legoman

Simple static website generator.

Supports TOC, image captions, LaTeX, code highlighting and tables.

Demo

Quickstart

pip install legoman

# in an empty directory
legoman init
make html

# run devserver (requires inotify-tools)
make devserver

How it works

Files in content/ are rendered and copied to output/, so the directory structure of your rendered website matches the structure of your source files.

For example, the demo content/:

content
├── codehilite.css
├── index.j2
├── projects
│   ├── bar_proj
│   │   └── index.md
│   └── foo_proj
│       ├── cheetos_small.png
│       └── index.md
└── styles.css

yields this output/

output
├── codehilite.css
├── index.html
├── projects
│   ├── bar_proj
│   │   └── index.html
│   └── foo_proj
│       ├── cheetos_small.png
│       └── index.html
└── styles.css

CGI

Legoman can also render files individually, which is useful for CGI scripts on a webserver.

TEMPLATE_DIR=/path/to/templates legoman_cgi example.md

Or for serving markdown with lighttpd:

$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.md$" {
	setenv.set-environment = ("TEMPLATE_DIR" => "/path/to/templates/")
    cgi.assign = (
        ".md"  => "/path/to/legoman_cgi",
        ".j2"  => "/path/to/legoman_cgi",
    )
}

Usage

Usage: legoman [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --debug
  --content_dir PATH
  --output_dir PATH
  --template_dir PATH
  --help               Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  build   generate content
  init    initialize project
  single  render single file

See also

• Hugo - similar idea, but written in Go and uses Go's templating engine
• Dozens of other static website generators