Re: Moving from Jekyll to Orgmode

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

ST <smntov@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to rewrite my website using Orgmode (till now I used
> Jekyll). It would be nice if you could help me with following questions:
>
> 1. could somebody, please, point me to a tutorial on how to create a
> multilingual site? Like the orgmode.org with EN:FR:JA. Ideally it would
> be if one would have page-aware language switch, i.e. if one is on the
> page orgmode.org/fr/features.html and clicks JA he will be redirected to
> orgmode.org/ja/features.html (and not .../ja/index.html as it is now)...

I don’t know how to that.  You can easily add language buttons to your
documents via :html-preamble (see org-publish-project-alist).  How to
automatically move people to the right side based on their preferences is
another thing.  I know Django supports multilingual pages, so maybe their
documentation discuss this issue on a more technical level.

> 2. how can one create "prettified" links, i.e. /features/ instead
> of /features.html ? Basically during the website generation for the file
> features.org a directory `features` needs to be created and the html
> file placed into `features/index.html` ... Is there a tutorial on how to
> do that?

You make a wrapper around org-html-publish-to-html that creates folders
and from filename and save file as index in the folder.  The wrapper
function is then used as the :publishing-function in
org-publish-project-alist.

Something like this (untested).

(lambda (plist filename pub-dir)
  (let ((dir (make-directory (file-name-as-directory (file-name-base filename))
                             pub-dir)))
    (org-latex-publish-to-html plist filename dir)
    (rename-file (concat dir (file-name-base filename) ".html")
                 (concat dir "index.html"))))


You could also move around your source files before publishing via the
:preparation-function.

> 3. is there a free modern "corporate" style theme for org-mode?

Everything has classes so it’s easy to make a style that suits you.  Just
find the color and font combinations that you like.

There’s an example of a technique I use here:

    https://gitlab.com/pages/org-mode

Rasmus

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