Thanks to hav­ing users try­ing to ac­tu­al­ly im­port da­ta from word­press, the word­press im­porter plug­in for Niko­la, my stat­ic site gen­er­a­tor got a cou­ple of new fea­tures.

• It will try to main­­tain your URLs via redi­rects

  If your post was in /2012/1/2/a-­­post/ and now it will be in /post­s/a-­­post.html it will cre­ate a re­di­rect from the for­mer to the lat­ter.

• url_map for com­­ment mi­­gra­­tion

  It will cre­ate a CSV file con­­tain­ing the old,new full URLs so that you can move your dis­­qus threads to the right places.

Al­so, mas­ter works with do­cu­tils 0.10 which broke in the last re­lease.

For these rea­son­s, there will be a 5.0.1 re­lease to­day or to­mor­row.

PS: if you want to see a few sites us­ing Niko­la, now you can.

A bit ahead of sched­ule, I just up­load­ed ver­sion 0.93 of rst2pdf a tool to con­vert re­struc­tured text in­to PDF files.

Here are some of the changes in this ver­sion:

• Fixed Is­­sue 447: Dou­ble-sid­ed al­ways starts on the right (By Rob Lud­wick)

  • Re­­­moved --­­­first-­­­page-even as it was not used any­where.

  • Added --­­­first-­­­page-on-right

• Fixed Is­­sue 464: sup­­port align­­ment via :class: in im­age di­rec­­tives.

• Fixed Is­­sue 482: Line blocks with in­­­den­t­ed parts get ex­­tra­ne­ous spac­ing

• Fixed Is­­sue 470: Sup­­port for :tar­get: in fig­ures.

• New style "im­age" to be ap­­plied to im­age di­rec­­tives.

• Fixed Is­­sue 485: Bet­ter styling sup­­port for fig­ures/im­ages (s­­pace­Be­­fore/After)

• Sup­­port rst2pdf [inf [out­f]] syn­­tax to be more com­­pat­i­ble with rst2*

• Im­­ple­­men­t­ed Is­­sue 389: New --strip-ele­­men­t-with­­-­­class op­­tion

• Fixed Is­­sue 474: Cel­l­Style1 is not there in re­­port­lab 2.6

• Re­­moved de­­fault pad­d­ing from De­layedTable, which looked bad on head­­er­s/­­foot­er­s.

• Im­prove­­ments to the math di­rec­­tive (font col­or and size)

• Bet­ter sup­­port for styling lit­er­al­s.

• Fixed Is­­sue 454 (S­­plit­t­ing fail­ure)

• Re­­gressed Is­­sue 374 (some lit­er­al blocks get over­s­plit)

• Switched from svglib to svg2rlg

• Re­­moved uni­­con­ver­­tor sup­­port

• Fixed Is­­sue 477: Sink foot­note sep­a­ra­­tor (patch by aser­­max)

• Fixed Is­­sue 473: Sup­­port "code" di­rec­­tive like an alias of code-block.

• Fixed Is­­sue 472: Im­­ple­­men­t­ed My­Im­age._un­Re­stric­t­­Size

• Fixed Is­­sue 471: Re­spect class in lineblock­­s.

• Fixed Is­­sue 455: New pisa/x­ht­m­l2pdf has very dif­fer­­ent im­­ports

• Marked Is­­sue 358 as fixed.

• Fixed Is­­sue 410: al­ways in­­­clude full lines in code-blocks (m­­mueller patch)

On my free time, lunch hours, and such I have been tweak­ing Niko­la, my stat­ic site gen­er­a­tor to make it python 3 friend­ly. Well, I some­what-ac­ci­den­tal­ly-my-­dog-­made-me-­do-it may have com­mit­ted a lot of that in­to mas­ter.

So, right now, things may be some­what bro­ken on python2 and some­what work­ing a lit­tle on python3.

In any case, feel free to try it out, and let me know what to fix.

My son fin­ished kinder, so they had a spe­cial cel­e­bra­tion, a grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny where they gave the kids a medal, a diplo­ma, they sang a song, that kind of thing. But this school has a tra­di­tion. Par­ents al­ways give their kids a sur­prise present at the end of kinder.

In this case, we did a play. With al­most ev­ery par­ent act­ing, singing, play­ing mu­sic, jug­gling, and more. My role? Mad sci­en­tist. I had 4 lines, I fun­bled one, but hey, you can't de­ny I got the look nailed, man.

A few days ago my son went to a kid's bar­ber­shop where they do things like play Scooby-­Doo in a Playsta­tion while they get a hair­cut. He liked it so much that he de­cid­ed to take mat­ters in his own hand­s. With scis­sors.

But you know what? Easy prob­lems have easy so­lu­tion­s. And I have a hair clip­per.