Re: Some hacks on top of org-publish

[Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou <nchatz314@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2024 at 8:47 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
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> Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou <nchatz314@gmail.com> writes:
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> > 3) Source code blocks + colors (server-side; not a .js coloring client-side)
>
> Note that ox-html can fontify src blocks by itself. Via htmlize + CSS styles.
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> > 1) I got colors in source blocks by post-processing with node.js +
> > highlight.js the raw HTML. Is it possible to write my own backend that
> > feeds the source block into my node app?
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> Yes, of course. See my next answers. The whole export proces is hackable
> on multiple levels.
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> > 2) I got several issues with how the org files are exported as HTML,
> > for example I may want to insert an <article> tag, I may want a div
> > around content and a div around nav bar, etc. Not everything can be
> > solved with #+HTML: tags because I don't have precise control of where
> > those go. Can the HTML backend be edited or do I have to write my own
> > backend?
>
> Check out https://orgmode.org/manual/Advanced-Export-Configuration.html
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> > 3) I am very inexperienced with org backends. What good resources are
> > out there for this subject?
>
> See https://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-Export-Backends.html
> Org export backends can use inheritance. So, if you need to re-define a
> part of backend (if filters are not enough), you can always create a
> "subclass" by creating a "derived" backend.

I should probably try to do this, but I got inspired by Worg's website
which does not do any backend hacking as far as I can tell, but
instead puts some javascript to collapse the table of contents. If you
check my blog now, it looks almost OK in mobile phones. I do want to
write the backend stuff, but it feels like such a chore. The
ox-latex.el (which the manual gives as an example of a not-derived
backend) is a bit overengineered for my taste, in the sense that I
need to pay a lot of attention to figure it out.

Do you have a particular backend for me to look at as a recommendation
of an easy source? I don't want it to be derived because I want to
understand the whole process.

Regards,
Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou