a glossary-style wiki program. with a formatting language like markdown but worse.
it is designed to maximize nonlinear browsing.
the central gloss.py script translates each .gls file in its input directory to a .html in its output. to run it, you will need a python runtime and a C compiler. make sure to download the entire repo.
.gls files are composed of a names section, a set of blocks, and an optional "see also" section.
the names section consists of the first non-empty non-comment lines in a file. each line becomes a name for the file. a file's names are automatically turned into links, the first time it is referenced in another document. matching is performed at word boundaries: a file with name "foo" will not be linked from "foobar". the names section is terminated with a blank line.
blocks can be either paragraph blocks or quote blocks, and they are terminated by blank lines. a block is a quote block if its first line begins with a '>'. to begin a paragraph block with '>', escape it with a backslash.
if any line in a block begins with ~, it will become the block's metadata.
only quotes have metadata, for authorship info.
the format is thus: <source> @@ <time> // <url>.
if @@ is omitted, the signature will have no time associated.
if // is omitted, the signature will have no URL associated.
within a block, one can write a link of the form <https://example.com>, or <https://example.com|example page>.
one can also escape < and > with backslashes. regions of text can be italicized by putting them /in slashes/.
if a block begins with ***, the "see also" section is entered.
each subsequent non-empty line should be the slug (filename, minus .gls) of an article.
it will be linked in a "see also" list at the bottom.
if a template.html is present in the source directory, it will be the template for all rendered pages. run gloss.py with no arguments for more information.