= Jemdoc - A Tool For Creating Static HTML Pages
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== How It All Began
I first knew about Jemdoc when I visited [http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/ Professor Stephen Boyd's Website] During a course in 'Computational Methods in Optimization'. I was impressed by the clean design of Professor Boyd's homepage and noticed that it was created using Jemdoc.

I then visited Jemdoc's homepage and liked it's simple-but-rich syntax.

== What Is Jemdoc
Jemdoc is a python script, which processes files written in jemdoc's syntax (which is far much easier
than html) to generate clean XHTML 1.1 compliant static html webpages (In case you haven't noticed yet: this page was created with Jemdoc).
Ah, and the most important fact about Jemdoc: It's free (as in free speech).

== What Can I Do With Jemdoc
In general, you can create very good looking HTML webpages in a very short time. Jemdoc allows you to concentrate on content, and it takes care of the design. It's similar to [http://www.lyx.org LyX] in this aspect.
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You can easily create information blocks with jemdoc.
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You can also use code blocks as in this example:
~~~
{}{c}
#include <stdio.h>
int
main() {
	printf("Jemdoc is great");
	return (0);
}
~~~

== So What We Already Know About Jemdoc
- It's great, because:
	. It creates static HTML pages:
		.. Which are XHTML 1.1 compliant.
		.. And very clean and good looking.
	. Its syntax is easy.
- It's also great because it's free.

== Resources
I know you can't wait to use Jemdoc, so [http://jemdoc.jaboc.net here is Jemdoc's website].
You can find there:
- jemdoc.py    : Which is the main script.
- jemdoc.css   : A default css (which you can customize if you like)
- jemdoc.vim   : A syntax file for vim
- An example makefile
- More examples of jemdoc's syntax

== And Last Thing
You can find the source file of this page [http://amirwatad.com/blog/more/jemdoc/example.jemdoc here].
I used the default css which comes with jemdoc. If you insist to see it, it's located [http://amirwatad.com/blog/more/jemdoc/jemdoc.css here].
Enjoy!