Comment by DarkChyper on 29/04/2023 at 08:38 UTC

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View submission: A simple Git-based blogging platform and SSG that lets you dual-host on Gemini and the Web

That's funny that most of people who create a gemlog create a script that make both Gemini capsules and static html page. I do the same with php, https://gitlab.com/DarkChyper/gemblog[1] ant it's directly inspired of another blog/gemlog made with Python. gemini://ploum.net

1: https://gitlab.com/DarkChyper/gemblog

I'm curious how you did it in bash ! I will read your repository :)

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Comment by SnooDingos2835 at 29/04/2023 at 13:43 UTC

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It was actually quite trivial to create a Gemtext parser in Bash. At it's core the script is just a loop that iterates over every line in a gmi file and matches the first few characters to find Gemtext elements. From there it inserts equivalent HTML tags into a corresponding HTML file.

Most of the magic happens in the CSS. Without that, the generated site would look and feel very plain.