Is there a way or possibility of making the css pure css? It would be miles better, since everyone is familiar with css. Development of beautiful frontends would also be easier.
@NullSense Are you suggesting that we rewrite neuron's Haskell-DSL for CSS in pure CSS? Or are you asking about a way to add a custom.css in neuron generated site?
For the former, the answer is no. For the latter, I was thinking of supporting it like this. If you have a static/style.css file in your notes dir, then include that in every generated HTML.
Allow some basic customization of the CSS (via neuron.dhall) so that not all Zettelkastens appear with teal as the primary color. Might as well normalize heading colors as part of this work.
I would love to help the project with some design stuff, try different views and that kind of thing, pure css would help with that immensely. Learning haskell just to edit css is kinda heavy.
In current development workflow, when you use the bin/run script - and when you change the clay CSS DSL thing directly, the whole site regenerates automatically. You get instant feedback on your changes. And if your CSS changes are semantically wrong , the compiler will catch it and tell you the error.
Likewise, you call the function marginLeft with the value em 0.4. You wrap the latter in parenthesis to make it clear that the whole of it is an argument. Alternatively the dollar sign can be used: marginLeft $ em 0.4
Is there a way or possibility of making the css pure css? It would be miles better, since everyone is familiar with css. Development of beautiful frontends would also be easier.
@NullSense Are you suggesting that we rewrite neuron's Haskell-DSL for CSS in pure CSS? Or are you asking about a way to add a custom.css in neuron generated site?
Well, for both purposes, pure css would be the way to go IMO. (for maintainability, future extensibility and wider reach)
For the former, the answer is no. For the latter, I was thinking of supporting it like this. If you have a
static/style.cssfile in your notes dir, then include that in every generated HTML.But this is all just once piece of the puzzle in the larger theming support. See this discussion: https://github.com/srid/neuron/issues/22
I see, that would be nice.
I would love to help the project with some design stuff, try different views and that kind of thing, pure css would help with that immensely. Learning haskell just to edit css is kinda heavy.
Is there some sort of transpiler that would be possible to use?
I would encourage you to learn http://fvisser.nl/clay/
Going back to plain CSS would be a degradation in development experience in many ways.
In current development workflow, when you use the
bin/runscript - and when you change the clay CSS DSL thing directly, the whole site regenerates automatically. You get instant feedback on your changes. And if your CSS changes are semantically wrong , the compiler will catch it and tell you the error.Not to mention the ability to "compose" CSS styles, which you don't get with plain CSS format.
You don't need to learn entirety of Haskell; just need to familiarize yourself with enough syntax so as to be able to work with Clay's DSL.
A "css block" is usually defined like this:
That
? dois like indentation in Python, or{...}in C or Java.And instead of "0.4 em", you write
em 0.4- because Haskell is like Math. You call the function "em" with the value "0.4".Likewise, you call the function
marginLeftwith the valueem 0.4. You wrap the latter in parenthesis to make it clear that the whole of it is an argument. Alternatively the dollar sign can be used:marginLeft $ em 0.4okay that doesn't sound too bad.