#lang pollen/mode racket/base #| We can write a pollen.rkt file in any #lang. `#lang racket` is more convenient because it loads more libraries by default. For the same reason, `#lang racket/base` — with a minimal set of libraries — is slightly faster to load. The difference here is probably negligible. In general, the more virtuous habit is `#lang racket/base`. `pollen/mode` is a metalanguage that adds support for Pollen-mode commands in a source file. So instead of `#lang racket/base` we write `#lang pollen/mode racket/base`. `pollen/mode` is optional. BTW this file is heavily commented so it can serve as a Pollen learning tool. Rather than just read along, you are encouraged to run this project with the project server active, and make changes to this file and see how they affect the output. We could avoid the next `require` if we were using `#lang racket`, because these libraries would already be available. |# (require (for-syntax racket/base racket/syntax) ; enables macros racket/list racket/format racket/string racket/function racket/contract racket/match racket/system) #| Other libraries we'll be using. |# (require sugar txexpr pollen/decode pollen/tag hyphenate "pricing-table.rkt") #| Everything provided from a pollen.rkt is automatically available to Pollen source files in the same directory or subdirectories (unless superseded by another pollen.rkt, as in the "fonts" subdir) Note that `all-defined-out` would only export the definitions that are created in this file. To make imported definitions available too, we need to re-export them with `all-from-out`. |# (provide (all-defined-out) (all-from-out "pricing-table.rkt")) #| Pollen recognizes the environment variable POLLEN, which can take any value. For instance, instead of starting the project server with raco pollen start You could do POLLEN=SOME-STRING raco pollen start And "SOME-STRING" would be loaded into the POLLEN environment variable. We can retrieve this value with `(getenv "POLLEN")`. It can be used to create branching behavior. Here, we'll create a `dev-mode?` test and use it later to change the behavior of certain functions. |# (define (dev-mode?) (equal? (getenv "POLLEN") "DEV")) #| Definitions in a pollen.rkt can be functions or values. Here are a couple values. |# (define content-rule-color "#444") ; for CSS classes (define buy-url "http://typo.la/oc") ; link to buy the Typography for Lawyers paperback #| TAG FUNCTIONS |# #| `link`: make a hyperlink In Pollen notation, we'll invoke the tag function like so: ◊link[url]{text of link} ◊link[url #:class "name"]{text of link} This will become, in Racket notation: (link url "text of link") (link url #:class "name" "text of link") The definition of the tag function will follow this syntax. Learning to see the duality of Pollen & Racket notation is a necessary part of the learning curve. Pollen notation is optimized for embedding commands in text. Racket notation is optimized for writing code. The relationship between the two, however, is dependable and consistent. By contrast, most "template languages" either make you use syntax that's different from the underlying language, or restrict you to a subset of commands. Whereas any Racket command can be expressed in Pollen notation. So having two equivalent notation systems ultimately lets you do more, not less. |# #| The definition of `link` follows the arguments above. `url` is a mandatory argument. `class` is a keyword argument (= must be introduced with #:class) and also optional (if it's not provided, it will default to #f). `xs` is a rest argument, as in "put the rest of the arguments here." Most definitions of tag functions should end with a rest argument. Why? Because in Pollen notation, the `{text ...}` in `◊func[arg]{text ...}` can return any number of arguments. Maybe one (e.g., if `text` is a word) or maybe more (e.g, if `text ...` is a multiline block). If you DON'T use a rest argument, and pass multiple text arguments to your tag function, you will get an error (namely an "arity error", which means the function got more arguments than it expected). The result of our tag function will be a tagged X-expression that looks like this: '(a ((href "url")) "text to link") '(a ((href "url")(class "name")) "text to link") X-expressions and tagged X-expressions are introduced in the Pollen docs. |# (define (link url #:class [class-name #f] . text-args) (define no-text-arguments? (empty? text-args)) (if no-text-arguments? (let ([text-to-link url]) ;; if we don't have any text to link, use `url` as the link text too. (link #:class class-name url text-to-link)) ;; otherwise, create the basic tagged X-expression, ;; and then add the `url` and (maybe) `class` attributes. ;; `let*` is the idiomatic Racket way to mutate a variable. ;; (Spoiler alert: you're not really mutating, you're creating copies.) ;; You could also use `set!` — not wrong, but not idiomatic. (let* ([link-tx (make-txexpr 'a empty text-args)] ;; `attr-set` is from the `txexpr` module. It updates an attribute value ;; and returns an updated X-expression. [link-tx (attr-set link-tx 'href url)] [link-tx (if class-name (attr-set link-tx 'class class-name) link-tx)]) link-tx))) #| Making tagged X-expressions (txexprs) In a "pollen.rkt" file you'll be making a lot of tagged X-expressions (txexprs for short). A txexpr is just a Racket list, so you can make one with any of Racket's list-making functions (which are plentiful). Let's run through a few of them, so they start to become familiar. Suppose we want to generate the txexpr '(div ((class "big")) "text"). Here are some ways to do it. 1) `make-txexpr` A utility function from the `txexpr` module. We used it in the `link` function above. The major advantage of `make-txexpr` is that it will raise an error if your arguments are invalid types for a tagged X-expression. |# (check-txexprs-equal? (make-txexpr 'div '((class "big")) '("text")) '(div ((class "big")) "text")) #| The second and third arguments to `make-txexpr` are lists, so you can use any list notation. If your txexpr doesn't have attributes, you can pass `empty` or `null` for the second argument. |# (check-txexprs-equal? (make-txexpr 'div (list '(class "big")) (list "text")) '(div ((class "big")) "text")) #| 2) `list` and `list*` `list*` is particularly useful for making txexprs, because it automatically splices the last argument. |# (check-txexprs-equal? (list 'div '((class "big")) "text") '(div ((class "big")) "text")) (check-txexprs-equal? (list* 'div '((class "big")) '("text")) '(div ((class "big")) "text")) #| 3) `cons` All lists are ultimately made of `cons` cells. So you can make txexprs with it too, though it's more cumbersome than the other methods. In most cases, `list*` is clearer & more flexible (`cons` can only take two arguments; `list*` can take any number) |# (check-txexprs-equal? (cons 'div (cons '((class "big")) (cons "text" empty))) '(div ((class "big")) "text")) (check-txexprs-equal? (cons 'div (list '((class "big")) "text")) '(div ((class "big")) "text")) #| 4) `quasiquote` As the name suggests, quasiquote works like quote, but lets you "unquote" variables within. Quasiquote notation is pleasingly compact for simple cases, but can be unruly for complex ones. The unquote operator (,) puts a variable's value into the list. The unquote splicing operator (,@) does the same thing, but if the variable holds a list of items, it merges those items into the list (i.e., does not leave them as a sublist). |# (check-txexprs-equal? (let ([tag 'div] [attrs '((class "big"))] [elements '("text")]) ; we unquote `attrs` because we want them as a sublist ; but we splice `elements` because we don't want them in a sublist `(,tag ,attrs ,@elements)) '(div ((class "big")) "text")) #| UNIT TESTS Testing, as always, is optional, but strongly recommended. Unit tests are little one-line tests that prove your function does what it says. As you refactor and reorganize your code, your unit tests will let you know if you broke anything. You can make unit tests with the `rackunit` library. Though you can put your unit tests in a separate source file, I generally prefer to put them close to the function that they're testing. (For details on the testing functions used below, see the docs for `rackunit`) The ideal way to do this is with a `test` submodule. The code in a `test` submodule will only be used a) when you run the file in DrRacket or b) when `raco test` runs the file. Otherwise, it is ignored. We'll use the `module+` syntax for this. As the name suggests, `module+` creates a submodule that incorporates everything else already in the source file. Moreover, all of our `module+ test` blocks will be combined into a single submodule. |# (module+ test (require rackunit) ;; always include this at the start of the test submodule ;; We use `check-txexprs-equal?` rather than `check-equal?` because it's a little more lenient: ;; it allows the attributes of two txexprs to be in a different order, ;; yet still be considered equal (because ordering of attributes is not semantically significant). (check-txexprs-equal? (link "http://foo.com" "link text") '(a ((href "http://foo.com")) "link text")) ;; The last test was fine, but it can be even better if we use a Pollen-mode command on the left. ;; That way, we can directly compare the command as it appears in Pollen input ;; with how it appears in the output. (check-txexprs-equal? ◊link["http://foo.com"]{link text} '(a ((href "http://foo.com")) "link text")) ;; It's wise to test as many valid input situations as you can. (check-txexprs-equal? ◊link["http://foo.com" #:class 'main]{link text} '(a ((href "http://foo.com")(class "main")) "link text")) (check-txexprs-equal? ◊link["http://foo.com"] '(a ((href "http://foo.com")) "http://foo.com")) ;; Strictly speaking, you could also write the last Pollen command like so: (check-txexprs-equal? ◊link{http://foo.com} '(a ((href "http://foo.com")) "http://foo.com")) ;; That's not wrong. But in the interests of code readability, ;; I like to reserve the curly brackets in a Pollen command ;; for material that I expect to see displayed in the output ;; (e.g., textual and other content), ;; and use the square brackets for the other arguments. ;; You can also check that errors arise when they should. ;; Note that when testing for exceptions, you need to wrap your test expression in a function ;; (so that its evaluation can be delayed, otherwise you'd get the error immediately.) ;; The `(λ _ expression)` notation is a simple way. ;; (The `_` is the idiomatic way to notate something that will be ignored, in this case arguments.) (check-exn exn:fail? (λ _ ◊link[])) ; no arguments (check-exn exn:fail? (λ _ ◊link[#:invalid-keyword 42])) ; invalid keyword argument (check-exn exn:fail? (λ _ ◊link[#f]))) ; invalid argument ;; For the sake of brevity, I'm going to write just one test for the remaining functions. ;; But you're encouraged to add more tests (or break the existing ones and see what happens). #| The next three tag functions are just convenience variations of `link`. But they involve some crafty (and necessary) uses of `apply`. |# #| `buy-book-link`: makes a link with a particular URL. Notice that we have to use `apply` to correctly pass our `text-args` rest argument to `link`. Why? Because `link` expects its text arguments to look like this: (link url text-arg-1 text-arg-2 ...) Not like this: (link url (list text-arg-1 text-arg-2 ...)) But that's what will happen if we just do `(link text-args)`, and `link` will complain. (Try it!) The role of `apply` is to take a list of arguments and append them to the end of the function call, so (apply link url (list text-arg-1 text-arg-2 ...)) Is equivalent to: (link url text-arg-1 text-arg-2 ...) |# (define (buy-book-link . text-args) (apply link buy-url text-args)) (module+ test ;; notice that we use `buy-url` in our test result. ;; That way, if we change the value of `buy-url`, the test won't break. (check-txexprs-equal? ◊buy-book-link{link text} `(a ((href ,buy-url)) "link text"))) #| `buylink`: creates a link styled with the "buylink" class. `home-link`: creates a link styled with the "home-link" class. The difference here is that we're not providing a specific URL. Rather, we want to pass through whatever URL we get from the Pollen source. So we add a `url` argument. |# (define (buylink url . text-args) (apply link url #:class "buylink" text-args)) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊buylink["http://foo.com"]{link text} '(a ((href "http://foo.com")(class "buylink")) "link text"))) (define (home-link url . text-args) (apply link url #:class "home-link" text-args)) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊home-link["http://foo.com"]{link text} '(a ((href "http://foo.com")(class "home-link")) "link text"))) #| BTW we could also be let the rest argument capture the URL, and just pass everything through with `apply`, which will work the same way: (define (buylink . url-and-text-args) (apply link #:class "buylink" url-and-text-args)) The other definition is more readable and explicit, however. |# #| `image`: make an img tag We proceed as we did with `link`. But in this case, we don't need a rest argument because this tag function doesn't accept text arguments. "Right, but shouldn't you use a rest argument just in case?" It depends on how you like errors to be handled. You could capture the text arguments with a rest argument and then just silently dispose of them. But this might be mysterious to the person editing the Pollen source (whether you or someone else). "Where did my text go?" Whereas if we omit the rest argument, and try to pass text arguments anyhow, `image` will immediately raise an error, letting us know that we're misusing it. |# (define (image src #:width [width "100%"] #:border [border? #t]) (define img-tag (attr-set* '(img) 'style (format "width: ~a" width) 'src (build-path "images" src))) (if border? (attr-set img-tag 'class "bordered") img-tag)) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊image["pic.gif"] '(img ((style "width: 100%") (class "bordered")(src "images/pic.gif")))) (check-txexprs-equal? ◊image[#:border #f "pic.gif"] '(img ((style "width: 100%")(src "images/pic.gif")))) (check-txexprs-equal? ◊image[#:width "50%" "pic.gif"] '(img ((style "width: 50%")(class "bordered")(src "images/pic.gif"))))) #| `div-scale`: wrap tag in a 'div' with a scaling factor ◊div-scale[.75]{text here ...} |# (define (div-scale factor . text-args) ; use `format` on factor because it might be either a string or a number (define base (make-txexpr 'div null text-args)) (attr-set base 'style (format "width: ~a" factor))) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊div-scale[.5]{Hello} '(div ((style "width: 0.5")) "Hello"))) #| `font-scale`: wrap tag in a 'span' with a relative font-scaling factor ◊font-scale[.75]{text here ...} |# (define (font-scale ratio . text-args) (define base (make-txexpr 'span null text-args)) (attr-set base 'style (format "font-size: ~aem" ratio))) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊font-scale[.75]{Hello} '(span ((style "font-size: 0.75em")) "Hello"))) #| `home-image`: make an image with class "home-image" ◊home-image[image-path] |# (define (home-image image-path) (attr-set (image image-path) 'class "home-image")) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊home-image["pic.gif"] '(img ((style "width: 100%") (class "home-image") (src "images/pic.gif"))))) #| `home-overlay`: create nested divs where the text sits atop a background image. ◊home-overlay[image-name]{text} This is an example of how fiddly HTML chores can be encapsulated / hidden inside a tag function. This makes your source files tidier. It also makes it possible to change the fiddly HTML markup from one central location. |# (define (home-overlay img-path . text-args) `(div ((class "home-overlay")(style ,(format "background-image: url('~a')" img-path))) (div ((class "home-overlay-inner")) ,@text-args))) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊home-overlay["pic.gif"]{Hello} '(div ((class "home-overlay") (style "background-image: url('pic.gif')")) (div ((class "home-overlay-inner")) "Hello")))) #| `glyph`: create a span with the class "glyph". ◊glyph{text} Here, I'll use `make-default-tag-function`, which is an easy way to make a simple tag function. Any keywords passed in will be propagated to every use of the tag function. |# (define glyph (make-default-tag-function 'span #:class "glyph")) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊glyph{X} '(span ((class "glyph")) "X")) (check-txexprs-equal? ◊glyph[#:id "top"]{X} '(span ((class "glyph")(id "top")) "X"))) #| `image-wrapped`: like `image` but with some extra attributes ◊image-wrapped[img-path] |# (define (image-wrapped img-path) (attr-set* (image img-path) 'class "icon" 'style "width: 120px;" 'align "left")) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊image-wrapped{my-path} '(img ((class "icon") (style "width: 120px;") (align "left") (src "images/my-path"))))) #| `detect-list-items`: helper function for other tag functions that make HTML lists. The idea is to automatically convert a sequence of three (or more) linebreaks into a new list item (i.e.,
tags is a terrible and dull task. But formatting tables is even worse. This function lets you make simple tables using "|" to signify columns, and line breaks to signify rows. Let's uncork a few more whizzy Racket commands while we're at it. This function assumes that each row has the same number of columns. You could improve it to fill in blank cells in rows that need them. |# (define (quick-table . text-args) ;; In Pollen, a multiline text-args block arrives as a list of lines and linebreak characters. ;; (A situation we already encountered in `detect-list-items`.) (define rows-of-text-cells (let ([text-rows (filter-not whitespace? text-args)]) ; throw out the linebreak characters ;; `for/list` is very handy: a `for` loop that gathers the results into a list. ;; Think of it as a more flexible version of `map`. (for/list ([text-row (in-list text-rows)]) ;; the cells are delimited within a row by "|", so split on this char (for/list ([text-cell (in-list (string-split text-row "|"))]) (string-trim text-cell))))) ; trim remaining whitespace from cell text ;; Racket's `match` functions are very useful. ;; Among other things, they can be used for Python-style data unpacking. ;; The expression on the right will produce three tag functions; ;; the `match-define` assigns them to three new identifiers. (match-define (list tr-tag td-tag th-tag) (map make-default-tag-function '(tr td th))) ;; now we'll take our rows of text cells and apply cell-level HTML tags. ;; the first row will get 'th tags; the other rows get 'td tags. (define html-rows ;; another use of `match`. Notice how this `cons` is used to separate a list into parts ... (match-let ([(cons header-row other-rows) rows-of-text-cells]) ;; ... whereas this `cons` is used to combine parts into a list (cons (map th-tag header-row) (for/list ([row (in-list other-rows)]) (map td-tag row))))) ;; With the cells tagged up, add the row tags and finally the table tag. ;; Notice that we use `apply` with `tr-tag` to unpack the list of cells in each html-row. ;; Remember that `apply` does something very simple: ;; Converts an expression of the form `(apply func (list arg1 arg2 ...))` ;; Into `(func arg1 arg2 ...)` (cons 'table (for/list ([html-row (in-list html-rows)]) (apply tr-tag html-row)))) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? ◊(quick-table "heading-one | heading-two" "\n" " three | four" "\n" "five | six ") '(table (tr (th "heading-one") (th "heading-two")) (tr (td "three") (td "four")) (tr (td "five") (td "six"))))) #| `pdf-thumbnail-link`: create a thumbnail of a PDF that links to the PDF This function will only work properly if you have `sips` on your system (command-line image-processing program, included with OS X). This shows how you can fold other kinds of project housekeeping into Pollen commands. Here, the function generates the thumbnail it needs when the page is compiled. One disadvantage of this approach is that the thumbnail will *always* be generated on recompile, though you could put in some logic to avoid this (e.g., check the modification date of the PDF). In this case, `sips` is fast enough that it's not bothersome. |# (define (pdf-thumbnail-link pdf-pathstring) (define img-extension "gif") (define img-pathstring (->string (add-ext (remove-ext pdf-pathstring) img-extension))) (define sips-command (format "sips -Z 2000 -s format ~a --out '~a' '~a' > /dev/null" img-extension img-pathstring pdf-pathstring)) ◊link[pdf-pathstring]{◊(if (system sips-command) `(img ((src ,img-pathstring))) ;; usually one would raise an error on the next line, ;; but for instructional purposes, we'll have a graceful fail "sips not available")}) #| A few convenience variants of `pdf-thumbnail-link` |# (define (pdf-thumbnail-link-from-metas metas) (define-values (dir fn _) (split-path (add-ext (remove-ext* (hash-ref metas 'here-path)) "pdf"))) (pdf-thumbnail-link (->string fn))) (define (before-and-after-pdfs base-name) `(div (div ((class "pdf-thumbnail")) "before" (br) ,(pdf-thumbnail-link (format "pdf/sample-doc-~a-before.pdf" base-name))) (div ((class "pdf-thumbnail")) "after" (br) ,(pdf-thumbnail-link (format "pdf/sample-doc-~a-after.pdf" base-name))))) (define (alternate-after-pdf base-name) `(div ((class "pdf-thumbnail")) "after (alternate)" (br) ,(pdf-thumbnail-link (format "pdf/sample-doc-~a-after-alternate.pdf" base-name)))) #| `root`: decode page content In a Pollen markup source, the output is a tagged X-expression that starts with `root`: (root (div ((class "headline")) "Page title") ...) Recall that every Pollen tag calls a function with the same name (if it exists, otherwise it just becomes a tag). This is also true of `root`. `root` has slightly special status inasmuch as it is the top tag of the X-expression, and thus the last tag function that will get called. Therefore, `root` is a good place to put any processing that should happen once all the page content has been filled in. Often, you'll want to use a `decode` function, which can recursively perform different kinds of processing on different types of page elements. |# (define (root . elems) ;; We will do the decoding in two steps. ;; Detect paragraphs first so that they're treated as block-txexprs in next phase. (define elements-with-paragraphs (decode-elements elems #:txexpr-elements-proc detect-paragraphs)) ;; Then do the rest of the decoding normally. (list* 'div '((id "doc")) (decode-elements elements-with-paragraphs #:block-txexpr-proc hyphenate-block #:string-proc (compose1 make-quotes-hangable fix-em-dashes smart-quotes) #:exclude-tags '(style script)))) #| `hyphenate-block`: helper function for root decoder |# (define (hyphenate-block block-tx) ;; The basic `hyphenate` function comes from the `hyphenate` module. ;; We could attach `hyphenate` to our decoder as a string processor rather than block processor. ;; But we want to be able to handle our "no-hyphens" flag (aka `no-hyphens-attr`). ;; So we want to look at blocks, not strings. (define (no-hyphens? tx) (or (member (get-tag tx) '(th h1 h2 h3 h4 style script)) ; don't hyphenate these, no matter what (member no-hyphens-attr (get-attrs tx)))) ; also don't hyphenate blocks with `no-hyphens-attr` (hyphenate block-tx #:min-left-length 3 #:min-right-length 3 #:omit-txexpr no-hyphens?)) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? (hyphenate-block `(div "snowman" (span (,no-hyphens-attr) "snowman"))) `(div "snow\u00ADman" (span (,no-hyphens-attr) "snowman")))) #| `make-quotes-hangable`: perform tricky processing on quotation marks. Because I'm a typography snob I like to push quotation marks into the margin a little bit when they appear at the left edge of a line (aka "hanging quotes"). This function just wraps left-hand quote marks in two little tags ("push" and "pull") that I can then manipulate in CSS to get the effect. |# (define (make-quotes-hangable str) ;; using `regexp-match*` with #:gap-select? makes it act like a funny kind of string splitter (define substrs (regexp-match* #px"\\s?[“‘]" str #:gap-select? #t)) (if (= (length substrs) 1) ; no submatches (car substrs) (cons 'quo (append-map (λ(str) (let ([strlen (string-length str)]) (if (> strlen 0) (case (substring str (sub1 strlen) strlen) [("‘") (list '(squo-push) `(squo-pull ,str))] [("“") (list '(dquo-push) `(dquo-pull ,str))] [else (list str)]) (list str)))) substrs)))) (module+ test (check-txexprs-equal? (make-quotes-hangable "“Who is it?”") '(quo "" (dquo-push) (dquo-pull "“") "Who is it?”"))) #| `fix-em-dashes`: helper function for root decoder When I type an em dash in my sources, I will often leave a space around it, but I don't want spaces in the output, so this function removes them. |# (define (fix-em-dashes str) ;; \u00A0 = nbsp, \u2009 = thinsp (neither included in \s) (let* ([str (regexp-replace* #px"(?<=\\w)[\u00A0\u2009\\s]—" str "—")] [str (regexp-replace* #px"—[\u00A0\u2009\\s](?=\\w)" str "—")]) str)) (module+ test (check-equal? (fix-em-dashes "Hey — you!") "Hey—you!") (check-equal? (fix-em-dashes "Hey—you!") "Hey—you!")) #| `capitalize-first-letter`: utility function for use in HTML templates. |# (define (capitalize-first-letter str) (regexp-replace #rx"^." str string-upcase)) (module+ test (check-equal? (capitalize-first-letter "foo dog") "Foo dog")) #| Miscellaneous tag functions. Obvious at this point what they do. |# (define omission (make-default-tag-function 'div #:class "omission")) (define mono (make-default-tag-function 'span #:class "mono")) (define font-details (make-default-tag-function 'div #:class "font-details")) (define mb-font-specimen (make-default-tag-function 'div #:class "mb-font-specimen" #:contenteditable "true")) (define (margin-note . xs) `(div ((class "margin-note") ,no-hyphens-attr) ,@xs)) (define os (make-default-tag-function 'span #:class "os")) (define (gap [size 1.5]) `(div ((style ,(format "height: ~arem" size))))) (define (center . xs) `(div ((style "text-align:center")) ,@xs)) (define (indented #:hyphenate [hyphenate #t] . xs) `(p ((class "indented"),@(if (not hyphenate) (list no-hyphens-attr) null)) ,@xs)) (define caption-runin (make-default-tag-function 'span #:class "caption-runin")) (define caption (make-default-tag-function 'span #:class "caption")) (define (captioned name . xs) `(table ((class "captioned indented")) (tr (td ((style "text-align:left")) ,@xs) (td ,(caption name)))))