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 <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > 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 <o...@backspaces.net> 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 > >> > > >> > > >> > ============================================================ > >> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > >> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > >> > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > >> > > > > >> ============================================================ > >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > > > -- > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > > Principal, High Performance Coders > > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
