This is experimental.

Example:

-# Sunset solar eclipse to brush Columbus Sunday
-- Ben Keith
-- benlkeith
-- 2012-05-18 04:19
-- Blog
-- published
+---
+title: 'Sunset solar eclipse to brush Columbus Sunday'
+author: Ben Keith
+twitter_handle: benlkeith
+date: 2012-05-18
+time: 04:19
+categories: Blog
+classes: published
+---

How to use this:

1. Copy your Dropplets post markdown files into your jekyll site's _posts directory
   • If your site's filenames are not named with the extension .md, rename them now, or edit script.sh to read from a different filename.
2. Clone this repository in the same directory that contains your _posts directory, so that your directory layout looks like this:

   ├── 404.html
   ├── Gemfile
   ├── Gemfile.lock
   ├── _config.yml
   ├── _posts
   │   └── example.md
   ├── _site
   ├── converter
   │   ├── convert.py
   │   ├── requirements.txt
   │   └── script.sh
   └── index.md
   

3. in the converter directory, run pip install -r requirements.txt.
   • I recommend using a virtualenv with virtualenvwrapper.
   • We're only using this to install Chris Amico's frontmatter library from pypi. This script uses frontmatter to make sure that the post-conversion frontmatter is validly formatted, and it's only partially effective at doing so. Jekyll barfs on some things; it's best to run jekyll serve or jekyll build to make sure. If you don't want to rely on frontmatter, delete the line in convert.py in main that calls frontmatter_parse
4. copy script.sh from /converter to the parent directory:

   ├── 404.html
   ├── Gemfile
   ├── Gemfile.lock
   ├── _config.yml
   ├── _posts
   │   └── example.md
   ├── _site
   ├── converter
   │   ├── convert.py
   │   └── requirements.txt
   ├── index.md
   └── script.sh
   

5. Run the converter: ./script.sh.

This assumes:

• that you're running Python 2 as python
• that your files are named .md
• that your files are using \n for end-of-line; use dos2unix to fix this if not.
• some things that were true for my files that may not be true for yours; see the contents of convert.py. I hacked the "post status" line item to support multiple words, which were then added as class names and separate templates. For more about that, see the dropplets template I was using.