parody
A play on parity: keeping the print and web versions of a work in parity.
One authoring toolchain for books and course notebooks: pandoc markdown (with executed jupytext code cells) in, multiple targets out —
- JSON artifact (schema-versioned; the contract consumed by ricopic.one's Django importer and other tools)
- standalone HTML preview (no server needed; resolves the artifact's site-template tags itself)
- print-quality PDF via LaTeX profiles (lualatex/latexmk; generic profile bundled, book-private profiles pluggable)
Parody unifies and replaces the toolchains of two ancestor systems: the
homepage-django notebooks pipeline and the rtc-book meta-* book machinery.
See NEW_PROJECT_SEED_PLAN.md for the full plan.
Install / develop
Requires Python ≥ 3.11 and pandoc (pinned version in
parody/toolchain.py), or use the Dockerfile/devcontainer.
uv sync # create venv + install
uv run parody --help
uv run pytest # golden tests need the ancestor corpora; see tests/golden/
CLI
parody init <dir> # scaffold a content repo (incl. CI workflow)
parody build <project_dir> <output.json> [--clozes blank|key|full] # JSON artifact
parody preview <project_dir> -o preview # static HTML site for review
parody watch <project_dir> # rebuild on save (pip install 'parody[watch]')
parody pdf <project_dir> [--solutions] [--clozes MODE] [--section ch/sec] # print PDF (needs TeX)
parody check <artifact.json> # validate artifact against schema
parody check --toolchain # verify pinned toolchain versions
Content repos use parody.yaml + chapters/<ch>/<sec>.md; the legacy
System A layout (__meta.yaml + chapter_*/) builds bit-compatibly and
remains covered by golden tests.
Fill-in-the-blank (cloze) content
[answer]{.cloze} hides text behind a blank sized to it; []{.blank size=lg}
is an empty blank with nothing behind it (sm/md/lg/xl = 2/5/10/20 em, or
width=4cm). Block forms: ::: {.blank lines=6} for work space, ::: {.cloze}
for a hidden passage. Inside math, use the macros — a span cannot live inside
$…$: $\tau = \cloze{RC}$, $y = \clozeblank{3em}$. A figure can carry
incomplete artwork with cloze="fig-blank.pdf", or by putting a
<stem>-cloze.<ext> sibling next to it.
Three build modes, set by --clozes (or cloze: {default: …} in
parody.yaml), independent of --solutions:
| mode | who it is for |
|---|---|
blank (default) |
student handout — answers replaced by rules at build time |
key |
instructor copy — answers shown, accented |
full |
publication — answers as ordinary text, blanks dropped entirely |
parody pdf . --clozes blank
parody build . artifact/book-full.json --clozes full
In blank mode the answer never reaches the browser or the PDF content stream —
it is removed at build time, not hidden with CSS. Print measures the real box
with \settowidth, so widths are exact; the web estimates from character count.
A cloze inside an exercise solution always renders full.
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