\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- @c %**start of header @setfilename haunt.info @documentencoding UTF-8 @settitle Haunt Reference Manual @c %**end of header @include version.texi @copying Copyright @copyright{} 2015-2021 David Thompson@* Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. @end copying @dircategory Web development @direntry * Haunt: (haunt). Haunt, the functional static site generator. @end direntry @titlepage @title Haunt Reference Manual @subtitle Using Haunt @author The Haunt Developers @page @vskip 0pt plus 1filll Edition @value{EDITION} @* @value{UPDATED} @* @insertcopying @end titlepage @contents @node Top @top Haunt This document describes Haunt version @value{VERSION}, an extensible, functional static site generator. @menu * Introduction:: About Haunt. * Installation:: Installing Haunt. * Tutorial:: How to get started quickly. * Command-line Interface:: Using Haunt from the command-line. * Programming Interface:: Using the Haunt API in Scheme. * Contributing:: How to contribute to Haunt. * GNU Free Documentation License:: The license of this manual. * Concept Index:: Concepts. * Programming Index:: Data types, procedures, syntax, and variables. @end menu @node Introduction @chapter Introduction Haunt is a hackable static site generator written in Guile Scheme. A static site generator assists an author with generating the HTML pages that they publish on the web. Unlike ``content management systems'' such as Wordpress or Drupal, static site generators are not dynamic web applications (complete with a relational database) that build pages on-the-fly. Instead, web pages are built in advance, on the author's computer, and copied to a web server when it is time to publish changes. The consequence of this design is that the web server no longer needs to run a complex, potentially insecure web application that connects to a database to retrieve data. Static files can be served easily by any generic web server. Since there is no web application or database server to deal with, static websites are easier to maintain, more secure, and resistant to high web traffic (``slashdotting.'') Furthermore, the entire website is stored in plain text, which allows the files to be version-controlled rather than kept in a relational database with no concept of history that needs to be backed up regularly. At the time that Haunt was conceived, there existed literally hundreds of other static site generators. Why add another one? Haunt differentiates itself from most other static site generators in that it aspires to the Emacs philosophy of ``practical software freedom.'' Not only is the source code available under a Free Software license, as most static site generators are, it is designed to be easily hacked and extended without altering the core source code. Haunt purposefully blurs the line between document and program, author and programmer, by embracing the notion of data as code. A Haunt-based website is not simply data, but a computer program. This design strategy encourages authors to automate repetitive tasks and empowers them to extend the software with their own ideas. To make such a system work well, a general-purpose, extensible programming language is needed. A traditional configuration file format simply will not do. The programming language that we feel is best suited to this task is Scheme, a clean and elegant dialect of Lisp. We believe that by giving authors the full expressive power of Scheme, they will be able to produce better websites and make better use of their time than with less programmable systems and less capable programming languages. Authors should feel empowered to hack the system to make it do what they want rather than what some programmer decided they should want. And perhaps most importantly, building websites with Haunt should be @emph{fun}. Websites written in Haunt are described as purely functional programs that accept ``posts'', text documents containing arbitrary metadata, as input and transform them into complete HTML pages using Scheme procedures. Haunt has no opinion about what markup language authors should use to write their posts and will happily work with any format for which a ``reader'' procedure exists. Likewise, Haunt also has no opinion about how authors should structure their sites, but has sane defaults. Currently, there exist helpful ``builder'' procedures that do common tasks such as generating a blog or Atom feed. While the built-in features may be enough for some, they surely will not be enough for all. Haunt's Scheme API empowers authors to easily tweak existing components, write replacements, or add entirely new features that do things no else has thought to do yet. Happy haunting! @node Installation @chapter Installation @menu * Downloading:: Downloading the source code. * Requirements:: Software needed to build and run Haunt. * Building:: Building from source code. @end menu @node Downloading @section Downloading Official Haunt source code release tarballs can be found under Releases in @url{https://dthompson.us/projects/haunt.html, Haunt's website}, along with their associated checksums. @node Requirements @section Requirements Haunt depends on the following packages: @itemize @item @url{https://gnu.org/software/guile, GNU Guile} version 2.0.11 or later @end itemize The following dependencies are optional: @itemize @item @url{http://www.nongnu.org/guile-reader/, Guile-Reader} version 0.6 or later (for Skribe support) @item @url{https://github.com/OrangeShark/guile-commonmark, guile-commonmark} version 0.1 or later (for CommonMark support) @item @url{https://rsync.samba.org/, rsync} version 0.2 or later (for rsync publishing) @item @url{https://sr.ht/~emersion/hut/, hut} version 0.2 or later (for Sourcehut publishing) @item @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, Tar} (for Sourcehut publishing) @end itemize @node Building @section Building Haunt uses the standard GNU build system, so the basic installation procedure looks like this: @example ./configure make make install @end example This will install Haunt to @file{/usr/local/}. This is not part of the default load path for GNU Guile if you installed it from your distribution's package manager (@file{/usr} is.) You may choose to change the prefix to your GNU Guile's location with @code{./configure --prefix=/usr} or add @file{/usr/local/} to GNU Guile's load path in your shell environment like this (replacing 3.0 with your GNU Guile version): @example export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/usr/local/share/guile/site/3.0\ $@{GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:@}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH" export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="/usr/local/lib/guile/3.0/site-ccache\ $@{GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH:+:@}$GUILE_COMPILED_LOAD_PATH" @end example (@pxref{Environment Variables, Environment Variables,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual} for more details on @env{GUILE_LOAD_PATH} and @env{GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH}.) @node Tutorial @chapter Tutorial The goal of this tutorial is to quickly create a barebones blog with Haunt in order to demonstrate the basic workflow and key concepts. First, create a directory for the new site: @example mkdir haunt-tutorial cd haunt-tutorial @end example Next, create the site configuration file @file{haunt.scm}. This is where all of the code for building the website will go. Here's what a simple Haunt configuration looks like: @example (use-modules (haunt asset) (haunt site) (haunt builder blog) (haunt builder atom) (haunt reader skribe)) (site #:title "My First Haunt Site" #:domain "example.com" #:default-metadata '((author . "Eva Luator") (email . "eva@@example.com")) #:readers (list skribe-reader) #:builders (list (blog) (atom-feed) (atom-feeds-by-tag))) @end example Haunt represents the full configuration of the website using the @code{site} procedure. Site objects specify things like the site title, the default metadata to use for posts, which markup formats are supported, and which builders are used to generate web pages. With the above code saved into the @file{haunt.scm} file, the next step is to create a @file{posts} directory and populate it with articles to publish. Put the text below into a file named @file{posts/hello.skr}: @example (post :title "Hello, World!" :date (make-date* 2015 10 15) :tags '("hello") (h1 [Hello, World!]) (p [This is my very first Skribe document!])) @end example This is a @url{http://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/doc/user-3.html#skribe-syntax, Skribe} document. Skribe is one of the built-in languages that Haunt knows how to work with. It's basically Scheme, but with support for writing literal text without quoting it all by enclosing it in square brackets. The code above defines a post named ``Hello, World!'' with a publishing date of 2015-10-15, whose contents are just a single heading and a paragraph. To build the site, run @command{haunt build} to compile all of the HTML pages. To view the results, run @command{haunt serve} and visit @url{http://localhost:8080} in a web browser. @command{haunt serve} is a handy utility that serves the contents of the website using Guile's built-in HTTP server. Since the blog builder was specified in @file{haunt.scm}, the default index page is a simple listing of all posts, which for now is a single post. Clicking on the post title will display a page with only that post's contents. In addition to the basic blog builder, the @file{haunt.scm} file specifies two additional builders for Atom feeds. The @code{atom-feed} builder creates a feed of all posts located at @url{http://localhost:8080/feed.xml}. The @code{atom-feeds-by-tag} builder creates one feed for each unique tag specified in the post metadata. There's only one tag right now, ``hello'', and its feed is located at @url{http://localhost/feeds/tags/hello.xml}. Tweaking a post, rebuilding the site, and viewing the results in a web browser is the typical Haunt workflow. However, having to run @command{haunt build} every after each edit is tedious. To address this, run @command{haunt serve --watch}. The Haunt web server, in addition to serving web pages, will now watch for changes to important files and automatically rebuild the site when they are edited. This streamlines the workflow into an edit, save, view loop. Now that we've introduced the basic utilities and concepts, continue reading this manual to learn more about Haunt's command-line and programming interfaces. @node Command-line Interface @chapter Command-line Interface @menu * Invoking haunt build:: Build the website. * Invoking haunt serve:: Serve the website over HTTP. * Invoking haunt publish:: Publish the website. @end menu The Haunt command-line interface is composed of many subcommands. The general syntax for all Haunt commands is: @example haunt @var{subcommand} @var{options}@dots{} @end example @node Invoking haunt build @section Invoking @command{haunt build} The @command{haunt build} command realizes a Haunt site configuration file by compiling web pages and copying static assets to the output directory. For details on how to configure a Haunt site, @pxref{Sites}. Example: @example haunt build --config=haunt.scm @end example @table @code @item --config=@var{configuration-file} @itemx -c @var{configuration-file} Load the Haunt site declaration from @var{configuration-file}. @end table @node Invoking haunt serve @section Invoking @command{haunt serve} The @command{haunt serve} command allows one to quickly view a local preview of the generated website before publishing the finished product to a remote web server. When @command{haunt serve} runs, a local HTTP server is spawned. Visit the server using a web browser to inspect the results of the build. By default, the web server listens on port 8080, so the URL to visit would be @url{http://localhost:8080}. While developing, it is common to rebuild the site frequently to view the results of incremental changes. Rather than manually running @command{haunt build} (@ref{Invoking haunt build}) each time changes are made, the @code{--watch} flag can be used to automatically rebuild the site when a source file changes on disk. @table @code @item --config=@var{configuration-file} @itemx -c @var{configuration-file} Load the Haunt site declaration from @var{configuration-file}. @item --port=@var{port} @itemx -p @var{port} Listen for HTTP requests on @var{port}. Defaults to 8080. @item --host=@var{host} @itemx -p @var{host} Listen for HTTP requests on @var{host}. Accepts an IP address (IPv4 or IPv6), @code{localhost} or @code{loopback} to serve on the local loopback device (the default), or @code{any} to bind on all local available ports (useful if you want to show off your website to someone else on your LAN, or something.) @item --watch @itemx -w Automatically rebuild the site when source files change. @end table @node Invoking haunt publish @section Invoking @command{haunt publish} The @command{haunt publish} command deploys the site to a remote location. The site must have already been built via @command{haunt build} before running @command{haunt publish}. Usage: @example haunt publish @end example By default, Haunt uses the publisher named @code{production} defined for the current site. However, Haunt supports multiple publishers. Consider the use case where an author wants to publish to a staging environment to confirm that everything looks good on a real web server before publishing to production. To use a non-production publisher, simply say so at the command line: @example haunt publish staging @end example For details on how to configure publishers, @pxref{Publishers}. @node Programming Interface @chapter Programming Interface @menu * Sites:: Description of the site and how to build it. * Posts:: Articles, prose, blog posts, etc. * Readers:: Post interpreters. * Builders:: Web page builders. * Publishers:: How to publish your site. * Artifacts:: The build outputs that form a website. * Assets:: Images, stylesheets, etc. @end menu Haunt is a fully-programmable system composed of several Guile Scheme modules. This section documents the public API. @node Sites @section Sites @example (use-modules (haunt site)) @end example A site object defines all of the properties for a Haunt website: The site name, domain name, where blog posts are found, what post formats are understood, which procedures are used to build the site, where the output files are written to, etc. @deffn {Procedure} site [#:title "This Place is Haunted"] @ [#:domain "example.com"] [#:posts-directory "posts"] @ [#:file-filter @code{default-file-filter}] @ [#:build-directory "site"] [#:default-metadata '()] @ [#:make-slug @code{post-slug}] [#:readers '()] @ [#:builders '()] [#:publishers '()] Create a new site object. All arguments are optional: @table @var @item title The name of the site. @item posts-directory The directory where posts are found. @item file-filter A predicate procedure that returns @code{#f} when a post file should be ignored, and @code{#t} otherwise. Emacs temporary files are ignored by default. @item build-directory The directory that generated pages are stored in. @item default-metadata An alist of arbitrary default metadata for posts whose keys are symbols. @item make-slug A procedure generating a file name slug from a post. @item readers A list of reader objects for processing posts. @item builders A list of procedures for building pages from posts. @item publishers A list of publisher objects for upload site contents to a remote location @end table @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site? @var{obj} Return @code{#t} if @var{obj} is a site object. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-title @var{site} Return the title of @var{site}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-domain @var{site} Return the domain of @var{site}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-posts-directory @var{site} Return the posts directory for @var{site}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-file-filter @var{site} Return the file filter procedure for @var{site}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-build-directory @var{site} Return the build directory of @var{site}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-make-slug @var{site} Return the slug constructor for @var{site}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-readers @var{site} Return the list of reader procedures for @var{site}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-builders @var{site} Return the list of builder procedures for @var{site}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} site-publishers @var{site} Return the list of publisher objects for upload @var{site} contents to a remote location. @end deffn @node Posts @section Posts @example (use-modules (haunt post)) @end example Posts represent the articles that are kept in a site's post directory and written in a markup format that Haunt can understand. @xref{Readers} for how files on disk can be transformed into posts. @deffn {Procedure} make-post @var{file-name} @var{metadata} @var{sxml} Create a new post object that represents the contents of the file @var{file-name}. The body of the post, @var{sxml}, is represented as an SXML tree (@pxref{SXML, SXML,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}) and the metadata is an association list (@pxref{Association Lists, Association Lists,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}) of arbitrary key/value pairs. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post? @var{object} Return @code{#t} if @var{object} is a post. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post-file-name @var{post} Return the file name for @var{post}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post-metadata @var{post} Return the metadata association list for @var{post}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post-sxml @var{post} Return the SXML tree for @var{post}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post-ref @var{post} @var{key} Return the metadata value corresponding to @var{key} within @var{post}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post-slug @var{post} Transform the title of @var{post} into a URL slug suitable for the file name of a web page. @end deffn The original @code{post-slug} procedure above has some less than ideal behavior. One issue is that version numbers like ``1.2.3'' get transformed to ``123'' rather than something more sensible like ``1-2-3''. Unfortunately, changing this behavior would mean breaking the URLs for existing Haunt sites. Instead, users may opt-in to using @code{post-slug-v2} by passing it as the @code{#:make-slug} argument to @code{make-site}. @xref{Sites} for more information. @deffn {Procedure} post-slug-v2 post Transform the title of @var{post} into a URL slug. This second revision does a better job than the original. @end deffn @defvr {Variable} %default-date The default date of a post when no other date is specified in the metadata association list. @end defvr @deffn {Procedure} post-date @var{post} Return the date for @var{post}, or @code{%default-date} if no date is specified. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} posts/reverse-chronological @var{posts} Sort @var{posts}, a list of posts, in reverse chronological order. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post-author @var{post} Return the author of @var{post}, or @code{#f} if no author is specified. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post-tags @var{post} Return list of tags for @var{post}, or the empty list if no tags are specified. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} post-title @var{post} Return the title of @var{post}, or @code{#f} if no title is specified. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} posts/group-by-tag @var{posts} Create an association list of tags mapped to the posts in the list @var{posts} that used them. @end deffn @node Readers @section Readers @menu * Reader:: Reader interface and basic readers * Texinfo:: Texinfo reader * Skribe:: Skribe reader * CommonMark:: CommonMark reader @end menu @node Reader @subsection Reader @example (use-modules (haunt reader)) @end example The purpose of a reader is to translate the markup within a post file into an SXML tree representing the HTML structure and associate some metadata with it. @deffn {Procedure} make-reader @var{matcher} @var{proc} Create a new reader. The reader is to be activated when @var{matcher}, a procedure that accepts a file name as its only argument, returns @code{#t}. When a post file matches, the procedure @var{proc}, which also accepts a file name as its only argument, reads the contents and returns a post object (@pxref{Posts}). @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} reader? @var{object} Return @code{#t} if @var{object} is a reader. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} reader-matcher @var{reader} Return the match procedure for @var{reader}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} reader-proc @var{reader} Return the read procedure for @var{reader}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} reader-match? @var{reader} @var{file-name} Return @code{#t} if @var{file-name} is a file supported by @var{reader}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} reader-find? readers file-name Return the first reader in @var{readers} that can parse @var{file-name}, or @code{#f} if there is no such reader. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} reader-read reader file-name Parse @var{file-name} using @var{reader} and return two values: an alist of metadata and an SXML tree. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} read-post @var{reader} @var{file-name} [@var{default-metadata}] Read a post object from @var{file-name} using @var{reader}, merging its metadata with @var{default-metadata}, or the empty list if not specified. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} read-posts @var{directory} @var{keep?} @var{readers} [@var{default-metadata}] Read all of the files in @var{directory} that match @var{keep?} as post objects. The @var{readers} list must contain a matching reader for every post. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} make-file-extension-matcher @var{ext} Create a procedure that returns @code{#t} when a file name ends with ``.ext''. @end deffn @defvr {Procedure} sxml-reader A basic reader for posts written as Scheme code that evaluates to an an association list. The special key @code{content} contains the post body as an SXML tree. Example: @example (use-modules (haunt utils)) `((title . "Hello, world!") (date . ,(string->date* "2015-04-10 23:00")) (tags "foo" "bar") (summary . "Just a test") (content ((h2 "Hello!") (p "This is Haunt. A static site generator for GNU Guile.")))) @end example @end defvr @defvr {Procedure} html-reader A basic reader for posts written in plain ol' HTML. Metadata is encoded as the @code{key: value} pairs, one per line, at the beginning of the file. A line with the @code{---} sentinel marks the end of the metadata section and the rest of the file is encoded as HTML. Example: @example title: A Foo Walks Into a Bar date: 2015-04-11 20:00 tags: bar ---
This is an example using raw HTML, because Guile doesn't have a Markdown parser.
@end example @end defvr @node Texinfo @subsection Texinfo @example (use-modules (haunt reader texinfo)) @end example @defvr {Procedure} texinfo-reader A reader for posts written in texinfo, the official documentation format of the GNU project. Metadata is encoded as @code{key: value} pairs, one per line, at the beginning of the file. A line with the @code{---} sentinel marks the end of the metadata section and the rest of the file is encoded as HTML. Example: @example title: Hello, Texi! date: 2016-08-20 12:00 tags: texinfo, foo --- @@emph@{Texinfo@} is the official documentation format of the @@url@{http://www.gnu.org/, GNU project@}. It was invented by Richard Stallman and Bob Chassell many years ago, loosely based on Brian Reid's Scribe and other formatting languages of the time. It is used by many non-GNU projects as well. @end example @end defvr @node Skribe @subsection Skribe @example (use-modules (haunt reader skribe)) @end example @defvr {Procedure} skribe-reader A reader for posts written in Skribe, a markup language with the full power of Scheme. Skribe posts are created with the @code{post} expression with metadata encoded as @code{:key expression} pairs at the beginning of the @code{post} expression. After the metadata section, the rest of the @code{post} expression is encoded as HTML. Example: @example (post :title "Hello, Skribe!" :date (make-date* 2016 08 20 12 00) :tags '("skribe" "foo" "baz") (h2 [This is a Skribe post]) (p [Skribe is a ,(em [really]) cool document authoring format that provides all the power of Scheme whilst giving the user a means to write literal text without stuffing it into a string literal. If this sort of thing suits you, be sure to check out ,(anchor "Skribilo" "http://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/"), too.])) @end example @end defvr @node CommonMark @subsection CommonMark @example (use-modules (haunt reader commonmark)) @end example @defvr {Procedure} commonmark-reader A reader for posts written in CommonMark, a fully specified variant of Markdown. Metadata is encoded as @code{key: value} pairs, one per line, at the beginning of the file. A line with the @code{---} sentinel marks the end of the metadata section and the rest of the file is encoded as HTML. Example: @example title: Hello, CommonMark! date: 2016-08-20 12:00 tags: markdown, commonmark --- ## This is a CommonMark post CommonMark is a **strongly** defined, *highly* compatible specification of Markdown, learn more about CommomMark [here](http://commonmark.org/). @end example @end defvr @node Builders @section Builders @menu * Static Assets:: Images, CSS, JavaScript, etc. * Blog:: Dear diary... * Atom:: Atom feeds. * RSS:: RSS feeds. * Redirects:: Client-side redirects. @end menu Builders are procedures that return one or more artifacts (@pxref{Artifacts}) when applied. A builder accepts two arguments: A site (@pxref{Sites}) and a list of posts (@pxref{Posts}). Haunt comes with a few convenient builders to help users who want to create a simple blog with an Atom feed. @node Static Assets @subsection Static Assets @example (use-modules (haunt builder assets)) @end example @deffn {Procedure} static-directory @var{directory} [@var{dest}] Create a builder procedure that recursively copies all of the files in @var{directory}, a file name relative to a site's source directory, and copies them into @var{dest}, a prefix relative to a site's target output directory. By default, @var{dest} is @var{directory}. @end deffn @node Blog @subsection Blog @example (use-modules (haunt builder blog)) @end example @deffn {Procedure} theme [#:name "Untitled"] [#:layout] [#:post-template] @ [#:collection-template] [#:pagination-template] Create a new theme named @var{name}. The procedure @var{layout} accepts three arguments: a site, a page title string, and an SXML tree. Its purpose is to wrap the contents of a post with the theme's header/footer and return the complete SXML tree for a web page. The procedure @var{post-template} accepts a single argument: a post. Its purpose is to return an SXML tree containing the contents of the post, applying any desired post-processing operations. The procedure @var{collection-template} accepts four arguments: a site, a title string, a list of posts, and a URL prefix string. Its purpose is to return an SXML tree containing the body of the collection page. The procedure @var{pagination-template} accepts four arguments: a site, an SXML tree, the file name of the previous page, and the file name of the next page. Its purpose is to incorporate the given SXML tree into a larger document that incorporates previous/next page links. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} theme? @var{object} Return @code{#t} if @var{object} is a theme object. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} blog [#:theme] [#:prefix] [#:post-prefix] @ [#:collections `(("Recent Posts" "index.html" ,posts/reverse-chronological))] @ [#:posts-per-page] Create a builder procedure that transforms a list of posts into pages decorated by @var{theme}, a theme object, whose URLs start with @var{prefix}. Post pages may be nested deeper in the file hierarchy than collection pages by specifying the @var{post-prefix} argument. Additionally, this builder creates pages that aggregate previews of many posts corresponding to what is specified in the list @var{collections}. Each collection is a three element list in the form @code{(title file-name filter)}. @table @var @item title The human readable name of the collection. @item file-name The HTML file that will contain the rendered collection. @item filter A procedure that accepts a list of posts as its only argument and returns a new list of posts. The filter procedure is used to remove and/or sort the posts into the desired form for the collection. For example, a filter could sort posts in reverse chronological order or select all posts that are written by a particular author. @end table By default, a single collection is created that lists posts in reverse chronological order and writes to @file{index.html}. Also by default, collection pages are not paginated. When there are a lot of posts in one or more collections, it is best to paginate them. To do so, pass the @var{posts-per-page} argument. The default theme is intended only for testing purposes. @end deffn @node Atom @subsection Atom @example (use-modules (haunt builder atom)) @end example @deffn {Procedure} atom-feed [#:file-name "feed.xml"] [#:subtitle "Recent Posts"] @ [#:filter posts/reverse-chronological] @ [#:max-entries 20] [#:blog-prefix ""] Return a builder procedure that renders a site's posts as an Atom feed. All arguments are optional: @table @var @item file-name: The page file name. @item subtitle The feed subtitle. @item filter The procedure called to manipulate the posts list before rendering. @item max-entries The maximum number of posts to render in the feed. @item blog-prefix The prefix for all post URLs, which is the combination of the blog's prefix and post prefix. @xref{Blog} for more information. @end table @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} atom-feeds-by-tag [#:prefix "feeds/tags"] @ [#:filter posts/reverse-chronological] @ [#:max-entries 20] [#:blog-prefix ""] Return a builder procedure that renders an atom feed for every tag used in a post. All arguments are optional: @table @var @item prefix The directory in which to write the feeds. @item filter The procedure called to manipulate the posts list before rendering. @item max-entries The maximum number of posts to render in each feed. @item blog-prefix The prefix for all post URLs, which is the combination of the blog's prefix and post prefix. @xref{Blog} for more information. @end table @end deffn @node RSS @subsection RSS @example (use-modules (haunt builder rss)) @end example @deffn {Procedure} rss-feed [#:file-name "rss-feed.xml"] [#:subtitle "Recent Posts"] @ [#:filter posts/reverse-chronological] @ [#:max-entries 20] [#:blog-prefix ""] Return a builder procedure that renders a list of posts as an RSS feed. All arguments are optional: @table @var @item file-name The page file name. @item subtitle The feed subtitle. @item filter The procedure called to manipulate the posts list before rendering. @item max-entries The maximum number of posts to render in the feed. @item blog-prefix The prefix for all post URLs, which is the combination of the blog's prefix and post prefix. @xref{Blog} for more information. @end table @end deffn @node Redirects @subsection Redirects @example (use-modules (haunt builder redirects)) @end example The redirects builder creates pages that trigger browser redirects to another URL. This allows for easily specifying redirects as part of a Haunt site configuration and without the need for modifying the configuration of the production web server that is hosting the site. @deffn {Procedure} redirects specs Return a procedure that transforms a list of redirect tuples in @var{specs}, with the form @code{(from to)}, into a list of pages that trigger a browser-initiated redirect. @code{from} values must be local page file names, @emph{not} URLs, but @var{to} values may be either local page file names or full URLs to other websites. @example (redirects '(("/about.html" "/about/me.html") ; local ("/guile.html" "https://gnu.org/software/guile"))) ; remote @end example @end deffn @node Publishers @section Publishers @example (use-modules (haunt publisher)) @end example The purpose of a publisher is to deploy a built site. Haunt comes with some built-in publishers, but custom publishers can be created with the following interface. @deffn {Procedure} make-publisher @var{name} @var{proc} Create a new publisher. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} publisher? @var{object} Return @code{#t} if @var{object} is a publisher. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} publisher-name @var{publisher} Return the publisher name. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} publisher-proc @var{reader} Return the publisher procedure for @var{publisher}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} publish @var{publisher} @var{site} Publish @var{site} with @var{publisher}. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} run-command @var{program} @var{args} Run command @var{program} with @var{args} arguments. @end deffn Haunt comes with the following built-in publishers: @node Rsync @subsection Rsync @example (use-modules (haunt publisher rsync)) @end example @deffn {Procedure} rsync-publisher [#:name 'production] [#:destination] @@ [#:user] [#:host] [#:name] [#:rsync] @@ [#:flags '("--compress" "--delete" "--progress" "--recursive" "--verbose")] Return a new publisher named @var{name} that publishes a site to @var{destination}, either locally or to a remote host if @var{host} and/or @var{user} arguments are specified. Passing @var{rsync} overrides the @command{rsync} executable used. Passing @var{flags} overrides the set of command line flags used. @end deffn @node Sourcehut @subsection Sourcehut @example (use-modules (haunt publisher sourcehut)) @end example @deffn {Procedure} sourcehut-publisher [#:name 'production] [#:hut] [#:tar] Return a new publisher named @var{name} that publishes a site to @url{https://srht.site/, sourcehut pages} using the site's configured domain. Passing @var{hut} and/or @var{tar} overrides the default @command{hut} and @command{tar} executables used. For the publisher to work, the @command{hut} CLI tool that is used under the hood has to be configured. One can do so by creating @file{~/.config/hut/config} manually or by running the @command{hut init} command. In both cases an OAuth access token needs to be generated via @url{https://meta.sr.ht/oauth2, sourcehut meta}. @end deffn @node Artifacts @section Artifacts @example (use-modules (haunt artifact)) @end example Artifacts are objects that represent the output of a build. A collection of artifacts forms a complete website. Artifacts are quite simple: They contain a file name string that specifies where the artifact belongs in the build output directory, and a writer procedure that populates that file with data. For example, making an artifact that writes ``Hello, world!'' to @file{/hello.txt} would look like this: @example (make-artifact "/hello.txt" (lambda (output) (call-with-output-file output (lambda (port) (display "Hello, world!\n" port))))) @end example Previous versions of Haunt made a distinction between pages, whose content is defined algorithmically, and assets, whose content is copied verbatim from an input file such as an image. The artifact data type is a unifying primitive that replaces both pages and assets. Artifacts that require serializing some input, such as SXML, should use @code{serialize-artifact}. Artifacts that make a verbatim copy of an input file should use @code{verbatim-artifact}. Unless you are implementing a custom builder, it's unlikely that these procedures will be need to used directly. @deffn {Procedure} serialized-artifact destination obj serialize Return a new artifact whose writer serializes @var{obj} using the procedure @var{serialize} to the @var{destination} in the build output directory. @end deffn @deffn {Procedure} verbatim-artifact source destination Return a new artifact that copies the file @var{source} verbatim to @var{destination} within the build output directory. @end deffn @node Assets @section Assets @example (use-modules (haunt asset)) @end example Assets represent files on disk that should be copied verbatim to a site's output directory. Common types of assets include CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts. It is often the case that there are entire directories full of static assets to copy over, thus there is a convenient @code{directory-assets} procedure. However, it's unlikely that this procedure needs to be used directly. See @pxref{Static Assets} for a convenient builder. @deffn {Procedure} directory-assets @var{directory} @var{keep?} @var{dest} Create a list of asset objects to be stored within @var{dest} for all files in @var{directory} that match @var{keep?}, recursively. @end deffn @node Contributing @chapter Contributing Haunt is developed using the Git version control system. The official repository is hosted at @url{https://git.dthompson.us/haunt.git}. Send patches and bug reports to @email{davet@@gnu.org}. @c ********************************************************************* @node GNU Free Documentation License @appendix GNU Free Documentation License @include fdl-1.3.texi @c ********************************************************************* @node Concept Index @unnumbered Concept Index @printindex cp @node Programming Index @unnumbered Programming Index @syncodeindex tp fn @syncodeindex vr fn @printindex fn @bye @c Local Variables: @c ispell-local-dictionary: "american"; @c End: