---
title: Colophon
id: colophon
genre: prose

project:
    title: Front matter
    class: front-matter
...

_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is a hypertextual exploration
of the clockwork of inspiration, revision, and obsession.
It represents a compilation of most of my writing,
linked together along thematic lines into a sort of whole.
It lives on the web.
Instead of hand-coding all of the HTML files you're reading now,
I've relied on a process that leverages open-source technologies
to publish my work onto a web platform.

The [source files][] are authored in [Vim][]
using an [extended version][] of [Markdown][].
It's compiled into the HTML you're reading,
as well as a few other formats,
with [Pandoc][], a document-conversion tool.
The site is hosted on [Github][] and [Namecheap][].
You can view the repository at <http://github.com/duckwork/autocento>.

I use a [Makefile][] to compile the text source files
into HTML, and to generate a series of [appendices][]
and [other site][] [functionality][]
with the help of a [compilation shell script][].

I use this system because it's fairly simple, extensible, and open.
It's available for anyone to examine, learn from, and use.
See the [license][] for more details.

[Email me][] with questions or accolades,
or submit a [pull request][] or [issue][] on Github.

[source files]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/tree/gh-pages/text
[Vim]: http://www.vim.org
[extended version]: http://johnmcfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[Pandoc]: http://johnmcfarlane.net/pandoc/
[Github]: https://github.com
[Namecheap]: http://namecheap.com
[Makefile]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/makefile
[appendices]: hapax.html
[other site]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/scripts/randomize.js
[functionality]: backlinks/in-bed.html
[compilation shell script]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/scripts/compile.sh
[license]: license.html
[Email me]: mailto:case.duckworth+autocento@gmail.com
[pull request]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/pulls
[issue]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/issues