* A Blorg/org based blog
@ 2007-10-14 19:25 Rick
2007-10-14 21:30 ` Bastien
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From: Rick @ 2007-10-14 19:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bzg; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi all,
I just thought I'd mention that I've started using blorg & org-mode as
a tool for my blogging activities. Though I thought it best to hold
off on the announcement until I got my second post out.
I don't find writing such things easy, so I'm happy to be using
blorg/org/emacs which don't seem to interfere as much with the
creative flow as logging into a wordpress/blogger account can.
http://sourcesmouth.co.uk/blog/
First impressions are that Blorg seems to work quite well, though it
takes some setting up, and could be made more flexible plus it
sometimes seems to be a little temperamental in publishing to html
with links not rendering properly etc
Thanks again to Carsten and Bastien for providing this software.
--
Rick
rick.moynihan@gmail.com
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* Re: A Blorg/org based blog
2007-10-14 19:25 A Blorg/org based blog Rick
@ 2007-10-14 21:30 ` Bastien
2007-10-16 21:38 ` Rick
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From: Bastien @ 2007-10-14 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi Rick,
Rick <rick.moynihan@gmail.com> writes:
> I don't find writing such things easy, so I'm happy to be using
> blorg/org/emacs which don't seem to interfere as much with the
> creative flow as logging into a wordpress/blogger account can.
>
> http://sourcesmouth.co.uk/blog/
Glad to see this!
> First impressions are that Blorg seems to work quite well, though it
> takes some setting up, and could be made more flexible
Sure. I wrote blorg more than one year ago, and I made the mistake of
trying too add too many functions too early.
Since that time, Org changed a lot and introduced properties - blorg
should be able to take advantage of them somehow. Also, some code I
wrote in org-export-latex.el could be of some help in parsing the Org
file to get it published as a blog.
My plan is to rewrite blorg nearly from scratch, trying not to rush on
functionnalities and adding them only if people need them.
> sometimes seems to be a little temperamental in publishing to html
> with links not rendering properly etc
The next version of blorg will use Org internals for rendering HTML.
The good thing of all this is that, no matter how far blorg1 will be
from blorg0, you can always work on your Org source without worrying
too much on this! Source is source :)
Thanks for trying blorg, happy orging,
--
Bastien
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* Re: Re: A Blorg/org based blog
2007-10-14 21:30 ` Bastien
@ 2007-10-16 21:38 ` Rick
2007-10-17 1:22 ` Bastien
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From: Rick @ 2007-10-16 21:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On 14/10/2007, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> > First impressions are that Blorg seems to work quite well, though it
> > takes some setting up, and could be made more flexible
>
> Sure. I wrote blorg more than one year ago, and I made the mistake of
> trying too add too many functions too early.
Ahhh, the benefit of hindsight :) You may feel you've added the
features too quick, but the feature set seems reasonably good.
> Since that time, Org changed a lot and introduced properties - blorg
> should be able to take advantage of them somehow. Also, some code I
> wrote in org-export-latex.el could be of some help in parsing the Org
> file to get it published as a blog.
Yes, I can imagine that properties might be useful, perhaps for
enabling/disabling features at publish time (e.g. comment forms
etc...). This said I'm only just starting to explore their uses in
plain org-mode, so I don't really know yet.
> My plan is to rewrite blorg nearly from scratch, trying not to rush on
> functionnalities and adding them only if people need them.
Yes it's a good strategy and one that's worked well for org-mode. I
do however have some features which I'd like to see. If it's not too
rude, I'll list some here:
- Ability to define your own HTML <head>'s. Specifically here the
issue was wanting to list a 3rd party feed (feedburner) rather than
my own as a <link> in the <head>. I did in fact modify blorg.el to do
this through a new customize variable. If you want I can send you the
patch.
- Ability to include code blocks in posts (with syntax highlighting).
- The ability to make an image a link i.e. to output <a href="..."><img ...></a>
- To allow sorting of published posts by their date rather than their
order in the org-mode file.
- To have more customizable echoes.
I also noticed that my templates tended to be practically identical,
causing a lot of duplicated code between them. Being able to include
your own elisp in these templates would also be handy. Also
writing/copying&pasting HTML inside customize buffers is a little
painful.
> > sometimes seems to be a little temperamental in publishing to html
> > with links not rendering properly etc
>
> The next version of blorg will use Org internals for rendering HTML.
This makes a lot of sense.
> The good thing of all this is that, no matter how far blorg1 will be
> from blorg0, you can always work on your Org source without worrying
> too much on this! Source is source :)
Agreed! This said I'm already eager to move to blorg1. It'd be great
if I could use my old blorg.org file on the new version though, even
if I have to change my configuration.
Thanks again!
R.
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* Re: Re: A Blorg/org based blog
2007-10-16 21:38 ` Rick
@ 2007-10-17 1:22 ` Bastien
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From: Bastien @ 2007-10-17 1:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Rick <rick.moynihan@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes it's a good strategy and one that's worked well for org-mode. I
> do however have some features which I'd like to see. If it's not too
> rude, I'll list some here:
>
> - Ability to define your own HTML <head>'s. Specifically here the
> issue was wanting to list a 3rd party feed (feedburner) rather than
> my own as a <link> in the <head>. I did in fact modify blorg.el to do
> this through a new customize variable. If you want I can send you the
> patch.
Please do!
> - Ability to include code blocks in posts (with syntax highlighting).
I've just discovered the htmlize-output-type variable (letting some
htmlized code to be embedded in other HTML documents), so it should
be possible.
> - The ability to make an image a link i.e. to output <a href="..."><img ...></a>
> - To allow sorting of published posts by their date rather than their
> order in the org-mode file.
> - To have more customizable echoes.
Agreed.
> I also noticed that my templates tended to be practically identical,
> causing a lot of duplicated code between them.
Yes, some re-factorization needed here.
> Being able to include your own elisp in these templates would also be
> handy. Also writing/copying&pasting HTML inside customize buffers is
> a little painful.
Mhh.. true.
Thanks for the feedback!
--
Bastien
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