Okay, so the scene is a bit more complex than I had remembered. Everything’s available on Youtube these days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01NHcTM5IA4
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> wrote: > Hey Russell, in case it wasn’t clear, please understand that I was > making a joke with a (probably overly obscured) compliment. I very > much admire folks who use manual tools like LaTeX and Emacs, and also > like a lot of what I know of Australian culture. Although “Crocodile > Dundee” was an absurd stereotype of that culture, a lot of us > Americans relate to the brash, no-BS character of that stereotype. And > in case you didn’t see the movie, my comment referred to a scene where > some American gang punk pulls a switchblade knife and threatens Dundee > with it. Dundee says “Knife?”, pulls out a huge Bowie knife, holds it > up, and says in that stereotyped accent, “Now, *that’s* a knife!”. > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: >> 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 ============================================================ 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
