One better than just using Jekyll, today I found a document on Using org to Blog with Jekyll, unfortunately it has a few typos which made getting up to speed with it a pain for me (small amount of knowledge of Jekyll, infinitely small amount of knowledge of Org mode).

The main problems seem to be:

• writing #_BEGIN_HTML instead of #+BEGIN_HTML
• not writing #+END_HTML at all

Then I was hit by having an out-of-date copy of org-mode — and consequently it was ignoring the body-only publishing directive in my \$HOME/.emacs file, for some reason org-mode was installed on the system, but not in the DPKG database. apt-get install org-mode fixed that and now I’ve got version 6.34c.

So far it looks promising, far-less crufty than the mix of muse-mode and pyblosxom that is my current publishing method.

Macro tests: 2010-03-15org-jekyll.org and and 2018-11-21 18:05:16.

Can I get ¼” or € or ™ and a formula $$x=\sqrt{b}$$ to display? Yes I can if I upgrade from org-mode 6.34c that is distributed with lucid ubuntu to 6.35i. 1 & 2

If $$a^2=b$$ and $$b=2$$, then the solution must be either $$a=+\sqrt{2}$$ or $$a=-\sqrt{2}$$.

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## Footnotes

1 [2017-07-30 Sun] moving from Org mode and jekyll to Org mode and hugo and the equations don’t publish as they should – I’ll fix them when I get a #

2 [2018-09-18 Tue] some minor syntax changes and the equations publish again