Meze

Meze adds Sphinx flavor to Mezzanine. You can write your blog posts and pages in reStructuredText and get them converted into HTML via Sphinx.

Usage Examples

See a number of usage examples at: http://ahmetbakan.com/blog/category/meze/

Requirements

Sphinx is required to convert reStructuredText source.

Installation

You can use easy_install or pip:

easy_install -U mezzanine-meze
pip install mezzanine-meze

or download package from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mezzanine-meze and install using setup.py.

Quick start

Make the following changes in your project settings.py file:

1. Add "meze" to INSTALLED_APPS:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'meze',
   )
   

2. Inject source and convert fields to mezzanine.blog.models.BlogPost and mezzanine.pages.models.RichTextPage.source models:

   help_text = ("Source in reStructuredText format will be converted to "
                "HTML and result will replace content field.")
   EXTRA_MODEL_FIELDS = (
       # Enable Meze for blog posts
       ("mezzanine.blog.models.BlogPost.source",
        "TextField", (), {"blank": True, "help_text": help_text}),
       ("mezzanine.blog.models.BlogPost.convert",
        "BooleanField", ("Convert source",), {"default": True}),
       # Enable Meze for rich text pages
       ("mezzanine.pages.models.RichTextPage.source",
        "TextField", (), {"blank": True, "help_text": help_text}),
       ("mezzanine.pages.models.RichTextPage.convert",
        "BooleanField", ("Convert source",), {"default": True}),
   )
   del help_text
   

   If you have started using Meze after creating database, you may need to make a migration. See field injection caveats in Mezzanine documentation.

3. Update settings.py file.

   Add MEZE_SETTINGS:

   MEZE_SETTINGS = {
       'workdir': os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'meze_workdir'),
   }
   

   Default values are shown. You will need write access to workdir.

   Add configuration options for Sphinx:

   SPHINX_CONF = """
   project = u''
   copyright = u''
   version = '0'
   release = '0'
   master_doc = 'index'
   pygments_style = 'sphinx'
   html_theme = 'default'
   html_sidebars = {'**': []}
   html_domain_indices = False
   html_use_index = False
   html_show_sourcelink = False
   html_add_permalinks = None
   source_suffix = '.rst'
   intersphinx_mapping = {'python': ('http://docs.python.org/', None)}
   extlinks = {'wiki': ('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s', ''),}
   extensions = ['sphinx.ext.intersphinx', 'sphinx.ext.extlinks']
   """
   

   This file is written to Meze workdir.

4. Sphinx is using Pygments for syntax highlighting, so you will need to add pygments.css file to your template:

   {% compress css %}
   ...
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "meze/css/meze.css" %}">
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "meze/css/pygments.css" %}">
   ...
   

   If you are writing Python snippets, you can also add copybutton.js file, to enable a copy friendly display option for code:

   {% compress js %}
   ...
   <script src="{% static "meze/js/copybutton.js" %}"></script>
   ...
   

How does it work?

Meze starts a Sphinx project in workdir by creating a simple configuration file (conf.py).

reStructuredText files are written into workdir, HTML files are built using Sphinx, and content of HTML files are stored in the database.

Source code

https://github.com/abakan/mezzanine-meze

Changes

v0.3 (Jan 10, 2014)

• Moved static files to meze folder.
• Added static files to setup.py.

v0.2.2 (Oct 11, 2013)

• Searching images in both STATIC_ROOT and MEDIA_ROOT folders.
• Improved revising image sources in HTML to avoid exceptions when an image file is not found.

v0.2.1 (July 17, 2013)

• Fixed a bug in Meze class that prevented changes in Sphinx configuration to take place.

v0.2 (July 12, 2013)

• Improved handling of image files.

v0.1 (July 11, 2013)

• First release.