Hey Russell, in case it wasn’t clear, please understand that I was making a joke with a (probably overly obscured) compliment. I very much admire folks who use manual tools like LaTeX and Emacs, and also like a lot of what I know of Australian culture. Although “Crocodile Dundee” was an absurd stereotype of that culture, a lot of us Americans relate to the brash, no-BS character of that stereotype. And in case you didn’t see the movie, my comment referred to a scene where some American gang punk pulls a switchblade knife and threatens Dundee with it. Dundee says “Knife?”, pulls out a huge Bowie knife, holds it up, and says in that stereotyped accent, “Now, *that’s* a knife!”.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > It's odd. I've been building websites in LaTeX for more than 20 years > now. Much of what passes for modern (eg markdown, CMSes, FrontPage and so on) > just seem to be reinvented wheels, poorly implemented. > > Having chosen my horse, and invested heavily in it, LaTeX just keeps > delivering. Such as producing full colour overhead transparencies > years before Power Point became available. Such as the afore mentioned > website generation. And of course, it excels in what it was originally > designed for, producing beautiful books. > > Anyway, I'm sure its not everybody's cup of tea. > > Cheers > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 08:15:57PM -0500, Gary Schiltz wrote: >> Do websites in LaTeX? Wow! >> >> (with my apologies, and my thickest, faux-Aussie Paul Hogan accent) >> >> “Geek??? Now, *that’s* a geek!" >> >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Probably not what you want, but I author all my websites in LaTeX, and >> > use a combination of LaTeX2HTML and Makefiles to publish the site. I >> > use subversion or git to do content management. You could also use >> > latexml, which provides a slightly more modern output, but I like >> > LaTex2HTML because its basically a bunch of perl scripts that are >> > eminenently hackable. >> > >> > Great for static websites, with all the added goodness of LaTeX (which >> > is a superior markup language for most purposes than Markdown). >> > >> > Its also fairly easy to embed PHP and Javascript code directly into >> > the LaTeX source files too, so dynamic websites are also possible, but >> > with LaTeX macros, and perl scriptability, a lot can be done statically. >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 04:16:47PM -0600, Robert Wall wrote: >> >> Hi Owen, et al., >> >> >> >> You might also try this nearly-free ($17) >> >> <https://sites.fastspring.com/openwe/instant/kirby2-personal>, >> >> well-supported <http://getkirby.com/support>, database-free CMS >> >> <http://web.appstorm.net/reviews/web-dev/kirby-the-flat-file-cms-thatll-make-you-rethink-content-management/> >> >> called Kirby <http://getkirby.com/>. It is file-based and very easy to >> >> implement just about anything you want to do on an individual personal >> >> website. You can also experiment locally with Kirby (without a host) on >> >> MAMP, XAMPP and PHP's built-in server for local installations. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> Robert Wall >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Are any of us using a static site generator? Here's a list: >> >> > https://www.staticgen.com/ >> >> > Basically it gets rid of the need for a Content Management System, >> >> > compiling the site from Markdown and html templates. >> >> > >> >> > I'm thinking of doing this, my old ISP died and it would be a good time >> >> > for a change. >> >> > >> >> > -- Owen >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > ============================================================ >> >> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> >> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> >> > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> > >> > >> >> ============================================================ >> >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> > Principal, High Performance Coders >> > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] >> > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > ============================================================ >> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
