Hello, I spent the past couple of days hacking together this new blog based on org-publish that I'd like to show you (comments welcome!):
Blog: <https://createyourpersonalaccount.github.io/blog-v2/> git repo: <https://github.com/createyourpersonalaccount/blog-v2> The highlights are that I got 1) MathJax to work 2) TikZ commutative diagrams to work as SVG files 3) Source code blocks + colors (server-side; not a .js coloring client-side) 4) A nice navigation sidebar 5) I get to preview locally if I want but also I have a GitHub workflow that automatically builds my blog; both views are the same. In this format all I have to do is add .org files under the content/pages/ directory (and .tex files under the content/img/ directory for the commutative diagrams) and run `make` and the static blog is built. I know there's several ways to improve but I want to bring a couple of points where you might be able to help me: 1) I got colors in source blocks by post-processing with node.js + highlight.js the raw HTML. Is it possible to write my own backend that feeds the source block into my node app? 2) I got several issues with how the org files are exported as HTML, for example I may want to insert an <article> tag, I may want a div around content and a div around nav bar, etc. Not everything can be solved with #+HTML: tags because I don't have precise control of where those go. Can the HTML backend be edited or do I have to write my own backend? 3) I am very inexperienced with org backends. What good resources are out there for this subject? Finally a highlight of the hacks I had to pull off: apparently #+INCLUDE: will strip away inline backend information such as @@html:<b>@@. I figured out that if I write something like @@html@@a:@@:<b>@@, only the inner @@a:@@ is recognized and stripped, which leaves me with what I originally wanted! (see <https://github.com/createyourpersonalaccount/blog-v2/blob/main/content/publish.el#L14-L20>) Regards, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou
