Eighty

Eighty is a static website generator, currently specifically built for the Core Paper wiki.

Features

• Document-focused and intuitive
• Multi-format support, currently with AsciiDoc, Markdown, and Org Mode.
• Sitemap support, requiring no "sitemap config".

Rendering process

The process for rendering is separated into different stages. In Eighty, they are referred to as different "workspaces".

Metadatad workspace

In this step, the metadata of all files are read. The site metadata is first read from the _site.json file. The documents are initially read (with its source path, type, and modified time known).

Rendered workspace

The workspace then gets rendered. For each document depending on its type, it'll call either AsciiDoctor or Pandoc to render the file. The "frontmatter" of the document is also stored. At this step, the document name also becomes known – depending on whether the frontmatter contains an id field and the file path, this can be of different value.

In the end, the permalink of the document is already known. However, note that in the rendered content, hyperlinks still points to the original source path.

Full workspace

The assets get read. For each rendered documents, variables get read and replaced (at this moment we don't yet have any variables). The hyperlinks also get replaced with the permalinks.

Post workspace

This processing step is mainly reserved for future usages. At this moment, no particular processing is done – the site is simply organized as a map of its final end path and the content, ready for serving or writing to the build directory.