Acrylamid is yet another static blog compiler written in python that aims to be lightweight, fast and producing high quality output. It is licensed under BSD Style, 2 clauses.
Why another static blog compiler, that's a valid question. So, why is Acrylamid better than X (pelican, hyde, nikola...): Acrylamid is faster than X, because incremental compilation is a core feature. Acrylamid is better, because you can not only use Markdown/reST/whatyoulike, you can even use all builtin extensions and more. Acrylamid has no custom header/body/filesystem layout. It uses well-known YAML and that's it.
Why not Acrylamid? Well, it's not well tested by different people with different requirements. It does not use multiple cores (currently no static blog framework does this, but I am working on this). The default layout is indeed not the most beautifulst. Acrylamid currently has no asset handling (naïve "copy tree" sucks).
Acrylamid is a mixture of nanoc, Pyblosxom and Pelican. It features mainly:
- blog articles, static pages, tags RSS/Atom feeds and an article overview
- theming support (using jinja2) and support for jinja2 directly in postings
- Markdown, reStructuredText, textile and pandoc
- Markdown extensions and custom reStructuredText directives
- MathML, modern web-typography and hyphenation using soft-hyphens
- RSS/Atom import, deployment and a handy CLI
- it's very flexible/configurable and fast
easy_install -U acrylamid
It has actually only one dependency, jinja2
but for convenience it also installs markdown
and translitcodec
. In addition it has support for PyYAML, reStructuredText, syntax highlighting using pygments, asciimathml to render MathML and finally smartypants for nicer typography.
easy_install -U docutils pygments asciimathml smartypants
Get acrylamid, edit conf.py and layouts/ and compile with:
$> acrylamid init myblog
create myblog/conf.py
...
$> cd myblog/
$> acrylamid compile && acrylamid view
warn using mtime from <fileentry f'content/sample entry.txt'>
create '/articles/index.html', written to output/articles/index.html
create 'Die Verwandlung', written to output/2011/die-verwandlung/index.html
create '/atom/index.html', written to output/atom/index.html
create '/rss/index.html', written to output/rss/index.html
create '/', written to output/index.html
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:8000/
I have released all sources from my personal blog: /posativ/blog.posativ.org/. Take a look at my conf.py for some inspiration.
You can apply various filter to a single entry, to a specific view or globally and Acrylamid resolves it automatically (some filters conflict with others so you can for example apply Markdown as global filter but render some entries with reStructuredText). Currently supported by acrylamid, see docs/filters.rst for detailed information:
- Markdown: rendering Markdown (+asciimathml,pygments,built-in extensions)
- reST: reStructuredText (+pygments)
- pandoc: Pandoc (+Markdown,textitle,rst,...)
- textile: using Textile as markup language
- HTML: don't render with filters mentioned above (it's a conflicting filter)
- typography: https://code.google.com/p/typogrify/ (and custom modifications)
- hyphenation: hyphenate words (len > 10) based on language
- summarize: summarizes posts to 200 words
- head_offset: decrease headings by offset
- jinja2: write jinja2 in your entries (you can also execute system calls therewith)
- acronyms: automatically replace acronyms and abbreviations to help unexperienced users
See commands
for a detailed overview.
%> acrylamid --help
Usage: acrylamid <subcommand> [options] [args]
Options:
-q, --quiet less verbose
-v, --verbose more verbose
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version print version details
Commands:
init initializes base structure in DIR
create (new) creates a new entry
compile (co) compile blog
view fire up built-in webserver
autocompile automatic compilation and serving (short aco)
clean (rm) remove abandoned files
import import content from URL
deploy run a given TASK
All subcommands except `init` require a conf.py file.