From 06787773182125e4a958b597dc75e5e2ae02a4ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:47:17 +0200
Subject: update

---
 blogthis | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/blogthis b/blogthis
index fbb3155..43e4e51 100755
--- a/blogthis
+++ b/blogthis
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ ROOT="$HOME/web"
 
 mkdir -p $ROOT/.tmp   
 cd $ROOT/.tmp || exit
+rm *
 EDITTMP="tmp.txt"
 EDITHTM="tmp.html"
+HEADTMP="top.html"
 DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
 
 read -r -p "Enter title: " TITLE
@@ -19,14 +21,21 @@ ARTICLEDATE="${input:-$DATE}"
 YEAR=$(echo "$ARTICLEDATE" | cut -c 1-4)
 DEST="$ROOT/articles/$YEAR"
 
-echo "<h2>$TITLE</h2>" > $EDITTMP
-echo "<h5>$ARTICLEDATE</h5>" >> $EDITTMP
-echo "<h4>$DESCRIPTION</h4>" >> $EDITTMP
-echo -e "<p>&nbsp;</p>\n" >> $EDITTMP
+# build header
+echo "<h2>$TITLE</h2>" > "$HEADTMP"
+echo "<h5>$ARTICLEDATE</h5>" >> "$HEADTMP"
+echo "<h4>$DESCRIPTION</h4>" >> "$HEADTMP"
+echo "<br>" >> "$HEADTMP"
 
+# write article
 micro +6:1 "$EDITTMP"
+
+# concatenate
 md2html -o "$EDITHTM" "$EDITTMP" 
+cat "$EDITHTM" >> "$HEADTMP"
+mv "$HEADTMP" "$EDITHTM" 
 
+# build final html article
 FIXEDTITLE=${TITLE// /-}
 ARTICLE="$FIXEDTITLE.html"
 
@@ -57,12 +66,16 @@ echo "      </article>
   </body>
 </html>" >> "$ARTICLE"
 
-prettier --write "$ARTICLE"
 mv "$ARTICLE" "$DEST"
+#tidy -m --tidy-mark no "$DEST/$ARTICLE"
+prettier --write "$DEST/$ARTICLE"
 
-echo "saved as $DEST/$ARTICLE"
+clear
+cat "$DEST/$ARTICLE"
 
 echo "--------------------------"
+echo "saved as $DEST/$ARTICLE"
+
 read -rp "Update the sitemap and rss feed, then upload to your server? ; " choix
 
 if [ "$choix" != "n" ] ; then
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