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Then I was hit by having an out-of-date copy of Org mode — and consequently it was ignoring the body-only publishing directive in my $HOME/.emacs file, for some reason Org mode was installed on the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: 2010-03-15_org-jekyll.org and 2021-11-07¹ and 2021-11-07 11:26:05.

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. ² & ³

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

Refs:

• http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/jekyll-sites-made-simple
• http://rfelix.com/2010/01/19/jekyll-extensions-minus-equal-pain/
• search http://www.google.com/search?q=org-mode

Footnotes

¹ [2019-11-28 Thu] the ‘date’ macro no longer exists and has been replaced by an equivalent ’time’ macro.

² [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 #roundtoit

³ [2018-09-18 Tue] some minor syntax changes and the equations publish again