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Org Mode
40 lines
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Org Mode
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#+TITLE: Introducing ox-coleslaw
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#+DATE: 2015-08-05
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#+COLESLAW_TAGS: meta, ox-coleslaw, emacs, cask, tekuti, projects, org-mode
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I have a big problem: I can't write a blog in anything other than [[http://orgmode.org/][Org
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mode]]. I have another problem: I haven't found a good way to write a
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blog only in Org mode. This always keeps me going back and forth
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between blogging systems. I've used [[http://wingolog.org/projects/tekuti/][tekuti]], [[https://wordpress.org/][WordPress]], and I've tried
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a few others. Currently I'm using [[https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw][Coleslaw]]. I haven't written anything
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lately though because it supports Markdown and HTML and I was getting
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antsy for some Org mode again. So I've been on the lookout for
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something new.
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Well... *I've had enough*. I'm not going away this time. I'm going to
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fix my problems and commit to this system. I picked Coleslaw because
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it's written en Common Lisp and has some interesting features. I'm
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going to write an exporter for org to whatever Coleslaw needs!
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I've known that it's pretty easy to write an exporter for Org mode for
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some time, but I've never actually tried to write one. I modified some
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bits and bobs on [[https://github.com/ryuslash/org-blog][org-blog]], but that didn't really work out. Today
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though, while reading an old(er) post on [[http://endlessparentheses.com/how-i-blog-one-year-of-posts-in-a-single-org-file.html?source=rss][Endless Parentheses]], I ran
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into [[https://github.com/yoshinari-nomura/org-octopress/blob/master/ox-jekyll.el][ox-jekyll]]. Jekyll has a pretty similar page/post definition
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syntax to Coleslaw, so it seemed easy to read what they're doing and
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copy the relevant parts. It's a very small Emacs Lisp file, which made
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it very easy. So congrats to them and the people writing Org mode for
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making some very clear code.
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So I wrote (or copied) [[https://github.com/ryuslash/ox-coleslaw][ox-coleslaw]] based on ox-jekyll. It's slightly
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smaller than ox-jekyll because, frankly, it offers less. I just need a
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simple way to export a =.org= file to a =.post= file, nothing fancy.
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To write posts I will use Org mode. Once ox-coleslaw is loaded I use
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the org export function to export it to an HTML file with the proper
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header. You can also do this non-interactively from, for example, a
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Makefile, but that is a story for another time.
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This document is the first attempt at publishing a blog post using
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ox-coleslaw.
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