Generate html from only dirty markup files

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Generate html from only dirty markup files #3

Open Softsun2 opened 8 months ago

Softsun2 commented 8 months ago

When walking markup files only build files that are out of date or "dirty". ~This will require at least a temporary solution for implementing file metadata. Compare file timestamp and metadata timestamp.~

Softsun2 commented 7 months ago

Pseudocode

for all source files
    if source file is younger than meta age
        build html then update source file meta age

Metadata format

Should be 10 lines max!
Header
structure options:
- special format that hopefully doesn't conflict with markup formats
- the first n-highlevel elements (could be verbatim text or something)
  - or we could "reverse engineer" an optional cleaner metadata block/header by building the structure semantically
- ~~A pandoc meta format (I think there are some supported across markup formats)~~ I was wrong about this.
- a lock-type file, so syntax collisions aren't a problem

Softsun2 commented 7 months ago

source markup -> reader -> filter metadata -> filter substitutions -> writer -> html

where filter metadata wraps whatever general metadata format I decide on into pandoc's metadata data type and filter substitutions replaces occurrences of $metadata-key$ with the metadata value.

Softsun2 commented 5 months ago

These comments are woefully overcomplicated. This problem does not require metadata at all. Though my work to implement metadata will not be used later.