--- author: '' category: '' date: 2015-04-25 00:30:06 UTC description: '' link: '' priority: '' slug: some-new-stuff-in-nikola tags: '' title: Some New Stuff in Nikola type: text updated: 2015-04-25 00:30:06 UTC url_type: '' --- I did some quick work on `Nikola `__ (a static website/blog generator) lately, after a long time, and here's what it was: Multilingual Sitemaps --------------------- So, sitemaps are used by Google to index your site. It turns out that they can describe when there are sets of pages that are translations of each other. So the next release will do that (`Issue #1610 `__) Matplotlib Plots ---------------- Matplotlib comes with a `sphinx extension to do plots `__ So I went and implemented it, this was `Issue #1242 `__ and it's a plugin called pyplots, which will be soon at http://plugins.getnikola.com#pyplots I *hated* the original code. It felt convoluted, and just *weird* (it's probably just me) so I wrote it from scratch and it has some minor differences, but it's fairly compatible. Classy Images ------------- The docutils image directive, for whatever reason, doesn't support a class option, so you need to do things like this:: .. class:: foo .. image:: blah.png Which is ... not pretty. So I did a hacky plugin that monkeypatches the image directive to add that option. The plugin is at http://plugins.getnikola.com/#classy-images and this fixes `Issue 1538 `__ Mediawiki Markup ---------------- `djbclark `__ pointed out that there is a library to parse MediaWiki from python called `smc.mw `__ so I implemented a plugin to use it, so now you can use MediaWiki markup. The plugin is at http://plugins.getnikola.com/#mediawiki Removed Default Swatch from Bootswatch -------------------------------------- This was `Issue #1656 `__ and now you *have* to specify the swatch. This is a usability fix, because **defaults matter**. Played with KaTeX ----------------- Nikola supports math using MathJax. MathJax has some interesting qualities: * It's 160MB of code or so * It's not practical to use without a CDN * It's not practical to use webasset bundles with it Then, `klingtnet `__ mentioned something called KaTeX I had never heard about. I did a `quick hacky conversion `__ to see how it works. Not done yet, totally experimental, but it may be possible to bundle it, and maybe even have it turned on by default, removing the need for the mathjax label which is awful usability-wise. Some of these things are merged, some are still PRs, some are in core, some are plugins. They were all pretty fun to do :-)