One of the goals for Niko­la, my sta­tic si­te/­blog ge­ne­ra­tor is that it should be ea­sy to ex­ten­d. For exam­ple, to­day I added su­pport for two ma­rkup­s: tex­ti­le and Creo­leWiki.

Sin­ce Niko­la al­ready su­pported HT­M­L, reS­truc­tu­re­dText and Ma­rk­do­wn, adding a cou­ple mo­re is not ve­ry di­ffi­cul­t. He­re's ho­w:

1. Crea­­te a .plu­­gin fi­­le like this one:

[Core]
Name = textile
Module = compile_textile

[Documentation]
Author = Roberto Alsina
Version = 0.1
Website = http://nikola.ralsina.me
Description = Compile Textile into HTML

Then you need to crea­te a py­thon mo­du­le ca­lled (in this ca­se) com­pi­le_­tex­ti­le.­py

That fi­le is boi­ler­pla­te plus two me­tho­d­s, com­pi­le_ht­ml and crea­te_­post

The com­pi­le_ht­ml me­thod takes two ar­gu­men­ts, one fi­le from whi­ch it rea­ds the ma­rku­p, and one to wri­te HT­M­L. Exam­ple:

def compile_html(self, source, dest):
    if textile is None:
        raise Exception('To build this site, you need to install the "textile" package.')
    try:
        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(dest))
    except:
        pass
    with codecs.open(dest, "w+", "utf8") as out_file:
        with codecs.open(source, "r", "utf8") as in_file:
            data = in_file.read()
        output = textile(data, head_offset=1)
        out_file.write(output)

Make su­re to use utf8 eve­r­yhe­re.

The crea­te_­post func­tion is us­ed to crea­te a new, emp­ty, post wi­th so­me me­ta­da­ta in it. Exam­ple:

def create_post(self, path, onefile=False, title="", slug="", date="", tags=""):
    with codecs.open(path, "wb+", "utf8") as fd:
        if onefile:
            fd.write('<notextile>  <!--\n')
            fd.write('.. title: %s\n' % title)
            fd.write('.. slug: %s\n' % slug)
            fd.write('.. date: %s\n' % date)
            fd.write('.. tags: %s\n' % tags)
            fd.write('.. link: \n')
            fd.write('.. description: \n')
            fd.write('--></notextile>\n\n')
        fd.write("\nWrite your post here.")

The me­ta­da­ta has to be in the form ".. field­na­me: fiel­d­va­lue" and usua­lly nee­ds to be wra­pped in a co­m­ment so that it's not sho­wn in the ou­tpu­t.

The one­fi­le pa­ra­me­ter means you ha­ve to wri­te that me­ta­da­ta in the pos­t. If it's Fal­se, you do­n'­t.

In so­me ra­re ca­ses (Creo­le, I am looking at you) co­m­men­ts are not su­pported and you should rai­se an ex­cep­tion if one­fi­le is True.

And tha­t's it, ma­rkup su­pport is fair­ly ea­sy to add as long as the­re is a py­thon im­ple­men­ta­tion of a func­tion to con­vert ma­rkup in­to ht­m­l.