acrylamid 0.3.0

yet another static blog generator

Welcome to Acrylamid's Documentation!
=====================================

Acrylamid is yet another static blog compiler written in python that aims to
be lightweight, fast and producing high quality output. It is licensed under
BSD Style, 2 clauses.

Features
--------

Acrylamid is a mixture of `nanoc <http://nanoc.stoneship.org/>`_, `Pyblosxom
<http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/>`_ and `Pelican <http://pelican.notmyidea.org/>`_. It
features mainly:

- blog articles, static pages, tags RSS/Atom feeds and an article overview
- theming support (using jinja2_) and support for jinja2 directly in postings
- Markdown_, reStructuredText_ and pandoc_
- MathML, modern web-typography and hyphenation using `&shy;`
- RSS/Atom import, deployment and a handy CLI
- it's very flexible/configurable and fast

.. _jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
.. _pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
.. _AsciiMathML: http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html

Quickstart
----------

::

easy_install -U acrylamid

It has actually only one dependency, ``jinja2`` but for convenience it also
installs ``markdown`` and ``translitcodec``. In addition it has support for
PyYAML, reStructuredText, syntax highlighting using pygments, asciimathml
to render MathML and finally smartypants for nicer typography.

::

easy_install -U docutils pygments asciimathml smartypants

Get acrylamid, edit *conf.py* and *layouts/* and compile with:

::

$> acrylamid init myblog
create myblog/conf.py
...
$> cd myblog/
$> acrylamid compile && acrylamid view
warn using mtime from <fileentry f'content/sample entry.txt'>
create '/articles/index.html', written to output/articles/index.html
create 'Die Verwandlung', written to output/2011/die-verwandlung/index.html
create '/atom/index.html', written to output/atom/index.html
create '/rss/index.html', written to output/rss/index.html
create '/', written to output/index.html
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Real World Example?
*******************

I have released all sources from my personal blog:
`/posativ/blog.posativ.org/ <https://github.com/posativ/blog.posativ.org/>`_. Take a
look at my *conf.py* for some inspiration.


Filters
-------

You can apply various filter to a single entry, to a specific view or globally
and Acrylamid resolve it automatically (some filters conflict with others so
you can for example apply *Markdown* as global filter but render some entries
with reStructuredText). Currently supported by acrylamid, see
`docs/filters.rst <http://acrylamid.readthedocs.org/en/latest/filters.html>`_
for detailed information:

- **Markdown**: rendering Markdown (+asciimathml,pygments,built-in extensions)
- **reST**: reStructuredText (+pygments)
- **pandoc**: Pandoc (+Markdown,textitle,rst,...)
- **HTML**: don't render with Markdown, reStructuredText or Pandoc (it's a conflicting filter)

- **typography**: https://code.google.com/p/typogrify/ (and custom modifications)
- **hyphenation**: hyphenate words (len > 10) based on language
- **summarize**: summarizes posts to 200 words

- **head_offset**: decrease headings by offset
- **jinja2**: write jinja2 in your entries (you can also execute system calls therewith)
- **acronyms**: automatically replace acronyms and abbreviations to help unexperienced users


Commands
--------

See :doc:`commands` for a detailed overview.

::

%> acrylamid --help
Usage: acrylamid <subcommand> [options] [args]

Options:
-q, --quiet less verbose
-v, --verbose more verbose
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version print version details

Commands:
init initializes base structure in DIR
create (new) creates a new entry
compile (co) compile blog
view fire up built-in webserver
autocompile automatic compilation and serving (short aco)
clean (rm) remove abandoned files
import import content from URL
deploy run a given TASK

All subcommands except `init` require a conf.py file.