fedizine

Fediverse Fanzine

Using the template engine

For template engine bash-tpl is used. Bash-tpl template engine allows for bash injections into templates. I hope that most of options required are displayed in the example, since I have no idea what kind of design is coveted for fedizine.

Templating is split into 3 stages. 0. Template and structure preparation

1. Data population
2. Template population

0. Template and structure preparation

Curently there are two monthly templates: fedizine_monthly_template.html and fedizine_monthly_template.md. Those desribe a montly edition of fedizine.

First action to be done is to call generate_templates.sh.

generate_templates.sh april 6

generate_templates.sh expects two arguments: folder name and amount of contestants. After calling the script folder april will be created with proper folder structure inside. There would be two template scripts and a template_data folder.

Note that running generate_templates.sh on an already created folder structure whould not destroy edits in generated files

1. Data population

After folder structure is created, head to template_data and edit title.txt. It contains overall data for this months edition of fedizine. Next step is to descend into contestants folder. It contains folders named contestant_1...n. Each describes one of the fedizine authors. Note that you can rename those folders however you like. Descend into contestant_... folder. It would contain a bio.txt which holds contestant name and small one liner description. Then it also contains two folders: wholesome and lewd. Wholesome folder should contain SFW works while lewd is designated for NSFW.

Do not hesitate to leave folders open or delete them. I left checks in place.

Template population

Once all data put in it's respective places, run generate_files.sh.

generate_files.sh april

This will parse april folder and create 4 files in april:

• fedizine.html
• fedizine.md
• fedizine-html.pdf
• fedizine-md.pdf

fedizine.html - contains html template presumable for a web server fedizine.md - contains markdown, used mainly for pdf generation fedizine-html.pdf - a pdf file generated from fedizine.html fedizine-md.pdf - a pdf file generated from fedizine.md

Note! Pandoc does not crunch .webp format. If any of the images are .webp, pdf generation WILL fail.