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tdemin / gmnhg

Hugo-to-Gemini Markdown converter
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Make front matter data accessible to index pages #39

Closed tdemin closed 2 years ago

tdemin commented 3 years ago

gmnhg currently assumes users will type index page title and other metadata unrelated to content right in the Markdown file, essentially controlling rendering by themselves. This makes a user unable to use _index.md as the single source of index content for both the Gemini and the Web site.

This is partially why _index.gmi.md was a thing at all: not providing the user with the means to render metadata which would usually be controlled by the template would mean it would require an additional copy of the index page will the metadata tossed in.

mntn-xyz commented 3 years ago

While this would be helpful especially for new users, I personally use a different index page format for my Gemini site than I do for my WWW site... do you plan to continue allowing the current _index.gmi.md to override index contents?

tdemin commented 3 years ago

@mntn-xyz yes, since most capsules I've seen apply some kind of Gemini branding to a Gemini site, including mine.

It's just historical context: originally _index.gmi.md was made because initial renderer versions wouldn't properly process lists of links, a common feature to an index page. As the renderer got much better, I think _index.md can now be used as well if one exists and the _index.gmi.md doesn't.