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From: Rick <rick.moynihan@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: A Blorg/org based blog
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:38:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e85471e30710161438xae8da99v91ce604e2c29e748@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6jxxu24.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-14 19:25 A Blorg/org based blog Rick
2007-10-14 21:30 ` Bastien
2007-10-16 21:38   ` Rick [this message]
2007-10-17  1:22     ` Bastien

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