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by BeetleB 964 days ago
I know people write SSGs because of frustration with their existing one, but did you consider writing a tool that "publishes" to Pelican? That's kind of what I do: I write all my posts in a single org file, and have Emacs process them and output rst files for Pelican's consumption.
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I have used pelican for my website for a decade now.

I also host my book-draft on my site. I initially tried to get Pelican to do it, or to write something that publishes to Pelican, but it just didn't work. I ended up writing a hundred lines of fairly simply python to do the same job.

I did consider that; but I had other nebulous project ideas that benefit from getting better hold of Jinja, especially. Those ideas have grown considerably now, I'm glad I did my SSG, its given me more confidence in those notions.