Re: Some beginners questions

"Will Guaraldi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/8/07, Chris G <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Second question relates to flavours, it's not really clear whether
> they are for producing different format output (e.g. HTML, XHTML, RSS,
> etc.) or for producing different output appearances.

Both.  Flavours are a templating mechanism so they can produce any
text-based output.  This can be feed formats (RSS, Atom, ...) as well
as HTML/XHTML formats, it could also be LaTeX or reST, plain text, ...
 Whatever you have flavour templates for.

PyBlosxom comes with several flavours:

* RSS 0.9.1 (which I encourage you not to use)
* RSS 2.0
* Atom 1.0
* a very very plain HTML flavour

There are two flavours that are available from the flavour directory
on the PyBlosxom web-site.

On top of that, PyBlosxom should be able to use most blosxom flavours
with some small amount of tweaking.  Namely you might have to adjust
some of the variables since I think there are some variables that are
different between the two blog systems.  (As a side note, if someone
wants to do some analysis and build a list of variables in blosxom and
a list of variables in PyBlosxom and point out the differences, that'd
be really awesome.)


> Finally can one place links from place to place within pyBlosxom
> pages?  I.e. are 'internal' links possible?

I'm assuming you mean "HTML/XHTML output" when you say "PyBlosxom
pages".  I'm also assuming by "internal links" you mean links from one
place on an HTML/XHTML page to another place--otherwise known as
anchors.  Under those assumptions, internal links are possible--you
would do them the same way you do internal links in HTML/XHTML.  If
that's not what you mean, please clarify.

I posted the PyBlosxom web-site flavour here:

   http://www.bluesock.org/~willg/download/pyblsite.html.tar

I hope that helps.

On a side note, are you finding there are gaps in the PyBlosxom
manual?  If so, let us know what you think is missing and/or unclear
and we'll work on fixing it.

/will

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