudly announce that I've released Gemtexter version <span class="inlinecode">1.1.0</span>. What is Gemtexter? It's my minimalist static site generator for Gemini Gemtext, HTML and Markdown written in GNU Bash.</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://codeberg.org/snonux/gemtexter">https://codeberg.org/snonux/gemtexter</a><br /> -<p>It has been around a year since I released the first version <span class="inlinecode">1.0.0</span>. Although, there aren't any groundbreaking changes, there have been a couple of smaller commits and adjustments. I was quite surprised that I received a bunch of feedback and requests about Gemtexter so it means that I am not the only person in the universe actually using it.</p> -<h2>What's new?</h2> -<h3>Automatic check for GNU version requirements</h3> -<p>Gemtexter relies on the GNU versions of the tools <span class="inlinecode">grep</span>, <span class="inlinecode">sed</span> and <span class="inlinecode">date</span> and it also requires the Bash shell in version 5 at least. That's now done in the <span class="inlinecode">check_dependencies()</span> function:</p> +<br /> +<span>I proudly announce that I've released Gemtexter version <span class=inlinecode>1.1.0</span>. What is Gemtexter? It's my minimalist static site generator for Gemini Gemtext, HTML and Markdown written in GNU Bash.</span><br /> +<br /> +<a class=textlink href='https://codeberg.org/snonux/gemtexter'>https://codeberg.org/snonux/gemtexter</a><br /> +<br /> +<span>It has been around a year since I released the first version <span class=inlinecode>1.0.0</span>. Although, there aren't any groundbreaking changes, there have been a couple of smaller commits and adjustments. I was quite surprised that I received a bunch of feedback and requests about Gemtexter so it means that I am not the only person in the universe actually using it.</span><br /> +<br /> +<h2 style='display: inline'>What's new?</h2><br /> +<br /> +<h3 style='display: inline'>Automatic check for GNU version requirements</h3><br /> +<br /> +<span>Gemtexter relies on the GNU versions of the tools <span class=inlinecode>grep</span>, <span class=inlinecode>sed</span> and <span class=inlinecode>date</span> and it also requires the Bash shell in version 5 at least. That's now done in the <span class=inlinecode>check_dependencies()</span> function:</span><br /> +<br /> <pre> check_dependencies () { # At least, Bash 5 is required @@ -46,34 +55,56 @@ check_dependencies () { done } </pre> -<p>Especially macOS users didn't read the <span class="inlinecode">README</span> carefully enough to install GNU Grep, GNU Sed and GNU Date before using Gemtexter.</p> -<h3>Backticks now produce <span class="inlinecode">inline code blocks</span> in the HTML output</h3> -<p>The Gemtext format doesn't support inline code blocks, but Gemtexter now produces <span class="inlinecode">inline code blocks</span> (means, small code fragments can be placed in the middle of a paragraph) in the HTML output when the code block is enclosed with Backticks. There were no adjustments required for the Markdown output format, because Markdown supports it already out of the box.</p> -<h3>Cache for Atom feed generation</h3> -<p>The Bash is not the most performant language. Gemtexter already takes a couple of seconds only to generate the Atom feed for around two hand full of articles on my slightly underpowered Surface Go 2 Linux tablet. Therefore, I introduced a cache, so that subsequent Atom feed generation runs finish much quicker. The cache uses a checksum of the Gemtext <span class="inlinecode">.gmi</span> file to decide whether anything of the content has changed or not.</p> -<h3>Input filter support</h3> -<p>Once your capsule reaches a certain size, it can become annoying to re-generate everything if you only want to preview the HTML or Markdown output of one single content file. The following will add a filter to only generate the files matching a regular expression:</p> +<br /> +<span>Especially macOS users didn't read the <span class=inlinecode>README</span> carefully enough to install GNU Grep, GNU Sed and GNU Date before using Gemtexter.</span><br /> +<br /> +<h3 style='display: inline'>Backticks now produce <span class=inlinecode>inline code blocks</span> in the HTML output</h3><br /> +<br /> +<span>The Gemtext format doesn't support inline code blocks, but Gemtexter now produces <span class=inlinecode>inline code blocks</span> (means, small code fragments can be placed in the middle of a paragraph) in the HTML output when the code block is enclosed with Backticks. There were no adjustments required for the Markdown output format, because Markdown supports it already out of the box.</span><br /> +<br /> +<h3 style='display: inline'>Cache for Atom feed generation</h3><br /> +<br /> +<span>The Bash is not the most performant language. Gemtexter already takes a couple of seconds only to generate the Atom feed for around two hand full of articles on my slightly underpowered Surface Go 2 Linux tablet. Therefore, I introduced a cache, so that subsequent Atom feed generation runs finish much quicker. The cache uses a checksum of the Gemtext <span class=inlinecode>.gmi</span> file to decide whether anything of the content has changed or not.</span><br /> +<br /> +<h3 style='display: inline'>Input filter support</h3><br /> +<br /> +<span>Once your capsule reaches a certain size, it can become annoying to re-generate everything if you only want to preview the HTML or Markdown output of one single content file. The following will add a filter to only generate the files matching a regular expression:</span><br /> +<br /> <pre> ./gemtexter --generate '.*hello.*' </pre> -<h3>Revamped <span class="inlinecode">git</span> support</h3> -<p>The Git support has been completely rewritten. It's now more reliable and faster too. Have a look at the <span class="inlinecode">README</span> for more information.</p> -<h3>Addition of <span class="inlinecode">htmlextras</span> and web font support</h3> -<p>The <span class="inlinecode">htmlextras</span> folder now contains all extra files required for the HTML output format such as cascading style sheet (CSS) files and web fonts.</p> -<h3>Sub-section support</h3> -<p>It's now possible to define sub-sections within a Gemtexter capsule. For the HTML output, each sub-section can use its own CSS and web font definitions. E.g.:</p> -<a class="textlink" href="https://foo.zone">The foo.zone main site</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="https://foo.zone/notes">The notes sub-section (with different fonts)</a><br /> -<h3>More</h3> -<p>Additionally, there were a couple of bug fixes, refactorings and overall improvements in the documentation made. </p> -<p>Overall I think it's a pretty solid <span class="inlinecode">1.1.0</span> release without anything groundbreaking (therefore no major version jump). But I am happy about it.</p> -<p>Other related posts are:</p> -<a class="textlink" href="./2023-03-25-gemtexter-2.0.0-lets-gemtext-again-2.html">2023-03-25 Gemtexter 2.0.0 - Let's Gemtext again^2</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="./2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.html">2022-08-27 Gemtexter 1.1.0 - Let's Gemtext again (You are currently reading this)</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="./2021-06-05-gemtexter-one-bash-script-to-rule-it-all.html">2021-06-05 Gemtexter - One Bash script to rule it all</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="./2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html">2021-04-24 Welcome to the Geminispace</a><br /> -<p>E-Mail your comments to hi@paul.cyou :-)</p> -<a class="textlink" href="../">Back to the main site</a><br /> +<br /> +<h3 style='display: inline'>Revamped <span class=inlinecode>git</span> support</h3><br /> +<br /> +<span>The Git support has been completely rewritten. It's now more reliable and faster too. Have a look at the <span class=inlinecode>README</span> for more information.</span><br /> +<br /> +<h3 style='display: inline'>Addition of <span class=inlinecode>htmlextras</span> and web font support</h3><br /> +<br /> +<span>The <span class=inlinecode>htmlextras</span> folder now contains all extra files required for the HTML output format such as cascading style sheet (CSS) files and web fonts.</span><br /> +<br /> +<h3 style='display: inline'>Sub-section support</h3><br /> +<br /> +<span>It's now possible to define sub-sections within a Gemtexter capsule. For the HTML output, each sub-section can use its own CSS and web font definitions. E.g.:</span><br /> +<br /> +<a class=textlink href='https://foo.zone'>The foo.zone main site</a><br /> +<a class=textlink href='https://foo.zone/notes'>The notes sub-section (with different fonts)</a><br /> +<br /> +<h3 style='display: inline'>More</h3><br /> +<br /> +<span>Additionally, there were a couple of bug fixes, refactorings and overall improvements in the documentation made. </span><br /> +<br /> +<span>Overall I think it's a pretty solid <span class=inlinecode>1.1.0</span> release without anything groundbreaking (therefore no major version jump). But I am happy about it.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span>Other related posts are:</span><br /> +<br /> +<a class=textlink href='./2023-03-25-gemtexter-2.0.0-lets-gemtext-again-2.html'>2023-03-25 Gemtexter 2.0.0 - Let's Gemtext again^2</a><br /> +<a class=textlink href='./2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.html'>2022-08-27 Gemtexter 1.1.0 - Let's Gemtext again (You are currently reading this)</a><br /> +<a class=textlink href='./2021-06-05-gemtexter-one-bash-script-to-rule-it-all.html'>2021-06-05 Gemtexter - One Bash script to rule it all</a><br /> +<a class=textlink href='./2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html'>2021-04-24 Welcome to the Geminispace</a><br /> +<br /> +<span>E-Mail your comments to hi@paul.cyou :-)</span><br /> +<br /> +<a class=textlink href='../'>Back to the main site</a><br /> <p class="footer"> Generated with <a href="https://codeberg.org/snonux/gemtexter">Gemtexter</a> | served by <a href="https://www.OpenBSD.org">OpenBSD</a>/<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> | |