Ratafia Currant

A repository for everything I write or make for use with my blog (excepting images).

Contents

The themes directory holds a few Tumblr themes I’ve made.

The entries directory holds most of the stuff I’ve written for my blog. The formatting is in [Markdown][mdown], with some additions to handle my needs. The format is thoroughly documented, and I’ve written an accompanying validator.

First-party entries

All first-party entries use the following directory structure:

/yyyyy/Month/dd/format/safe_title.rc

That is:

• Five-digit publication year, with initial zero as needed.
• Full name of month as declared in the Gregorian calendar, using US English names (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, December).
• Two-digit day number, again following the rules of the Gregorian calendar, with initial zero as needed.
• Name of entry’s publication format. (e.g. text, image, audio).
• Cross-platform-safe form of entry’s title. This basically means following standard URL rules, with the exceptions that spaces and any Unicode codepoints outside the range of ASCII are acceptable.

For non-text entries, there will always be an accompanying .rc file that describes the entry and uses the title. Thus, given an image /02008/January/01/image/fireworks.jpg there will be a file /02008/January/01/image/fireworks.rc with metadata about the image.

Third-party entries

Third-party material is published under /documents/document_title.rc.