Lisp gurus, here is my feeble attempt at DRYing out my org-publish-project-alist.
I'm setting up an octopress publishing system for several blogs, so my list might grow and I'd like to avoid duplication
* Please advise on how I may make this cleaner and clearer. Original is at bottom.
* And is there a better way than using the publishing settings for things like with-toc?
(setq my-common-octopress-settings
'(:base-extension "org"
:with-toc nil
:with-sub-superscript nil
:recursive t
:publishing-function org-jekyll-publish-to-html
:headline-levels 4
:body-only t))
(setq my-static-directories '("about" "meta" "tips"))
(setq my-base-directory "~/a/railsonmaui-octopress/source")
(defun my-create-octopress-static (prj base-directory)
(let* (
(base-dir (concat base-directory "/" prj))
(prj-list (append (list :base-directory base-dir
:publishing-directory base-dir)
my-common-octopress-settings))
)
(cons prj prj-list)))
(setq my-var (mapcar '(lambda (prj)
(my-create-octopress-static prj my-base-directory))
my-static-directories))
(setq org-publish-project-alist
(append (list
;; blog articles
(cons "blog-org" (append '(:base-directory "~/a/railsonmaui-octopress/source/org_posts/"
:base-extension "org"
:publishing-directory "~/a/railsonmaui-octopress/source/_posts/")
my-common-octopress-settings))
(cons "blog-extra" '(:base-directory "~/a/railsonmaui-octopress/source/org_posts/"
:publishing-directory "~/a/railsonmaui-octopress/source/"
:base-extension "css\\|pdf\\|png\\|jpg\\|gif\\|svg"
:publishing-function org-publish-attachment
:recursive t
:author nil
))
;; all together
(cons "blog" '(:components ("blog-org" "blog-extra about meta tips")))
)
(mapcar '(lambda (prj)
(my-create-octopress-static prj my-base-directory))
my-static-directories)
))
(setq org-publish-project-alist
'(
("blog-org" . (:base-directory "~/a/octopress/source/org_posts/"
:base-extension "org"
:publishing-directory "~/a/octopress/source/_posts/"
:table-of-contents nil
:sub-superscript nil
:recursive t
:publishing-function org-publish-org-to-octopress
:headline-levels 4
:html-extension "markdown"
:octopress-extension "markdown"
:body-only t))
("blog-extra" . (:base-directory "~/a/octopress/source/org_posts/"
:publishing-directory "~/a/octopress/source/"
:base-extension "css\\|pdf\\|png\\|jpg\\|gif\\|svg"
:publishing-function org-publish-attachment
:recursive t
:author nil
))
("about" . (:base-directory "~/a/octopress/source/about/"
:base-extension "org"
:publishing-directory "~/a/octopress/source/about/"
:sub-superscript nil
:table-of-contents nil
:recursive t
:publishing-function org-publish-org-to-octopress
:headline-levels 4
:html-extension "markdown"
:octopress-extension "markdown"
:body-only t))
("meta" . (:base-directory "~/a/octopress/source/meta/"
:base-extension "org"
:publishing-directory "~/a/octopress/source/meta/"
:sub-superscript nil
:table-of-contents nil
:recursive t
:publishing-function org-publish-org-to-octopress
:headline-levels 4
:html-extension "markdown"
:octopress-extension "markdown"
:body-only t))
("tips" . (:base-directory "~/a/octopress/source/tips/"
:base-extension "org"
:publishing-directory "~/a/octopress/source/tips/"
:sub-superscript nil
:table-of-contents nil
:recursive t
:publishing-function org-publish-org-to-octopress
:headline-levels 4
:html-extension "markdown"
:octopress-extension "markdown"
:body-only t))
("blog" . (:components ("blog-org" "blog-extra about")))
))