linkdown

Build static webpages with Markdown, reStructuredText, Jinja2 templates, LESS or some recent tools.

• Built in Twitter Bootstrap template
• Built in web server for development
• linkdown watch your file changes and convert them automatically
• Automatic content list generator for Markdown and reStructuredText in Bootstrap template (Shown in bottom)

Requirements

• Python

  • Python 2.7
  • jinja2
  • markdown
  • watchdog
  • Docutils
  • rst2html5

• Nodejs

  • less
  • coffeescript

How to install

1. Install Python 2.7 and NodeJS

   • I recommend to use MacPorts or Homebrew to install them if you are Mac OS X user.

2. Install LESS and CoffeeScript

   • If you don't use LESS and CoffeeScript, you don't have to instal them.

3. Install pip

   • I recommend to use virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper

4. Install linkdown

   • just pip install linkdown
   • All dependencies will be installed automatically

Quick Start

1. Initialize project directory

   linkdown init --template bootstrap projectdir

2. Change directory

   cd projectdir

3. Run server, file observer and converter. linkdown detects file modification event and convert automatically.

   linkdown all -ws or make

4. Make your content under source directory

License & Copyright

Linkdown

Copyright (C) 2012 Y.OKAMURA

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Twitter Bootstrap

Copyright 2012 Twitter, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file, or at:

<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

jQuery

Copyright 2012 jQuery Foundation and other contributors

<http://jquery.com/>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

References

Read jinja2, markdown, coffeescript and less documents to write. Of course, you can use plain JavaScript and CSS (But not plain HTML).

• Jinja2
• Markdown
• LESS
• CoffeeScript
• reStructuredText
• Bootstrap