While drafting a blog post, part of a series of posts intended to be published in the future, I discovered a lack of my tooling in Nikola. When adding mathematical formulas, I realized that there is no default-way of rendering images from those math formulas, and inserting them as image-tags into the html. Instead math formulas are handled via JS, which I try to reduce to an absolute minimum on my site. So I started to implement a rather quick-and-dirty plugin to do exactly this transformation, using latex and dvipng or dvisvgm. Then I come across this blog post where reading about asciidoc written in python and its successor asciidoctor written in ruby supporting different display formats. Ideal for the content I had in mind. So I installed the Nikola plugin asciidoc (which is mostly a wrapper to the asciidoc binary called as a subprocess), via
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Bagatto, a New Static Site Generator : The last few weeks I've been in a bit of a ferment of inspiration. The output of my fermentation has been [Bagatto][bag], a static site generator written in the Lisp [Janet][janet].