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Limelight

Limelight is a portable package format for data-driven figures and analysis stories, and a desktop app for reading them.

A Limelight package is a folder, or a .limelight archive with the same layout, holding a project.dhall manifest alongside the datasets it describes, the figure specs drawn from them, and a story that walks a reader through the analysis. The app opens either form, validates the manifest, resolves the data, renders the figures, and follows the story.

Packages are meant to be produced by libraries and tools rather than by hand; limelight.writer is the Python library for building them, and limelight.reader for opening them without the app.

Installing

pip install limelight-app

The distribution is limelight-app (PyPI would not allow plain limelight), but the package imports as limelight and the commands are named as below.

A package's project.dhall manifest is read by a built-in evaluator, so nothing beyond the Python dependencies is needed. A hand-written manifest that uses Dhall features beyond what the writer emits (functions, if, merge, interpolation) is handed to dhall-to-json instead, if one is on PATH or named by LIMELIGHT_DHALL_TO_JSON.

Native installers for Windows, macOS and Linux are built by packaging/; see packaging/README.md.

Using it

limelight-gui example.limelight            # open a package in the desktop app
limelight-cli summary example.limelight    # print a summary of a package
limelight-cli verify example.limelight     # validate one or more packages
limelight-cli pdf example.limelight        # render a package's story to PDF

LL is the short form of both: LL example.limelight opens the app, and LL verify example.limelight (or summary, json, pdf) runs the CLI.

The scripts in examples/ build sample packages into _build/examples/, and src/limelight/language-reference/ holds the Dhall types a manifest is written against; the writer copies them into every package it builds.

Developing

uv sync --all-groups
uv run pytest

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