# YBlog - Get my blog engine
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# Get my blog engine

I published a light version of my blog engine based on nanoc yesterday night. By light, I mean a lighter, more portable CSS (without round border). You can get it on github.com.

What this system provide?

- All nanoc advantages,
- Easy multi-language handling,
- Syntax Coloration for most languages,
- intenseDebate comments integration (asynchronous) ;
- Portable with and without javascript, XHTML Strict 1.0 / CSS3,
- Write in markdown format (no HTML editing needed),
- Typographic ameliorations (no ‘:’ starting a line in French for example),
- Graphviz graph generation integration.

# Main Documentation Page

# Use It NOW!

Once installed (follow the README.md instructions).

    $ cd /root/of/nanoc3_blog
    $ ./task/new_blog_entry Title of the blog
    $ vi latest.md
    $ ./task/recompile

Now your website reside into the `output` directory.

# Documentation

## Useful things to know

### Multi-language

All files in `multi` are processed and copied in the `content` directory. For each file in multi, each line starting by ‘`fr:`’ are copied (without the `fr:` into the `content/html/fr/` tree, but not into the `content/html/en` tree. File not starting by `fr:` or `en:` are copied in each destinations.

If you want to add another language, you’ll have to modify `tasks/config`, and `config.yaml`, create a `content/html/xx` where `xx` is the language code.

### Edition & Rendering

#### additional keywords

You can separate multi content div using the: `n``ewcorps` directive (see examples).

You can create div using `b``egindiv(classname)`, `e``nddiv`. (See some existing blog entries for example). Use the class `intro` for the abstract part.

You can create nice description table using `<``desc>` (See source code for example).

#### Typography

In French all ‘:’, ‘;’, ‘!’ and ‘?’ are preceded automatically by `&nbsp`. This enable not to have a line starting by a single special character.

You can use small caps using `<sc>` tags.

- `(c``)` is replaced by (c).
- `(r``)` is replaced by (r).
- `<``-` is replaced by <-.
- `-``>` is replaced by ->.

#### source code

To write source code you should use the following format:

~~~~~~ {.html} ~~~~~~ {.ruby} The code ~~~~~~

The `file` attribute is not required.

### blog

If you want to make really long blog post, you can separate them into many files. To accomplish that, you simply have to make your files like:

    multi/blog/2010-06-01-the-title.md
    multi/blog/2010-06-01-the-title/second_part.md
    multi/blog/2010-06-01-the-title/third_part.md

### mobileme

All files are intended to be generated into the `output/Scratch` directory. This was made like that to work nicely with iWeb organisation of websites.

### menu

The order of post is done using the `menupriority` meta-data in the header of the files.

You can hide some file from the menu by setting: `isHidden: true` in the header.

## Details

To know more about this blog engine, you should look at nanoc project.

Then look at the files inside your project:

<desc> README.md : readme for the project (used by github) :: latest.md : symbolic link to the last blog entry :: multi/ : Directory containing multi-language articles :: tasks/ : scripts for website live :: config.yaml : global configuration file :: Rules : generation rules :: content/ : content files processed by nanoc :: layouts/ : erb templates :: lib/ : ruby libraries used to process files :: output/ : website :: Rakefile : not mandatory for this blog :: </desc>

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Published on 2010-06-15
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