Re: Announcing org-jekyll

[Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com>]

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On 1 February 2010 19:14, Juan Reyero <joanmg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 29 January 2010 23:16, Juan Reyero <joanmg@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Full description: http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/
>>> Source code: http://github.com/juanre/org-jekyll
>>
>> I'm not entirely clear on how the org-publish-project-alist relates to
>> org-jekyll and org-jekyll-export-blog?  What do you need to do to set
>> this up, other than annotate headlines with :blog: keywords and :on:
>> properties?
>
> You set it up so that the files that contain blog entries belong to an
> org-publish project, as described for example in
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.php
>
> The idea is that you might want to combine a blog with a bunch of
> org-published files, as I do in http://juanreyero.com and
> http://greaterskies.com, and you shouldn't have to spend too much time
> separating the two things.  So it boils down to defining your
> org-publish-project-alist.  Then you open a file that belongs to the
> project and do org-jekyll-export-blog or
> org-jekyll-export-current-entry, depending on what you need.

Yes, I like this flexibility.

>> I've found that calling org-jekyll-export-blog, seems to do nothing...
>
> It should, if the file from which you are calling is part of an
> org-publish project, and there are entries with the :blog: tag and the
> :on: property.

Ok, it turns out that there were several problems I had...  After some
time in the emacs debugger, it turned out that the default values for
org-jekyll-category and org-jekyll-localize-dir are non-nil... which
was causing the _posts/ directory to be set to a directory that
doesn't exist.  Overriding these to nil fixed the first problem.

The second problem was that my tags and property keys are all in
uppercase, yet org-jekyll only works for lower-case keys.

I seem to be up and running with it for now...  I just need to modify
my setup a bit more to account for the changes... But this definitely
seems a lot less hacky than the happyblogger setup I was playing
with!!

I think setting both of those vars to default to nil would make
sense...  As I'd imagine people would probably want to start with a
minimal config/setup and grow into the more advanced multi-lingual
features you have.

Also it would be nice for org-jekyll-export-blog to fail with an
error, rather than just dying silently.  Alternatively even better
might be for it to construct the _post and category directories it
needs if they don't already exist....

Great work though!!!!  I've been waiting for something like this for
years!!!  (Though I'm also a tiny bit dissapointed that you stole my
march; as I was looking forward to learning a bit more Emacs Lisp and
reworking happyblogger into something like this)....  But again,
thanks a bunch this is a valuable addition to the org community!


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