More utility stuff

- added book config to extend from
- added metadata to mdconfig 
- added mapping of metadata to global variables
- added global variable wordcount
- added better error handling of puppeteer errors
- added style to utility classes and tables

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@
 - support for `mdconf.json`config file
 - MathJax script to html
 - `mdconfig.json` extensions with `extends: "name"`
+- `mdconfig.json` metadata under `meta` that is available as global variables
 - variables prefixed with `$` and system variables prefixed with `$$`
+- default config `book`

README.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ You can include your own stylesheet. It is applied after the default style. The
 
 ## Variables
 
-Variables are prefixed with `$`.
+Variables are prefixed with `$`. They are case sensitive.
 You can define and use variables like this:
 
 Defining:
@@ -93,12 +93,47 @@ I'm eating an $fruit.
 There are system variables that are prefixed with `$$`.
 Currently you can use
 
-variable | value           | example value     
+variable    | value                    | example value     
----------|-----------------|--------------
+------------|--------------------------|--------------
-$now     | current datetime| 31.07.2019 21:03:47
+$$now       | current datetime         | 31.07.2019 21:03:47
-$date    | current date    | 31.07.2019
+$$date      | current date             | 31.07.2019
-$time    | current time    | 21:03:47
+$$time      | current time             | 21:03:47
+$$wordcount | words in the document    | 200
 
+All keys defined in the meta part of the `mdconfig.json` are also made
+available as system variables as long as they don't overide existing variables.
+
+## Environments
+
+These environments need the `div` plugin to work.
+
+```
+:::multiline
+One linebreak in here
+Is one linebreak in the document.
+:::
+
+:::centered
+Text is centered in here.
+:::
+
+:::page
+This is rendered on one or more extra pages.
+:::
+
+:::tabular
+              |                 |
+--------------|-----------------|----------
+only the body | of the table is | displayed
+and without   | borders         |
+:::
+
+:::title
+Title page environment
+All text is bigger
+and is kept on one page (if possible).
+:::
+```
 
 ## Configuration file
 
@@ -115,7 +150,13 @@ You can also define plugins, stylesheets and other stuff by using a `mdconf.json
   ],
   "stylesheets": [
     "customstyle.css"
-  ]
+  ],
+  "meta": { // all values defined here are also global variables
+    "author": "John Doe",
+    "title": "Markdown is great",
+    "subtitle": "Or is it?",
+    "hey": "Vsauce, Michael here!"
+  }
 }
 ```
 

src/configs/book-mdconfig.json

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  "plugins": [
+    "footnote",
+    "anchor",
+    "mark",
+    "sub",
+    "attrs",
+    "abbr",
+    "imsize",
+    "highlightjs",
+    "smartarrows",
+    "math",
+    "div",
+    "multimd-table",
+    "toc-done-right",
+    "center-text",
+    "header-sections",
+    "task-checkbox",
+    "underline",
+    "implicit-figures",
+    "inline-comments"
+  ]
+}

src/index.ts

@@ -81,8 +81,13 @@ async function main() {
     } else if (args.pdf) {
 
         let outputFile = noExt(args.file) + '.pdf';
-        await renderer.renderPdf(args.file, outputFile);
+        try {
-        console.log(`File stored as ${outputFile}`);
+            await renderer.renderPdf(args.file, outputFile);
+            console.log(`File stored as ${outputFile}`);
+        } catch (err) {
+            logger.error(err);
+            console.error('Failed to render pdf.');
+        }
 
     } else {
 

src/lib/MarkdownConfig.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import * as fsx from 'fs-extra';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import {getMarkdownPlugin} from "./utils";
 import {logger} from "./logger";
+import {addGlobalVar, globalVariables} from "./globvars";
 
 const confName = 'mdconfig.json';
 const confDir = `${__dirname}../../configs`;
@@ -10,7 +11,8 @@ const confDir = `${__dirname}../../configs`;
  * Configs that can be extended
  */
 const configs: any = {
-    "full": `${confDir}/full-${confName}`
+    "full": `${confDir}/full-${confName}`,
+    "book": `${confDir}/book-${confName}`
 };
 
 /**
@@ -53,6 +55,17 @@ export class MarkdownConfig {
             this.plugins = new Set<string>(configData.plugins.map(getMarkdownPlugin));
         if (configData.stylesheets)
             this.stylesheets = new Set<string>(configData.stylesheets);
+        if (configData.meta) {
+            let meta: any = configData.meta;
+            // adding metadata as global variables
+            let definedGlobals = Object.keys(globalVariables);
+            for (let [key, value] of Object.entries(meta)) {
+                if (!definedGlobals.includes(key)) {
+                    // @ts-ignore
+                    addGlobalVar(key, value);
+                }
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     /**

src/lib/PreFormatter.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {pageFormats} from "./formats";
 import {PDFFormat} from "puppeteer";
 import {getMarkdownPlugin} from "./utils";
 import {logger} from "./logger";
-import {globalVariables} from "./globvars";
+import {addGlobalVar, globalVariables} from "./globvars";
 
 export class PreFormatter {
     public projectFiles: string[];
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export class PreFormatter {
         this.projectFiles = [];
         this.resolvePath = [];
         this.stylesheets = [];
-        this.variables = Object.assign({}, globalVariables);
+        this.variables = {};
     }
 
     async processCommands(doc: string, docpath: string, renderer: Renderer) {
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ export class PreFormatter {
         }
 
         let documentContent = outputLines.join('\n');
+        addGlobalVar('wordcount', () => {
+            let doc = documentContent.replace(/\[.*]/g, '').replace(/\s+/, ' ');
+            return doc.split(' ').length;
+        });
+        Object.assign(this.variables, globalVariables);     // assign globals right before replacing
         // replacing all variables with their values.
         for (let [key, value] of Object.entries(this.variables)) {
             let varReplacer: RegExp = new RegExp(`\\$${key}`, "gi");

src/lib/Renderer.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {PreFormatter} from "./PreFormatter";
 import {EventEmitter} from "events";
 import {PDFFormat} from "puppeteer";
 import {MarkdownConfig} from "./MarkdownConfig";
-import {bundleImages, delay, includeMathJax} from "./utils";
+import {bundleImages, delay, includeMathJax, replaceMultilineBreaks} from "./utils";
 import {logger} from "./logger";
 
 export class Renderer extends EventEmitter {
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ export class Renderer extends EventEmitter {
             return dom;
         });
         this.useAfter(includeMathJax);
+        this.useAfter(replaceMultilineBreaks);
         // include all images as base64
         if (this.config.bundle)
             this.useAfter(bundleImages);

src/lib/globvars.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,21 @@ const dateTimeFormat = "dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss";
 const dateFormat = "dd.MM.yyyy";
 const timeFormat = "hh:mm:ss";
 
+/**
+ * Adds a global variable
+ * @param name - name of the variable
+ * @param value - value of the variable
+ */
+export function addGlobalVar(name: string, value: string|Function) {
+    name = name.replace(/\W/g, '');     // only allow word characters because it is interpreted as regex
+    globalVariables[`\\$${name}`] = value;
+}
+
+/**
+ * All global variables that can be used in the document.
+ */
 export const globalVariables: any = {
+    "\\$wordcount": 0,          // will be replaced in PreFormatter
     "\\$now"() {
         return format(dateTimeFormat, new Date());
     },

src/lib/utils.ts

@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ export function includeMathJax(dom: JSDOM): JSDOM {
     return dom;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Replaces all linebreaks with <br> tags in a .multiline div (:::multiline:::)
+ * @param dom
+ */
+export function replaceMultilineBreaks(dom: JSDOM): JSDOM {
+    let document = dom.window.document;
+    let multis = document.querySelectorAll('.multiline p');
+    for (let multi of multis)
+        multi.innerHTML = multi.innerHTML.replace(/\n/g, '<br>');
+    return dom;
+}
+
 /**
  * Returns the markdown plugin associated with the pluginName
  * The plugin is first searched in the plugins definition.

src/styles/default.sass

@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ figcaption
   margin: 0.5em
   font-style: italic
 
+table
+  border-collapse: collapse
+  td, th
+    padding: 0.2em
+  th
+    border-bottom: 2px solid $primary
+  td
+    border-bottom: 1px solid $inactive
+
 .footnote-backref
   display: none
 
@@ -44,8 +53,31 @@ figcaption
   page-break-after: always
   page-break-inside: avoid
 
+.page.title
+  page-break-before: avoid
+
 .newpage
   page-break-after: always
 
 .text-align-center
   text-align: center
+
+.centered
+  text-align: center
+  table
+    margin: auto
+
+.tabular
+  thead
+    display: none
+  td
+    border: none
+
+.title
+  font-size: x-large
+  h1
+    font-size: 1.8em
+  h2
+    font-size: 1.3em
+  table
+    font-size: x-large

src/styles/includes/vars.sass

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 $backgroundSecondary: #eee
 $inactive: #444
+$primary: #000