Re: [ANN] guile-commonmark 0.1 (A markdown parser)

[Erik Edrosa]

On 07/25/2016 09:44 AM, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Erik Edrosa <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> As a bonus for haunt users, here is an example using guile-commonmark as
>> a reader to generate a blog written in markdown.
>>
>>     (use-modules (haunt asset)
>>                  (haunt builder blog)
>>                  (haunt builder atom)
>>                  (haunt reader)
>>                  (haunt site)
>>                  (haunt post)
>>                  (commonmark))
>>
>>     (define commonmark-reader
>>       (make-reader (make-file-extension-matcher "md")
>>                    (lambda (file)
>>                      (call-with-input-file file
>>                        (lambda (port)
>>                          (values (read-metadata-headers port)
>>                                  (commonmark->sxml port)))))))
>>
>>     (site #:title "Built with Guile"
>>           #:domain "example.com"
>>           #:default-metadata
>>           '((author . "Eva Luator")
>>             (email  . "address@hidden"))
>>           #:readers (list commonmark-reader)
>>           #:builders (list (blog)
>>                            (atom-feed)
>>                            (atom-feeds-by-tag)))
>>
>> Now just save the above as haunt.scm and put your markdown blog posts in
>> the posts directory with a .md extension and run `haunt build`. Here is
>> an example blog post:
>>
>>     title: Hello World!
>>     date: 2016-07-24 10:00
>>     tags: guile, commonmark, scheme
>>     ---
>>
>>     A CommonMark Document
>>     ===============
>>     Here is some *scheme* `code`
>>     ```scheme
>>     (display "Hello, World!")
>>     ```
>>
>>     1. A list
>>     2. Another item in a list
>>
>>     Read more about [CommonMark](http://commonmark.org/)
>>
>>
>> Please note the header on top portion of the post which allows you to
>> add metadata to your blog posts for haunt.
> 
> This is just wonderful! Thank you!
> 
> If you have the time/motivation, I would love to see a patch to Haunt
> itself that adds guile-commonmark as an optional dependency.  There's
> prior art for this because guile-reader is also optional, so it would
> mostly be a copy/paste job in configure.ac and Makefile.am to
> conditionally include the markdown reader module in the list of source
> modules.
> 
> - Dave
> 

Definitely, I have been playing around with haunt and managed to switch
my current blog to use haunt and guile-commonmark. I have a couple of
ideas to add to haunt, so I will hopefully be sending you some patches soon.

Thanks,
Erik