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0 pointsyellowapple7y ago0 comments

> First, you have to keep track of which documents need the same header/footer (unless all are exactly the same)

That should be pretty easy to program into a Makefile.

> Second, you have to extract the title from the content somehow

Or just "cat headerfront $PAGE/title headerback $PAGE/body footer > $PAGE.html".

Like yeah, there's some upfront complexity, but nowhere near the complexity of manually editing these things on each and every page. Once you have these programmed in and scripted out, you get 90% of the useful stuff a SSG does for you with 10% (at most) of the moving parts.

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john-aj7y ago· 1 in thread

The thing is, I don’t want any generation at all, at least not with my actual HTML pages.

yellowappleOP7y ago

Okay, then don't do any generation. That's fine. Nothing wrong with doing things manually if that's really how you like to do it.

Personally, I'm lazy, and tend to prefer at least a little bit of automation.

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