#Spool-Five Plaintext

This software was written for my own personal use with my blog spool-five.com. It is likely not of use outside of this context, though I haven't tested.

My spool-five blog is built using Hugo. The scripts in this repo take the same markdown files that are the source for the Hugo html, and create plaintext versions of these files. The intention is to have these served alongside the html version of the blog as an alternative, simpler file format. I had seen that Geoff Huston does this for his blog posts and I liked the idea of enabling access to other file formats.

In terms of the formatting of the plaintext versions of the blog posts, I took many of the styling conventions from Ruarí Ødegaard's gemtext to gopher bash script. I also used these conventions in my Gemtext to Gopher conversion scripts.

For links, which are inline in markdown (as opposed to on their own line in gemtext), these become numbered in the text and the links are placed below the paragraphs. For example:

This is a link to [foo](bar.com).

Becomes...

This is a link to foo[1].
=>bar.com