bsml

bsml is a simple blog engine. given templates and some markdown files, bsml will set up a personal blog.
the goal is to allow users to focus on writing without having to worry about web development. of course, one can make their templates fancy, but at the core bsml is designed with simplicity first.

usage

create a folder for specific topics in ./articles
create a md file in ./articles/<category>
edit the variables in .bsmlrc as you see fit add an article title, author, date, and template file as follows

Article Name
Author
yyyy-mm-dd
<template file path>
link

if the author or date are unknown, write the respective value as $UNKNOWN (default: ?)
if you don't want the article to appear in the category links, leave the 5th line empty
after that, write the content of your article. markdown is supported and will be translated to html tags.
to generate all articles, run $ ./create.sh the articles will be available in ./build/<category>/<article>.html

todo

• generate links to other articles
• generate every article at once
• rss feed

template files

any valid html will work for a template file.
write $VARIABLE wherever you want the following information to be inserted, substituting "VARIABLE"
variables are stored in .bsmlrc
you can define more variables there as well

• $TITLE article title
• $AUTHOR author name
• $DATE date
• $CONTENT article content
• $FOOTER links to other articles
• $CATEGORY article category name
• $UNKNOWN character/string for missing values
• $HOME_PAGE path to whatever page, can be inserted in templates to link back