5 files changed, 111 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index a4704e9..596f8bf 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ---
 pagetitle: "INSTALL"
 author: onefang
-feedatom: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/atom
 history: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/log/INSTALL.md
-sourcecode: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/
 ---
 
 notYetAnotherWiki uses [lcmark](https://github.com/jgm/lcmark) to parse [CommonMark](https://commonmark.org/) into HTML.  You can probably install it using luarocks.  lua-yaml is the YAML parsing library I test with.
diff --git a/MeTaDaTa.md b/MeTaDaTa.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab7b673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MeTaDaTa.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+feedatom: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/atom
+sourcecode: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/
+---
diff --git a/README b/README
index 82f1538..29e3b63 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ---
 pagetitle: "notYetAnotherWiki"
 author: onefang
-feedatom: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/atom
 history: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/log/index.md
-sourcecode: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/
 ---
 
 notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It'll be much
@@ -70,6 +68,10 @@ Currently it'll scan the current directory and subdirectories looking for
 variations.  Then it produces .HTML files converted from these .md files,
 and links them all together into a web site.
 
+Any .md file that is just the beginning metadata block doesn't get
+rendered into HTML, but is global metadata for this directory and subs,
+though the subs can override this with their own metadata.md files.
+
 git is used to store the .md files, and provides edit history.  Added on
 the footer is links to cgit, which is used to store the files in git on
 your server.  This provides acces to the source code, history, and ATOM
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 5f03522..f809490 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 ---
 pagetitle: "TODO"
 author: onefang
-feedatom: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/atom
 history: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/log/TODO.md
-sourcecode: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/
 ---
 ## Do these
 
-Any .md file that is just the beginning metadata block doesn't get rendered into HTML, but is global metadata for this directory and subs, though the subs can override this.
-
 Footer is still wrong.
 
 Clean up the favicon and logo stuff.
diff --git a/notYetAnotherWiki.lua b/notYetAnotherWiki.lua
index be46646..65137b5 100755
--- a/notYetAnotherWiki.lua
+++ b/notYetAnotherWiki.lua
@@ -120,6 +120,109 @@ for k, v in pairs(sites) do
                 local body, metadata, err = lcmark.convert(cm, "html", {smart = true, yaml_metadata = true, columns = 0})
 
                 if nil == body then print('oops! ' .. err) else
+
+
+                    if '' == body then
+                        -- A simple v.metadata = metadata wont work, you end up with a reference so that changes to metadata get applied to v.metadata.
+                        v.metadata = {}
+                        for l, y in pairs(metadata) do
+                            v.metadata[l] = y
+                        end
+                        local argh = {}
+                        for l, y in ipairs(v.files) do
+                            if w.name ~= y.name then table.insert(argh, y) end
+                        end
+                        v.files = argh
+                        print('')
+                    else
+
+                        local bod, err = lcmark.compile_template(body)
+                        if nil == bod then print('oops! ' .. err) else
+                            local templateFile = metadata.template
+                            if nil == file then
+                                templateFile = nil
+                            else
+                                if nil == templateFile then templateFile = 'default' end
+                                templateFile = templateFile .. '.template'
+                                for m, x in pairs(globalData) do                if nil == metadata[m] then metadata[m] = x else print('metadata already has ' .. m) end end
+                                if nil ~= v.metadata then
+                                    for m, x in pairs(v.metadata) do    if nil == metadata[m] then metadata[m] = x else print('metadata already has ' .. m) end end
+                                end
+                            end
+
+                            if nil ~= v.files then
+                                for m, x in ipairs(v.files) do
+                                    metadata.menu = metadata.menu .. x.URL .. '\n'
+                                end
+                            end
+                            if nil ~= v.subs then
+                                for m, x in pairs(v.subs) do
+                                    metadata.header = metadata.header .. x.URL
+                                end
+                            end
+
+                            local num = #(v.bits)
+                            local trail = '<a href="' .. string.rep('../', num) .. '">home</a> &nbsp; '
+                            local p = v.parent
+                            for i = 1, num do
+                                trail = trail .. '<a href="' .. string.rep('../', num - i) .. '">' .. v.bits[i] .. '</a> &nbsp; '
+                            end
+                            trail = trail .. w.name
+                            metadata.trail = trail
+
+                            metadata.body = lcmark.apply_template(bod, metadata)
+
+                            local tm = ''
+                            if nil ~= templateFile then
+                                local h = io.open(templateFile, 'r')
+                                if nil ~= h then
+                                    tm = tm .. h:read('*a')
+                                    h:close()
+                                else
+                                    print('oops! No such file ' .. templateFile)
+                                end
+
+                                local template, err = lcmark.compile_template(tm)
+                                if nil == template then print('oops! ' .. err) else
+                                    result = lcmark.apply_template(template, metadata)
+                                end
+                            else
+                                result = body
+                            end
+
+                            if ('' ~= result) and (nil ~= file) then
+                                local base = path .. w.name .. '.HTML'
+                                print(base)
+                                local a, e = io.open(base, 'w')
+                                if nil == a then print('Could not open ' .. base .. ' - ' .. e) else
+                                    a:write(result)
+                                    a:close()
+                                end
+                            else
+                                print('')
+                            end
+                        end
+
+                    end
+                end
+
+                h:close()
+            else
+                print('oops! No such file ' .. file)
+            end
+
+        end
+    end
+
+end
+
+            local h = io.open(file, 'r')
+            if nil ~= h then
+                local cm = h:read('*a')
+                local result = ''
+                local body, metadata, err = lcmark.convert(cm, "html", {smart = true, yaml_metadata = true, columns = 0})
+
+                if nil == body then print('oops! ' .. err) else
                     local bod, err = lcmark.compile_template(body)
                     if nil == bod then print('oops! ' .. err) else
                         local templateFile = metadata.template