A more complex test post

I need a more complex post to test how this blog format will work out. We'll include samples of various Spartan content types.

Quotation

This is the quote of the day. I should have looked up some pithy quote by somebody more interesting than me, but I didn't. -- me

Code sample

Here is the current version of the "bp" blog post helper script.

#!/usr/bin/bash

# bp - a Spartan blog helper to create a new blog post

# Where is the blog directory?
blogdir=~/public_spartan/blog

fname=$(date -Iminutes)  # get current date and time
cdate="${fname/T/ }"     # capture file creation date for potential use in the post text
fname="${fname%-*}.gmi"  # create a name for the file.

# Create the new file.
printf "# new\n\ntext\n\n📅_c: %s  ✏️ e: \ntags: #new\n" "${cdate%-*}" >> "$blogdir/$fname"
# Verify that the file was created? No, if the editor opens an empty file it will be obvious something is wrong.

echo "New post is at: $blogdir/$fname"  # This makes it easy to re-edit the file if you need to.

# Edit the new post
"$EDITOR" "$blogdir/$fname" # ToDo: check whether $EDITOR is set?

# Display the result so you can review it for errors.
cat "$blogdir/$fname"

Table

There is not a table type included in gemtext, but preformatted text can be used to display tabular data. I don't have a good sample data table already built so here is a scrap from another document that I can quickly paste in.

┌─────────────┬──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│    Note     │           1952           │          1966           │          2015           │
╞═════════════╪══════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════╡
│             │ This is the text as I    │                         │                         │
│             │ copied it from my        │                         │                         │
│             │ mother's signed and      │                         │ The current text as     │
│             │ framed document from     │                         │ available as            │
│             │ 1952. It may have been   │ I copied this text from │                         │
│             │ in use in this form ever │ my own document that I  │ [SOLDIER'S COVENANT]    │
│ Source      │ since the 1880s; it      │ signed in December      │                         │
│             │ appears to have been     │ 1966.                   │ at The Salvation Army   │
│             │ quoted in Thomas H.      │                         │ International           │
│             │ Huxley's                 │                         │                         │
│             │ [Legal Opinions]         │                         │                         │
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Title       │ Articles of War          │ Articles of War         │ SOLDIER'S COVENANT      │
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│             │                          │                         │ (Promises made when     │
│             │ Signed by all Salvation  │ Signed by all Salvation │ becoming a soldier in   │
│ Explanation │ Army Soldiers            │ Army Soldiers           │ The Salvation Army.     │
│             │                          │                         │ Formerly called         │
│             │                          │                         │ 'Articles of War'.)     │
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│             │ Having received with all │ Having received with    │                         │
│             │ my heart the salvation   │ all my heart the        │                         │
│             │ offered to me by the     │ Salvation offered to me │                         │
│             │ tender mercy of Jehovah, │ by the tender mercy of  │                         │
│             │ I do here and now        │ God, I do here and now  │ HAVING accepted Jesus   │
│             │ publicly acknowledge God │ acknowledge God the     │ Christ as my Saviour    │
│             │ the Father to be my      │ Father to be my King;   │ and Lord, and desiring  │
│             │ king, God the Son, Jesus │ God the Son, Jesus      │ to fulfil my membership │
│ Motivation  │ Christ our Lord, to be   │ Christ our Lord, to be  │ of His Church on earth  │
│             │ my Saviour, God the Holy │ my Saviour; and God the │ as a soldier of The     │
│             │ Spirit to be my Guide,   │ Holy Spirit to be my    │ Salvation Army, I now   │
│             │ Comforter, and Strength; │ Guide, Comforter and    │ by God's grace enter    │
│             │ and I will, by His help, │ Strength; and I will,   │ into a sacred covenant. │
│             │ love, serve, worship and │ by His help, love,      │                         │
│             │ obey this glorious God   │ serve, worship, and     │                         │
│             │ through time and through │ obey this glorious God  │                         │
│             │ eternity.                │ through time and        │                         │
│             │                          │ through eternity.       │                         │
└─────────────┴──────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

List

Of course we should include a list.

Item one
Item 2
3. Why should list items be consistent?
Fourth, they are easier to read.

My, what a pitiful list that was.

Finally

There must a level3 heading:

Level 3

And here it is.

I think we're done here, for now.

Now it is time to test, test, test using the varios Spartan clients I have installed. So far, I am satisfied with what I'm seeing in both GUI and text-mode clients. Once I resolve the file-name, date-sorted index list issue (discussed in my Spartan [blog] working document) I think it's ready for regular use.

[blog] (/blog-for-spartan.gmi)

📅 c: 2022-07-14 08:10 ✏️e: 2022-07-14 15:11

tags: #test #gemtext