slate-md 0.1.3

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Slate

Slate is a KISS, reliable Python CLI tool for converting Markdown to accessible static HTML pages. Perfect for blogs, knowledge bases, and personal sites.

Features

• Converts Markdown to HTML with semantic tags

• Supports headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, blockquotes, images, code blocks, inline code, and links

• Parses custom Markdown callouts (e.g., [!NOTE], [!WARNING])

• Integrates with Jinja2 templates for customizable page layout

• Outputs HTML with CSS classes for instant theme support

• CLI usability: specify input, template, title override, and output destination

Quickstart

bash

Install via pipx (recommended)

pipx install slate

Or, with pip:

pip install slate

Usage

Generate a static HTML page

slate input.md page.html -t "Page Title" -o output_dir -n index.html

• input.md: Input markdown.
• page.html: HTML template.
• -t "Page Title": Title override, slate will use the first H1 as the title otherwise.
• -o output_dir: Output directory.
• -n index.html: Output filename.

See test.md for all supported content types.

Callouts, images with captions, tables, and codeblocks are rendered with modern CSS and accessibility in mind.

Limitations

• Nested lists, nested blockquotes, and multi-line items are not fully supported

• Complex tables with nested or block content will be flattened

• Markdown extensions not in CommonMark spec may be ignored

• All unsupported features are documented in the example page.

Why Slate?

slate was created since I found other SSGs (Static Site Generators) to be needlessly complicated for my usage. All I needed to do was take some Markdown, and create HTML with correct classes, divs, etc, based on a template and a CSS file.

Because of that, slate is not as feature-full as other SSGs, but it is stupid-simple to get started with, and far easier to customise.

My personal website link is created with slate. You can view the GitHub repo of that website to get an idea of how to extend slate.

slate is designed to be used with a monolithic CSS file, and maps Markdown elements to defined CSS classes.

Feel free to fork, modify, etc.

License

LGPL v3