Keep It Simple Text (KIST)
A Lightweight, Plain Text Documentation & Publishing System
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Keep It Simple Text (KIST) - Users Guide
Audio Galleries Kist Projects Video 2026
KIST combines the best elements of various markup formats I've worked with over the past forty years. The original purpose of these tools was to generate valid HTML without special editors or technical knowledge. The plain text source files are nearly universal, portable, and reusable!
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KIST to HTML Conversion Notes
Kist Projects 2026
Kist.pl renders documents as
plain vanilla
HTML by default. Generated pages willdegrade gracefully
to the degree possible. These pages contain a minimal set of CSS styles and javascript in the <head> element. (This helps make each kist-generated document self-contained.) Authors are free to override these styles with their own custom styles (using the -s flag). -
KIST Markup - Quick Reference
Kist Projects 2025
Consult the full documentation for additional features… https://richard.mdpaths.com/projects/kist/
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KIST to eBook Conversion Notes
Kist Projects 2024
There is one caveat when creating the final zip archive. The
mimetype
file must be uncompressed and positioned first in the archive. This is so reader and other software can confirm the format (application/epub+zip). -
KIST/BLIS Integration Notes
Kist Projects 2024
The BLIS Static Web Journaling System is an alternative to more complex blogging software such as wordpress. The html documents (aka
Articles
) generated by KIST are fully compatible with BLIS.