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Articulate

Articulate is a simple Jekyll plugin that aims to make long-form articles first-class citizens.

Canonical repository: http://gitorious.org/articulate

License

Copyright © 2013, Hugues Bruant hugues@bruant.info

Licensed under 2-clause BSD. See bsd.txt for details.

Dependencies

Source structure

├── _plugins    the actual plugin
├── _articles   sample article
└── _layouts    sample HTML templates

Install

  • copy _plugins/articulate.rb to your the plugins dir of your Jekyll site
  • copy _layouts/article_section.html to the layouts dir of your Jekyll site and adapt it to correctly integrate withyour existing layout. NOTE: you may want to copy the other article_* layouts. Although they are not required, they provide a good starting point to create your own special pages.

Usage

Articulate is based on three core concepts:

  • A "section" is a part of a longer article that can occupy its own page. Each section has its own source file, which may be in any format supported by Jekyll.
  • A "special page" is a generated page that does not correspond to a single source file. It is instanciated from a layout, using empty content but with access to all generated sections. A typical use case (in fact the reason that lead to the birth of Articulate) is to generate a print-friendly single-page version of the article.
  • An "article" is a collection of sections and an arbitrary number of special pages.

In practice, Articulate takes input of the following form:

_articles/
    foobar/
        _article.yml
        01-intro.md
        02-foo.md
        99-bar.md
    ...

Where each markdown file is a section.

The special _article.yml file is used to control special page generation and to specify article-wide Liquid-accessible variables, such as the article title (the only required variable).

Given the above input and the following _article.yml:

title: Foobar
synopsis: Rise and fall of the Foobar empire
special: [full, index]

The output would be:

articles/
    foobar/
        01-intro.html
        02-foo.html
        99-bar.html
        index.html
        full.html
    ...

The index.html and full.html pages being respectively generated from the article_index and article_full layouts.

The YAML frontmatter of an article section differs slightly from that of a regular page:

  • the section title MUST be specified in the name variable
  • the title variable is ignored: the page.title variable in Liquid is derived from the article and section titles
  • the layout variable is ignored: article_section is used to generate single-section pages.

Sections are ordered within the article by the alphabetical order of the source files, hence the use of numerical prefixes in the example above. Each section is assigned a numerical index (0-based), Liquid-accessible as page.index.

The following variable structure is Liquid-accessible in all article-aware pages (i.e. articles sections and special pages):

article:
    title: Foobar
    # any other value specified in _article.yml
    special:
        full:
            url: /articles/foobar/full.html
        index:
            url: /articles/foobar/index.html
        ...
    sections: [
        {
            url: /articles/foobar/01-foo.html
            path: ./_articles/foobar/01-foo.md
            name: Foo is magic
            title: Foobar : Foo is magic
            index: 1
            content: "..." # fully transformed section content
            # any other value specified in frontmatter
        },
        ...
    ]

Articulate honors the following _config.yml options:

  • articles: path in which to look for input articles

    default: ./_articles

  • articles_dest: path in which to write the generated pages

    default: ./articles

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