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Lately I've been writing in xemacs on a Linux computer. Rather than type all the dumb html tags, I wrote a script that converts more or less obvious text markup to html.
An xml-structured metadata file stores fields such as title, keywords, the template to use in building the page, and an optional sort-order field for position on the contents page. Currently I use a web gui to the xml data file. The gui is generated by Perl scripts given metadata about the data structure. To make it more confusing, I use the same gui to maintain the metadata about the data structure.
The news and olds files use <date> tags to indicate date changes. The publish script replace date tags with html tags.
The category pages are generated from the xml metadata file and then formatted and built with the same routines as other pages.
The site-building Perl scripts are all cross-platform, using various libraries I’ve written over the last six years. They’re currently running on the Linux desktop.
The graphics were manipulated in Photoshop 5.5 on Windows.
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