I wrote a small plugin to enable me to easily include my poetry translations in Octopress posts, based on the include_code tag.

To install, copy include_poem.rb to your octopress/plugins directory.

It is currently optimized for the Octoflat theme and may not render properly in other themes.

An example:

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{% include_poem title="Roses are Red" left=roses.txt %}

will render:

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Sugar is sweet,

And so are you.

For rendering translations,

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{% include_poem title="Roses are Red" left=roses.txt right=roses.txt %}

will render two poems side-by-side:

Roses are red,

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Violets are blue,

Sugar is sweet,

Sugar is sweet,

And so are you.

And so are you.

The tag will process markdown in the files, and separate out footnotes. For example given a file that looks like:

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Here is a line[^1]
And here is *another*.

[^1]: What a line looks like.

You will see something like this:

Here is a line1

And here is another.