Getting the current year:
:bash: @year date +%Y
We need a doctype statement with a newline. We'll leverage Unix echo command for this.
:bash: @doctype echo ""
HTML pages have a head element so lets build that.
:set: @headBlock @pageTitle
Inside the body of a page HTML 5 supports a header element.
:set: @headerBlock
Likewise we have a footer that needs to be built.
:set: @footerBlock
Now let's use template.md as a page template converting it from markdown
into HTML.
:import-markdown: @pageTemplate template.md
Now its time to populate the data elements in the page.
:bash: @dateString date +%Y-%m-%d
:set: @blogTitle My Blog
:set: @pageTitle A Post
:import-markdown: @contentBlock post.md
Ok, we're ready to finally build the page. First we're going to
expand some labels to generate our full HTML markup.
:expand: @output @doctype@headBlock@headerBlock@pageTemplate@footerBlock
Here is what the markup looks like:
@output
Now we will write it out to a file. That file will be called post.html
:export: post.html @output
Take a look at post.html and see the results.