Jem-press is inspired by Octopress and jem-doc, hence the name. I like Octopress for all the customization and options, but it's lacking deliberately feature-poor simplicity of jem-doc. However, jem-doc doesn't use markdown, and seems kinda hacked together (no make file included, etc). So, I decided to make jem-press.
Octopress is a blog-aware site generator. Jem-press is not, and could only be blog aware if you formatted the blog yourself. In that sense, it's static. A good example of the site I'm trying to produce is the jemdoc website.
Jem-press is supposed to be simple. It's designed so that all that's required is to download this repo and change the markdown files. Everything else is taken care of -- CSS, LaTeX equations, etc.
The documentation includes all the details on
- how to install
- how to generate site
- some content tips
Even though the docs are incredibly useful, I'll include a couple bullets:
- It's easiest to clone this repo to get started
- All of the content displayed on the pages are in
content/ - Run
cd path/to/jem-press; ruby update.rbto update your site
The jem-press documentation site is written in jem-press itself.
- Only folders within
imagesare copied across. I should implementfind content -type d | xargs cp -r html/
- simple, feature minimal (deliberately!)
- easy to pick up
- popular markdown formatting
- easy for academic/static sites
- not blog sensitive (no posts by date, no search, no keywords, etc)