Re: Tuning the layout of published html

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2016-07-19, at 15:09, Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> I am writing teaching material (for programming) using Org. All the
> material (text, figures, code, program outputs) are written using Org
> and Babel-supported languages. Publishing to html works just fine. What
> I would like to do, however, is to add some layout structure to the
> produced html.
>
> More specifically, I would like to add, on all pages, a navigation bar
> on the left-hand side and a title bar with no functionality on the top
> of each page.
>
> What options do I have to accomplish this? Searches led me to "derived
> backends," but they sound like an overkill for a task that is this
> simple. Or?

I don't know about other ways, but a derived backend /can/ be really
simple -- you might as well use the "derived backend" feature to modify
just the page template.  You'd probably have to look at the
`org-html-template' function and write your version of it.

> Jarmo

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University