I need a more complex post to test how this blog format will work out. We'll include samples of various Spartan content types.
This is the quote of the day. I should have looked up some pithy quote by somebody more interesting than me, but I didn't. -- me
Here is the current version of the "bp" blog post helper script.
#!/usr/bin/bash
# bp - a Spartan blog helper to create a new blog post
# Where is the blog directory?
blogdir=~/public_spartan/blog
fname=$(date -Iminutes) # get current date and time
cdate="${fname/T/ }" # capture file creation date for potential use in the post text
fname="${fname%-*}.gmi" # create a name for the file.
# Create the new file.
printf "# new\n\ntext\n\nš
_c: %s āļø e: \ntags: #new\n" "${cdate%-*}" >> "$blogdir/$fname"
# Verify that the file was created? No, if the editor opens an empty file it will be obvious something is wrong.
echo "New post is at: $blogdir/$fname" # This makes it easy to re-edit the file if you need to.
# Edit the new post
"$EDITOR" "$blogdir/$fname" # ToDo: check whether $EDITOR is set?
# Display the result so you can review it for errors.
cat "$blogdir/$fname"
There is not a table type included in gemtext, but preformatted text can be used to display tabular data. I don't have a good sample data table already built so here is a scrap from another document that I can quickly paste in.
āāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¬āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¬āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¬āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā
ā Note ā 1952 ā 1966 ā 2015 ā
āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāŖāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāŖāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāŖāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā”
ā ā This is the text as I ā ā ā
ā ā copied it from my ā ā ā
ā ā mother's signed and ā ā The current text as ā
ā ā framed document from ā ā available as ā
ā ā 1952. It may have been ā I copied this text from ā ā
ā ā in use in this form ever ā my own document that I ā [SOLDIER'S COVENANT] ā
ā Source ā since the 1880s; it ā signed in December ā ā
ā ā appears to have been ā 1966. ā at The Salvation Army ā
ā ā quoted in Thomas H. ā ā International ā
ā ā Huxley's ā ā ā
ā ā [Legal Opinions] ā ā ā
āāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¤
ā Title ā Articles of War ā Articles of War ā SOLDIER'S COVENANT ā
āāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¤
ā ā ā ā (Promises made when ā
ā ā Signed by all Salvation ā Signed by all Salvation ā becoming a soldier in ā
ā Explanation ā Army Soldiers ā Army Soldiers ā The Salvation Army. ā
ā ā ā ā Formerly called ā
ā ā ā ā 'Articles of War'.) ā
āāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¤
ā ā Having received with all ā Having received with ā ā
ā ā my heart the salvation ā all my heart the ā ā
ā ā offered to me by the ā Salvation offered to me ā ā
ā ā tender mercy of Jehovah, ā by the tender mercy of ā ā
ā ā I do here and now ā God, I do here and now ā HAVING accepted Jesus ā
ā ā publicly acknowledge God ā acknowledge God the ā Christ as my Saviour ā
ā ā the Father to be my ā Father to be my King; ā and Lord, and desiring ā
ā ā king, God the Son, Jesus ā God the Son, Jesus ā to fulfil my membership ā
ā Motivation ā Christ our Lord, to be ā Christ our Lord, to be ā of His Church on earth ā
ā ā my Saviour, God the Holy ā my Saviour; and God the ā as a soldier of The ā
ā ā Spirit to be my Guide, ā Holy Spirit to be my ā Salvation Army, I now ā
ā ā Comforter, and Strength; ā Guide, Comforter and ā by God's grace enter ā
ā ā and I will, by His help, ā Strength; and I will, ā into a sacred covenant. ā
ā ā love, serve, worship and ā by His help, love, ā ā
ā ā obey this glorious God ā serve, worship, and ā ā
ā ā through time and through ā obey this glorious God ā ā
ā ā eternity. ā through time and ā ā
ā ā ā through eternity. ā ā
āāāāāāāāāāāāāāā“āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā“āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā“āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā
Of course we should include a list.
My, what a pitiful list that was.
There must a level3 heading:
And here it is.
I think we're done here, for now.
Now it is time to test, test, test using the varios Spartan clients I have installed. So far, I am satisfied with what I'm seeing in both GUI and text-mode clients. Once I resolve the file-name, date-sorted index list issue (discussed in my Spartan [blog] working document) I think it's ready for regular use.
[blog]š c: 2022-07-14 08:10 āļøe: 2022-07-14 15:11
tags: #test #gemtext