From 1159e4de07676101946c3b6911cb34fbf6d29275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlSFgIlytGZgMLh_Cw4IA011V8pLKk5dVg" Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:17:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Move to forum --- doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn | 34 ------------------------------- 1 file changed, 34 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn index 5afe95f2a..24a556ffe 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn @@ -43,38 +43,4 @@ distributed wiki. --- -Since there's no mailing list, I'll post my request for help here :-) - -I would like to use ikiwiki to build a static site which needs some transformations to be made on binary assets. A simple example is to translate a .odp presentation to .pdf using (e.g.) unoconv. If I add a new .odp attachment, or push one into the repo, I want the corresponding .pdf to appear in the generated site. What's the right place to hook in to do this? - -I've made an experimental prototype which hooks into needsbuild, builds the pages then and there, and at the same time removes them from the list of pages to be built. - -~~~ -sub needsbuild { - my $files=shift; - my $nfiles=[]; - foreach my $f (@$files) { - if ($f =~ /\.odp$/) { - my $g = $f; - $g =~ s/\.odp$/\.pdf/; - debug("building $f to $g"); - will_render($f, $g); - if (system("unoconv","-f","pdf","-o",IkiWiki::dirname("$config{destdir}/$g"),srcfile($f)) != 0) { - error("unoconv: failed to translate $f to $g"); - } - } - else { - push @$nfiles, $f; - } - }; - return $nfiles; -} -~~~ - -It appears to work, but is this the right way to do it, bearing in mind ikiwiki's dependency tracking and the like? And is the usage of will_render() correct? - -[[BrianCandler]] - ---- - I would find this page clearer split up into sub-pages. Does anyone agree/disagree? -- [[users/Jon]] -- 2.39.5