Convert txt2tags files to Markdown or HTML #11

Closed aureliojargas closed 5 years ago

My goal is to make the site simpler. See issue #1.

Currently, there are four kinds of content files in my website:

$ find . -name '*.t2t'  | wc -l
274
$ find . -name '*.md'   | wc -l                                                                   
138
$ find . -name '*.html' | wc -l                                                                 
1401
$ find . -name '*.txt'  | wc -l                                                                  
114
$

I would be happier if I could use just HTML and txt, and never have to convert anything. But life's hard, and I need a tool like Jekyll to automate things.

For now, I'm trying to reduce complexity.

The ideia is to remove the need to have txt2tags (my own tool) to convert files to HTML. It's kinda sad making this move, but Markdown is well supported everywhere an has excellent tooling. I can even try the GitHub Pages or GitLab Pages hosting in the future and save hosting costs. I also don't want to keep maintaining txt2tags forever, so it gotta go :(

Some very very old txt2ags files I will never update, they are legacy. Those could be converted to HTML and be done.
Other txt2tags files are areas of the site I still have interest in updating, so maybe Markdown would be best.

I still don't know if I will get 100% done, but I'll try.

Those are the site areas with txt2tags files:

[x] baterna
[x] c0d4r3
[x] correria
[x] curso
[x] doc
[x] email
[x] fvm
[x] include
[x] mac
[x] misc
[x] moneylog
[x] musica
[x] projects
[x] rac
[x] sed
[x] shell
[x] viagem
[x] vim

To see the updated area list, run:

find . -name '*.t2t' | grep -v '^\./_site/' | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq

Oh dear! Please dont abandon t2t !! r.

Current status:

$ find . -name '*.t2t' | grep -v '^\./_site/' | wc -l                                                                            
186

                            As of 2017.11.27 08:18:09 C.E.T.

Useful links for txt2tags mourners:-

STILL THERE https://txt2tags.org/tips.html https://txt2tags.org/userguide/thethreeuserinterfacesguiwebandcommandline AND https://linux.die.net/man/1/txt2tags https://mostlylinux.wordpress.com/textanddocument/txt2tagscheatsheet https://sourceforge.net/p/txt2tags/mailman/txt2tags-list/?page=1 R.I.P. http://bugs.txt2tags.org https://txt2tags.org/rules.html

There are some low hanging fruits there:

$ find . -name '*.t2t' | grep -v '^\./_site/' | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
     36 rac
     28 projects
     24 email
     21 moneylog
     14 include
     13 fvm
     13 doc
     10 shell
      9 correria
      7 vim
      7 curso
      2 c0d4r3
      1 baterna
$

Hey @Walckiers , I've fixed the missing /rules.html URL (done in https://github.com/txt2tags/website/commit/cb63754573523acb3a6223f104c7dd31da9fad91). Thanks for the report!

Current status:

$ find . -name '*.t2t' | grep -v '^\./_site/' | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
     36 rac
     28 projects
     21 moneylog
     11 include
     10 shell
      9 correria
      7 curso
$

Current status:

$ find . -name '*.t2t' | grep -v '^\./_site/' | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
     36 rac
     28 projects
      6 shell
      2 curso

Long may txt2tags flourish!
Last year, txt2tags made every one of the pages in our  Advent Calendar 
 http://users.skynet.be/watermael/nvrs_hri-ggAdventCalendar2017.html 
And the t2t pages for our 2018 Calendar are coming  along nicely...
Many thanks!

Richard H

 Yours 
 Richard H

After more than a year of commits, it's finally done.

A few were converted to Markdown, most were converted to plain HTML.

Now the only txt2tags files left in the repo are historical versions for the /shell/dialog/ document and two MagicPoint files that I don't really want to touch:

./curso/material/desenvolvedor/desenvolvedor.t2t
./curso/sdsl-2/desenvolvedor/desenvolvedor.t2t
./shell/dialog/index-v1.t2t
./shell/dialog/index-v2.t2t
./shell/dialog/index-v3.t2t
./shell/dialog/index-v4.t2t
./shell/dialog/index-v5.t2t
./shell/dialog/index-v6.t2t

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Convert txt2tags files to Markdown or HTML #11