organized project development and requirements

md-gemtext-outline.txt

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+takes the output of md-lint to generate gemtext
+
+TEXT DECORATIONS
+-for text decorations like italics, bold, underline
+surround with chars like /word/ *word* _word_
+
+LINKS
+-use gemtext specific linking syntax
+
+CODE
+-put code into ```preformatted text```

md-html-outline.txt

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+take pieces of other md-to-HTML converters from 
+github to save development time.
+
+TEXT DECORATIONS
+-for text decorations like italics, bold, underline
+    -HTML use <i> <b> <u> tags
+    -Gemtext surround with chars like /word/ *word* _word_
+

md-lint-outline.txt

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+Convert a standard mardown file into the subset of markdown 
+that can be used to generate gemtext and comparable HTML.
+
+HEADINGS
+-round markdown's six headings into gemtext's 3
+    -h1 = h1
+    -h2 = h3
+    -h3 = h3
+    -h4 = h5
+    -h5 = h5
+    -h6 = h5
+
+ORDERED LISTS
+-convert to plain text ordered lists
+
+TABLES
+-convert tables into ASCII art tables
+    -put in ```preformatted text```
+    -a certain size limit will need to be created
+    -generator should throw a warning
+
+CODE
+-code highlighting should work for HTML
+-use ```preformatted text``` for gemtext
+
+LINKS
+-links should be moved to a list below the paragraph they are found in
+-in their place the text of the link should be kept in the paragraph
+with a reference number like [1] or [22]
+-the numbers should not repeat in each page
+
+IMAGES
+-handle like links

outline.txt

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-features
-	-convert a subset of markdown into html and gemini files
-		-images not supported
-		-tables converted to ascii tables for gemtext and html
-			-put in ```blockquotes```
-		-for code highlighting should work for HTML
-		-for code use ```block quotes``` for gemtext
-		-for text decorations like italics, bold, underline
-			-HTML use <i> <b> <u> tags
-			-Gemtext surround with chars like /word/ *word* _word_
+Overview:
 
-	-inline links are referenced using reference numbers [1] and are 
-	listed below each paragraph. A full list of all links/references
-	are displayed at the bottom. This scheme will work for both HTML 
-	and gemini
-	
-	example:
-		Implementing RC5 in Lua presented some minor challenges. Lua 
-		likes to start its data structures at index 1, whereas C starts 
-		at an index of 0. Converting the pseudocode from the paper [1] 
-		to start counting at 1 instead of 0 took a little time, however 
-		once you get used to the Lua way [2] things become pretty easy 
-		to understand.
+md-lint.lua converts all files in the markdown/ directory into a 
+subset of md capable of being translated into comparable gemtext 
+and HTML. The output is fed into gemtext-gen.lua and html-gen.lua 
+to generate format specific documents.
 
-		[1] paper
-		[2] Lua way
+html-gen.lua will take pieces of other md-to-HTML converters from 
+github to save development time.
 
-	-generate site map
+gemtext-gen.lua will likely need to be developed mostly from scratch.
+
+the whole process of generating a site will be done with a main program 
+that orchestrates the process of converting the files in the markdown/ 
+directory into the correct HTML and gemtext files in the HTML/ and 
+gemini/ directories.
+
+the src/ directory will contain the lua programs and the folders for 
+the HTML and gemini specific configs. These would include format 
+specific headers and footers that would be manually written and 
+added to all generated documents of that type. For example in your 
+src/html-config/header.html you may want to include a link to a 
+CSS style sheet. And a CSS style sheet would also be kept in the 
+html-config/ directory
+
+any content that cant be represented as text can be linked to on the 
+generated site. Files like images and pdfs are stored in the files/ 
+directory and sorted by file extension into folders.
 
 organized into three directories
 ssg-lua/
+	src/
+		html-config/
+		gemini-config/
 	markdown/
 	html/
 	gemini/
-
-first develop the markdown to gemtext program
-second write the markdown to html program
-
-gemtext has 3 headings
-#
-##
-###
-markdown has 6. round 2 to 3. and round 4 and 6 to 5.
-
-gemtext supports unordered lists
-* item
-* item
-
-convert ordered lists to unordered lists before compiling to HTML and gemtext
-
-gemtext links look like this
-=> https://example.com    A cool website
-=> gopher://example.com   An even cooler gopherhole
-=> gemini://example.com   A supremely cool Gemini capsule
-=> sftp://example.com
+	files/
+		images/
+		pdfs/
+		archives/