+1

Jekyll is the business. 

Gerard (mobile)

> On 24 Jun 2015, at 22:14, Timothy Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This is excellent! I've used Jekyll before and love its simplicity, and I
> really detest pandoc, and it never felt correct to commit the generated
> html in addition to the markdown.
> 
> This will make contributing a lot more simple, convenient and natural.
> 
> 
> ~ Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 03:22:56PM -0400, Greg Wilson wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> The most common complaint about our current lesson template is that
>> it requires people to commit generated HTML as well as Markdown
>> source to the repository's gh-pages branch.  After a bit of
>> tinkering, we have put together a variation on the template that
>> uses Jekyll (the same tool that GitHub uses), so that people will
>> only need to commit the Markdown [1].  We've blogged about this at 
>> http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/06/using-jekyll-for-lessons.html
>> - we'd be grateful if you could tell us whether it's worth making
>> the change.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>> 
>> [1] People using R Markdown or Jupyter Notebooks will still need to
>> convert from those formats to plain old Markdown [2], then commit
>> that Markdown to the repo, but they have to do that now as well.
>> 
>> [2] We haven't built this bit yet - we want to see if the switch to
>> Jekyll is worthwhile first.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dr. Greg Wilson    | [email protected]
>> Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org
>> 
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