One of the things that has held me back from using Pollen is what I
perceive as potential limitations. I'm not sure if I want to use pollen, or
use XML and write my own processor, and I am trying to make a decision.
I had a number of questions when I started this post, but I decided to look
at some of the sites I know of that use pollen, and many of them are
answered. There are still a few though:
I want to be able to define aliases for pages, and be able to do like
`@link[the-alias]`. I noticed that i could use metas to implement this, so
that's fine.
I want to have a CLI command that outputs all the aliases and the files
they refer to, as a way to remember the aliases. Ideally, I will eventually
have emacs run this command to get suggestions while I program.
In general, I know I will want to implement new CLI commands of varous
kinds, especially where I output information based upon post metadata. Is
that something I could do without much difficulty?
Not necessary, but another thing I was thinking about doing is implementing
bi-directional links, that is, adding a section on some pages that says
"what links here". Is this doable?
When I write something, sometimes I want to declare the file to be a draft,
and not have it appear in the final output, and/or have "published on" data
available. I was thinking it would be handy if I could do something like:
◊(define-publish-status 'draft)
and only have draft posts be rendered in development.
Is it possible to read a pollen file and get the sexpr representation, or
something like it?
So, really, my questions all revolve around controlling the output process.
I think what worries me is that output works all by itself without any
control. I also don't know how to add new CLI tasks.
I would be willing to fork Pollen if necessary to do some of these things
for myself, but if Pollen is designed in such a way that I would be
fighting a lot, it might be a fool's errand.
Thank you for your work on Pollen. Its super cool, and I really hope I get
to use it!
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