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Table of Contents

• Peut-publier enables users to...
• Quickstart
  • Install
  • Create a new web site
  • Create a new web page
  • Publish
  • Customize
  • Extend

Peut-publier enables users to...

• Build a website
• Using any lightweight markup language
• With any workflow

peut-publier enables you to publish.

See demo:

Quickstart

peut-publier is a static website generator for Emacs. It's designed to be customized and extended using Emacs Lisp. Websites are built from lightweight markup files. The default site is an Org mode blog.

Install

peut-publier is not currently in MELPA.

Install from source

Install peut-publier from source by doing one of the following:

• click the "Code" button on Github, select "Download ZIP", and unzip; or

• clone peut-publier with Git:

  # create new `peut-publier` directory in user's home directory
  git clone https://github.com/excalamus/peut-publier.git ~/peut-publier

Next, add peut-publier to your Emacs load-path. Place the following in your init.el or evaluate using M-x eval-expression:

;; add the peut-publier repository to the load-path
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/peut-publier/")

Finally, load the peut-publier package into Emacs:

(require 'peut-publier)

Install using straight.el

After following the straight setup:

(use-package peut-publier
  :straight (:repo "git@github.com:excalamus/peut-publier.git"))

Create a new web site

Use M-x peut-publier-create-site to create a new web site. The default site is a blog. It has an "Index" page with a list of blog posts and an "About" page with a headshot. Text may be added to each. The default directory structure, index page, and about page are created automatically. You'll be prompted for the creation of your first post.

The default site directory looks like:

~/site/
├── publish
│   ├── about.html
│   ├── index.html
│   └── static
│       ├── about.png
│       ├── favicon.ico
│       └── style.css
└── src
    ├── about.org
    └── index.org

Create a new web page

New pages can be created with M-x peut-publier-new-page. The default page type is a blog post. You will be prompted for the post title, date, type, and save name. The new page is automatically opened for you; just start writing. By default, page meta-data is separated from content by a single blank line.

#+TITLE: New post!
#+DATE: 2020-07-31
#+TYPE: post

Everything above this line is meta-data.  By default, meta-data is
separated from content by a single blank line.

Publish

Publish your entire site with M-x peut-publier-publish. All the source pages in the peut-publier-src-directory will be converted to HTML and placed in the peut-publier-publish-directory. Direct your web server to the peut-publier-publish-directory and you've entered the world of self-publishing. Tu peut publier!

To publish a single page, use M-x peut-publier-publish-page and follow the prompts.

A trick for those on unix-like systems is to store page source files in a separate directory (e.g. draft/) and create symlinks to files you want published in the peut-publier-src-directory. The default renderer will follow symlinks when publishing. To prevent rendering of a page, simply remove the link.

Customize

peut-publier allows you to customize your site through numerous variables. For a complete list with descriptions, check M-x customize-group peut-publier or do it the old fashioned way withC-v peut-publier- <TAB> or C-f peut-publier- <TAB>.

Customizations can be placed in a config.el at the top-level (or anywhere you like).

A config may look like:

(setq peut-publier-site-name "peut-publier")
(setq peut-publier-author "Excalamus")

;; don't use default ~/site for root
(setq peut-publier-root-directory "/home/excalamus/Projects/peut-publier.com/"))

;; since the root was redefined, redefine the source and publish
;; directories relative to the new root
(setq peut-publier-src-directory
      (concat peut-publier-root-directory "src/"))
(setq peut-publier-publish-directory
      (concat peut-publier-root-directory "publish/"))

;; define headshot image
(setq peut-publier-about-img "static/about.png")
(setq peut-publier-about-img-alt "Headshot")

;; hack together a menu
(setq peut-publier-body-preamble
  (concat
   "   <div id=\"preamble\" class=\"status\">\n"
   "      <nav>\n"
   "         <div class=\"flexcontainer\">\n"
   "            <div class=\"smallitem\">\n"
   "               <ul class=\"inline-list\">\n"
   "                  <li><a href=\".\" id=\"website\">" peut-publier-site-name "</a></li>\n"
   "               </ul>\n"
   "            </div>\n"
   "            <div class=\"bigitem\">\n"
   "               <ul class=\"inline-list\">\n"
   "                  <li><a href=\"about.html\">About</a></li>\n"
   "               </ul>\n"
   "            </div>\n"
   "         </div>\n"
   "      </nav>\n"
   "      <hr/>\n"
   "   </div>\n"))

;; get webpage title from post title
(defun my-html-page-title (page-path)
  "Create HTML title for PAGE-PATH."
  (concat
   "      <title>" (peut-publier-alist-get "TITLE" (peut-publier-get-meta-data-alist page-path)) "</title>\n"))

;; use my-html-page-title to render the head
(setq peut-publier-variable-head #'my-html-page-title)

;; define a postamble to be used on each page
(setq peut-publier-body-postamble
  (concat "   <div id=\"postamble\" class=\"status\">\n"
      "      <hr/>\n"
      "      <p>Powered by <a href=\"https://github.com/excalamus/peut-publier\">peut-publier</a></p>\n"
      "      <p>©" (format-time-string "%Y") " " peut-publier-author "</p>\n"
      "    </div>\n"))

;; don't list the index or about page in the post listing
(setq peut-publier--index-exclude '("index" "about"))

;; allow broken links when rendering
(setq org-export-with-broken-links 'mark)

Extend

peut-publier is written in, and intended to be extended with, Emacs Lisp. If you're not familiar with Emacs Lisp, that's okay. If you're using Emacs, use C-h f to see a function's documentation and source code; use C-h v for variables.

The best resources for learning Emacs Lisp are An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp and the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. These may be bundled with your Emacs installation. If so, they can be viewed from within Emacs using the Info documentation browser. Type C-h i d m Emacs Lisp Intro or C-h i d m Elisp (C-h i for the Info browser, d for the top directory, and m for the manual).