http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Static-Site-Generator-tp7586757p7586762.html
making a joke with a (probably overly obscured) compliment. I very
like a lot of what I know of Australian culture. Although “Crocodile
Americans relate to the brash, no-BS character of that stereotype. And
with it. Dundee says “Knife?”, pulls out a huge Bowie knife, holds it
> It's odd. I've been building websites in LaTeX for more than 20 years
> now. Much of what passes for modern (eg markdown, CMSes, FrontPage and so on)
> just seem to be reinvented wheels, poorly implemented.
>
> Having chosen my horse, and invested heavily in it, LaTeX just keeps
> delivering. Such as producing full colour overhead transparencies
> years before Power Point became available. Such as the afore mentioned
> website generation. And of course, it excels in what it was originally
> designed for, producing beautiful books.
>
> Anyway, I'm sure its not everybody's cup of tea.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 08:15:57PM -0500, Gary Schiltz wrote:
>> Do websites in LaTeX? Wow!
>>
>> (with my apologies, and my thickest, faux-Aussie Paul Hogan accent)
>>
>> “Geek??? Now, *that’s* a geek!"
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Russell Standish <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> > Probably not what you want, but I author all my websites in LaTeX, and
>> > use a combination of LaTeX2HTML and Makefiles to publish the site. I
>> > use subversion or git to do content management. You could also use
>> > latexml, which provides a slightly more modern output, but I like
>> > LaTex2HTML because its basically a bunch of perl scripts that are
>> > eminenently hackable.
>> >
>> > Great for static websites, with all the added goodness of LaTeX (which
>> > is a superior markup language for most purposes than Markdown).
>> >
>> > Its also fairly easy to embed PHP and Javascript code directly into
>> > the LaTeX source files too, so dynamic websites are also possible, but
>> > with LaTeX macros, and perl scriptability, a lot can be done statically.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 04:16:47PM -0600, Robert Wall wrote:
>> >> Hi Owen, et al.,
>> >>
>> >> You might also try this nearly-free ($17)
>> >> <
https://sites.fastspring.com/openwe/instant/kirby2-personal>,
>> >> well-supported <
http://getkirby.com/support>, database-free CMS
>> >> <
http://web.appstorm.net/reviews/web-dev/kirby-the-flat-file-cms-thatll-make-you-rethink-content-management/>
>> >> called Kirby <
http://getkirby.com/>. It is file-based and very easy to
>> >> implement just about anything you want to do on an individual personal
>> >> website. You can also experiment locally with Kirby (without a host) on
>> >> MAMP, XAMPP and PHP's built-in server for local installations.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Robert Wall
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Owen Densmore <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Are any of us using a static site generator? Here's a list:
>> >> >
https://www.staticgen.com/>> >> > Basically it gets rid of the need for a Content Management System,
>> >> > compiling the site from Markdown and html templates.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm thinking of doing this, my old ISP died and it would be a good time
>> >> > for a change.
>> >> >
>> >> > -- Owen
>> >> >
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