News feed items

• new PomBase items should be added to the directory src/docs/news.PomBase/
• use Markdown format
• the first line should be a Markdown header eg. ### Some header
• file names should start with the date in ISO format and end with ".md", eg. 2018-05-22-book-chapter.md

Directives

These directives must appear immediately after the heading. The must be surrounded by html comment characters so the directives aren't displayed in the browser, eg.

<!-- some directive -->

There are two legal directives:

pombase_flags

There are two possible flags:

• frontpage - this news item should appear on the front page
• draft - this news item is a draft that shouldn't appear on the web site

Example:

 ### New PomBase genomic region graphics
 <!-- pombase_flags: frontpage -->

newsfeed_thumbnail

To add a thumbnail to the item use:

<!-- newsfeed_thumbnail: browser.png -->

The icon image file should 32x32 pixels and be added to this directory in Git: src/assets/newsfeed/

Front page summaries

To show a summary on the front page with a link to the full post in the news archive, add this magic string on its own line in the Markdown file:

<!-- end-of-summary -->

Only the text before this end-of-summary marker will be shown on the front page.