Posts tagged with "md2gemtext"

While it might seem that it's been pretty quiet on the Rogallo front the past few days, I've been doing some work on it every day. There are a lot of changes and improvements coming. As I got the next release ready, I realised that some of the support libraries I've built for it were stuck with 0.x versions while, at the same time, having proven to be quite stable.

So I've just made v1.0.0 updates to the following:

• html2gemtext
• md2gemtext
• port1900
• sybaritic

There are no material changes in any of these releases, the only real change being the bump to v1.0.0, and so marking them as stable and, of course, guaranteeing that semantic versioning promises are now in place.

Following on from html2gemtext, the inevitable has happened: I couldn't let the Markdown side of things remain unaddressed. While Rogallo v1.8.0 added some extra rendering of Markdown to make it look more "pretty", I felt it really needed to be handled so it had more utility. Being fully navigable, even by keyboard, seems more important than pretty tables.

So md2gemtext now exists as a library on PyPI. I have two plans for this. While I fully intend to shake up the Markdown support in Rogallo -- either replacing the use of the Textual Markdown widget to display it, or at least giving the user a configuration option to decide how Markdown is displayed -- I also want to pay some attention to my (currently rather simple) Gemini-based log and use this library to build a tool that will convert this blog's Markdown content into Gemtext that looks just how I want it.

As with html2gemtext, this is an early version of this library, and I'm sure there will be edge cases I'll have missed and will want to tidy up. But at the moment the results are looking promising.

I'm once again in a place where I'm actually half-seriously thinking that much of what Hike does could be built into Rogallo, if I were to simply add http(s) support there.