On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Tom Swan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a writer and a musician, and my system is tailored to be a _writer's_
> system, not necessarily a programmer's. Only Asciidoctor, Asciidoctor-pdf
> and a text editor are required (I use Sublime Text 3).  My goal is to have a
> system that I can use to write articles, code examples (mia is a very early
> example), book-length manuscripts,


and that is precisely what I want.

I haven't played with stylefactory, mostly because of Compass/SASS
junk. Atom has a really cool plugin to extract style-able elements
from an HTML document and create a CSS file for me, which I can then
modify to my liking. Brackets lets me do that with live reload and
makes media queries for responsive design (relatively) easy.

I have been talking a little with Jared Henley about updating
http://jared.henley.id.au/software/awb/[AsciiDoc Website Builder]. It
has a similar kludgey template system to other static site builders,
though, so I'm not convinced it's the right way to go for me. The
documentation is somewhat lacking, as well; which is to say, while
attempting to set up a basic test site, I ran into several questions
not answered in the docs.

Essentially, I want the hardest part of my site building to be
creating content. OK, initially, styling will be a bit of a bear. That
might take me a week to get it right. I can live with that. Dealing
with all the multiple templates and CSS files is a big part of why I
got away from WordPress. It's horrible; and every static sitebuilder
uses the same model. What a nightmare. No thanks. Not for me.

Also, I write wherever I happen to be. That often means I'm writing on
my phone - yes, awkward, but it puts words in a file for later
editing. I need to be able to arbitrarily create a new file and not
muck around with <sitebuilder> -newpage <title> because I simply can't
do it from there. Dropbox handles change propagation between devices.
It also handles (limited) version control but since I'll be publishing
with GitLab pages, real versioning will take place via Git.

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"Grand Curmudgeon" :: International Discordance of Kilted Apiarists, Local #994.

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