acrylamid 0.6.2

static blog compiler with incremental updates

Welcome to Acrylamid
====================

Acrylamid is a mixture of `nanoc <http://nanoc.stoneship.org/>`_, `Pyblosxom
<http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/>`_ and `Pelican <http://blog.getpelican.com/>`_
licensed under BSD Style, 2 clauses. It is actively developed at
https://github.com/posativ/acrylamid/.

|Build Status|_

.. _Build Status: http://travis-ci.org/posativ/acrylamid
.. |Build Status| image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/posativ/acrylamid.png?branch=master


Why?
----

- it is really *fast* due incremental builds
- support for Jinja2_ and Mako_ templates
- many Markdown_ extensions and custom reStructuredText_ directives
- MathML_, enhanced typography and hyphenation using soft-hyphens

Oh, and it can also generate a static blog with articles, static pages, tags,
RSS/Atom feeds (also per tag), article listing and a sitemap.

.. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
.. _Mako: http://www.makotemplates.org/
.. _MathML: http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html

Why the name “Acrylamid”?
-------------------------

I'm studying bioinformatics and I was experimenting with Acrylamide at this
time. I'm really bad at naming. If you have a better name, please tell me!
Two requirements: reasonably speakable and tab-completion after 3 characters.

Overview
--------

With Acrylamid you can write your weblog entries with your editor of choice in
Markdown, reStructuredText or textile. With several content filters you can
pimp your HTML (typography, math, hyphenation). Acrylamid provides a very
sophisticated CLI and integrates perfectly with any DVCes. It generates
completely static HTML you can host everywhere.

supported markup languages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Markdown_ and additional extensions (support for MathML_, deletion/insertion,
sub- and supscript, syntax highlighting …)
- reStructuredText_ with directives for syntax highlighting and youtube video
embedding
- textile_, discount_, all dialects supported by pandoc_ and plain HTML

You miss one? Extend Acrylamid in `less than 30 LoC`_!

.. _Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _textile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_%28markup_language%29
.. _discount: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/
.. _pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
.. _less than 30 LoC: https://posativ.org/git/acrylamid/blob/master/acrylamid/filters/pytextile.py

other filters
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- support for Jinja2 and Mako directly in postings (before they get processed)
- typography_ (and smartypants_)
- TeX hyphenation
- summarize ability
- `acronym detection`_ that automatically replace acronyms and abbreviations

.. _typography: https://code.google.com/p/typogrify/
.. _smartypants: http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/
.. _acronym detection: http://pyblosxom.github.com/1.5/plugins/acronyms.html

blogging features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- you like the `YAML front matter`_ from Jekyll_ or nanoc_? First choice in Acrylamid!
- coming from Pelican_? Acrylamid has also support for metadata in the native
format of Markdown, reStructuredText and even Pandoc.
- support for translations (oh, and did I mention the language dependend
hyphenation feature?).
- a few HTML5 themes, see `Theming <http://posativ.org/acrylamid/theming.html>`_.
- internal webserver with automatic compiling when something has changed.
- assets management, including LESS_ and SASS_ conversion.
- uni-directional PingBack support.
- static site search.

.. _YAML front matter: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/YAML-Front-Matter
.. _Jekyll: http://jekyllrb.com/
.. _nanoc: http://nanoc.stoneship.org/
.. _LESS: http://lesscss.org/
.. _SASS: http://sass-lang.com/

what is missing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- No comments. You have to use Disqus_ or `this approach`_.

.. _Disqus: http://disqus.com/
.. _this approach: http://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2011/07/19/static-comments-in-jekyll.html
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/latest/

Quickstart
----------

::

easy_install -U acrylamid

This installs Acrylamid with Jinja2_ as templating engine. For Mako_ use
``easy_install -U acrylamid[mako]``. This installs two additional but not
required dependencies: ``Markdown`` and ``translitcodec``. To get a list of
all supported modules, head over to `additional supported modules`_.

.. _additional supported modules: http://posativ.org/acrylamid/installation.html#additional-supported-modules

Initialize the base structure, edit *conf.py* and *layouts/* and compile with:

::

$ acrylamid init myblog # --mako, defaults to --jinja2
create myblog/conf.py
...
$ cd myblog/
$ acrylamid compile && acrylamid view
create [0.05s] output/articles/index.html
create [0.37s] output/2012/die-verwandlung/index.html
create [0.00s] output/index.html
create [0.00s] output/tag/die-verwandlung/index.html
create [0.00s] output/tag/franz-kafka/index.html
create [0.03s] output/atom/index.html
create [0.04s] output/rss/index.html
create [0.00s] output/sitemap.xml
create output/style.css
9 new, 0 updated, 0 skipped [0.72s]
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Real World Examples?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- `Practicing web development <http://www.vlent.nl/>`_ – Mark van Lent
[`source <https://github.com/markvl/www.vlent.nl>`_]
- `mecker. mecker. mecker. <http://blog.posativ.org/>`_ – Martin Zimmermann
[`source <https://github.com/posativ/blog.posativ.org/>`_]
- `Groovematic <http://groovematic.com/>`_ – Isman Firmansyah
[`source <https://github.com/iromli/groovematic>`_]
- `Christoph Polcin <http://www.christoph-polcin.com/>`_ – Christoph Polcin
[`source <http://git.christoph-polcin.com/blog/>`_, `theme <http://git.christoph-polcin.com/acrylamid-theme-bipolar/>`_]

Commands
--------

See `commands <https://posativ.org/acrylamid/commands.html>`_ for a detailed
overview.

::

$ acrylamid --help
usage: acrylamid [-h] [-v] [-q] [-C] [--version] ...

positional arguments:

init initializes base structure in DIR
compile compile blog
view fire up built-in webserver
autocompile automatic compilation and serving
new create a new entry
check run W3C or validate links
deploy run task
import import content from URL or FILE
info short summary
ping notify ressources

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose more verbose
-q, --quiet less verbose
-C, --no-color disable color
--version show program's version number and exit

Need Help?
----------

Join ``#acrylamid`` on Freenode_! If you found a bug, please report it on
`GitHub Issues`_. The project has also a mailing list [Archive_], just send
an email to ``[e-mail]`` and you have subscribed .

.. _Freenode: http://freenode.net/
.. _Github Issues: https://github.com/posativ/acrylamid/issues?state=open
.. _Archive: http://librelist.com/browser/acrylamid/