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What is Thoth?

Thoth is a file based wiki page generator.

Features

  • Create markdown files and render them as HTML.
  • Use handlebar to add templating.
  • Additional markdown features:
    • Variables
    • Asides
    • Graphs

Design

Goes like:

          Data > JSON >
Markdown > Handlebars > HTML

Data

  • First step is to convert the data to JSON object.

  • Data can come from various sources:

    • TSV
    • CSV
    • Google spreadsheet
    • XML
    • JSON

  • Data are initially converted to JSON. The converted format depends on the original data type.

  • Users can specify the function to transform the JSON.

JSON

  • JSON data can be converted to Markdown in two ways:

    1. Embed using variables.
    2. If the JSON is an array, it can be used to generate markdown files

Handlebars

  • Conversion is straightforward.

HTML

  • This is where data from JSON and handlebar templates are applied.