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It is probably time for some documentation. StylePlus adds several new tags within StyleText and allows you to 'import' other pages from within RapidWeaver.

The tags are:

• markdown
• bash

The arguments you can pass are (default in bold)

• cache=default \| none \| always
• warning=true \| false
• timeout = 5 \| (some number of seconds)
• files=_FILES_ | (something else that you want to refer to remove files with)
• outputdir= (some local directory you want copied to the server)

Of course, there is also the @import ((some other page)) command. I've not worked on this much and it still doesn't cache

If you are just getting started you can ignore the arguments (or said another way you will know when you need them)

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Markdown

First let's do a simple markdown example

<markdown>

*Hello from Markdown*

</markdown>

Yields

Hello from Markdown

You can read more about markdown Syntax by going to John Gruber's "Main Site" here

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Bash

The next one to focus on is the 'Bash'. This is pretty cool since you know now execute arbitrary code when viewing a page. There are lots of uses for this but for now let's do something trivial

<bash>

echo -n "the current date is:"

date

</bash>

Yields

The current date is:Thu Jul 3 21:54:41 PDT 2008

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Import

Finally let's talk briefly about the 'import' feature. This is pretty slick and allows you to include pages within pages

For instance:

@import((Home))

Yields (on my site anyway).

That's it for now... Don't worry there is more to come....

If it has ever happened to you then you know that painful feeling. your ONE copy of a document is somehow lost, deleted or destroyed and now literally MONTHS of work is gone.

At that moment you are thinking OH #$#@ ... then you calm down and start thinking of how much money and time you just lost.

Why not save yourself that angst and get PlusKit with BackupPlus!



With SavePlus you can have backup (archive) copies automatically. Worried about Disk Space? no problem, you can automatically compress the backups.

You can also add version information to each backup and optionally include that version information in the finder comments (which, by the way, includes enables Spotlight searches based on your version information. Note that only the first 200 characters of the version information are included in SpotLight searches)

PlusKit also includes a new powerful find feature. Ever wonder where something was in your RapidWeaver project? Wonder no more!



You can locate FindPlus in the 'Edit -> Find Plus'

PlusKit allows you to integrate documents from Google Docs. This allows for a sort of 'mini CMS' system where you can have portions of your web site that can be edited by anyone, anywhere in the world and the changes show up instantly on your web page.

To integrate a document look at the gdoc command.

To integrate a spreadsheet look at the gtable command -- as opposed to gdoc, gtable is a fairly complex command and usually takes a bit more work (due to the extra complexity of how to display tables)

There is also the gform command for doing forms and storing the results in your google spreadsheet (great for surveys)

This feature requires PHP support (so no .mac)