Wallapatta

Wallapatta is like <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown(Markdown)>>, but has a layout inspired by handouts of **Edward R. Tufte**^^1^^. >>> ^^1^^ <<http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000hB (Book design: advice and examples - edwardtufte.com)>> <<< <iframe src="https://ghbtns.com/github-btn.html?user=vpj&repo=wallapatta&type=star&count=true&size=large" frameborder="0" scrolling="0" width="160px" height="30px" </iframe> !https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/VlvlvGkRGB5NM18EciNd9CmuXBjMXS4_L5NX28DxDOB0r2PUuUyfrDiCF9_4urXmjonnSR99hA=s640-h400-e365-rw >>> **<<reference.html(Wallapatta syntax reference)>> **<<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wallapatta/nleponjjojkllonfamfjhebhadibjlip(Chrome App>> **<<http://vpj.github.io/wallapatta/chrome.html(Chrome App Documentation)>> Wallapatta has a several improvements over **Markdown**. * Focus on printing <<http://vpj.github.io/page_breaks.html(Optimal Page Breaks>> * Sidenotes for Edward R. Tufte style documents * Free open source editor <<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wallapatta/nleponjjojkllonfamfjhebhadibjlip(Chrome App>> * Compile books or <<http://vpj.github.io/wallapatta.html(blogs)>> * Better image support * Indentation based (for --code folding-- etc) * Write HTML, <<http://vpj.github.io/wallapatta_scripts.html(Javascript, or Coffeescript)>> inside document * and more <<reference.html(Read the Wallapatta reference)>> for a details on the syntax. ##Get Started ###Chrome app Download the <<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wallapatta/nleponjjojkllonfamfjhebhadibjlip(Chrome App)>> to write documents in wallapatta. It also lets you create printable documents (with smart page breaks). Here's the <<http://vpj.github.io/wallapatta/chrome.html(Chrome App Documentation)>>. ###Compile a book, blog or a page ####Installing CLI ``` npm install -g wallapatta ####Compiling a book (HTML book) ``` wallapatta --book book.yaml --output build --static Enter ``wallapatta`` to see the command line usage help. This documentation is written from Wallapatta. You can see the source and a sample ``book.yaml`` <<https://github.com/vpj/wallapatta/tree/master/doc(Github>> ####Generating a static blog ``` wallapatta --blog blog.yaml --output blog --static This <<http://vpj.github.io/wallapatta.html(blog post)>> shows how to create a static blog with wallapatta. <<http://vpj.github.io(My blog)>> is based on wallapatta.