… a static site generator using Org Mode files as markup.

Work in progress. Protective eyewear required.

• To provide a Jekyll-like workflow (edit markup files, have them automatically processed into HTML),
• using Org Mode as the markup language,
• using Hiccup for templating, and
• supporting all of
  • my art- and image-heavy pages and image galleries;
  • my math- and code-heavy software posts;
  • my narrative-heavy South Pole blog posts.

I really like writing in Org Mode (a text editing / outlining / To Do-list processing / scheduling / literate programming / … mode for Emacs). The outliner gets out of my way most of the time and lets me move ideas around while they are being formed, and lets me hide the portions that I’m not focusing on at any given time. I can export to a fairly nice looking PDF document in a few keystrokes. I also use the literate programming and LaTeX / math support just about every day.

I.e., why a Clojure app? I find the export tools available for Org Mode are not quite powerful (or fast) enough for a large blog. I got pretty far trying to get the export features to suit, but not far enough – generation of a large site took too long, and customization was too unweildy. In general I much prefer developing software in Clojure than in Emacs Lisp (though admittedly I’m less experienced with the latter).

I used Jekyll for a few years and was somewhat satisfied by it. But it doesn’t support Org Mode, and I am simply not that fond of Ruby and its related ecosystems. Also I have a number of customizations relating to handling images that I’m unlikely to easily get working with Jekyll.

It’s not on Clojars (yet). Check out the project and run it with lein run. The program parses any Org Mode files in the source directory and publishes them in the destination directory (/tmp/blorg). At the moment the source and destination directories are hardcoded, so you’ll have to change them in the code. (That will obviously change soon.)

The parser has a few dozen tests. Run them with lein spec or lein spec -a.

This is a recently-started project and not yet feature-complete. See pending issues, or completed issues.

Copyright (c) 2015 John Jacobsen. MIT license.

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