Re: apache2 does not display blosxom blog (resolved)
* Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> [080331 08:56]:
> On Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 00:37:14 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> > Regarding alternatives to Blosxom: Blosxom is written in Perl. A
> > clone (which since has taken on a life of its own) is Pyblosxom, which
> > is written in Python. Both are CGI scripts.
>
> If you're not accepting comments, or not immediately at least,
> you might prefer something which outputs static HTML to your
> site, instead of a CGI.
>
> For example ikiwiki can do this, or my 'chronicle' package.
I am aware that Blosxom/Pyblosxom can do static output, but I don't
understand the implications of static versus dynamic.
This morning it occurred to me that a major pain in blogging is the
necessity of (1) switching between typesetter's quotation marks and
typewriter-style quotation marks and (2) removing embedded linefeeds
before handing off the blog to WordPress. The switching comes about
because I prefer to compose in LaTeX mode in XEmacs -- the mode I use
for articles for the web site. (I could customize LaTeX text mode,
but I haven't had the time.)
And it also occurred to me that I already am using HeVeA to
automatically provide a HTML version of each website article. On my
web site, the articles (which often run twenty pages and have complex
formatting, including footnotes) are posted in PDF format to
facilitate printing. But requests from visually-impaired visitors
prompted me to add an HTML of each article, so that the visitor can
use his browser to enlarge the text.
Now, Blosxom was intended to serve posts with HTML formatting
(typically rudimentary and hand-coded). With about a day's effort, I
can put together a pair of LaTeX and HeVeA class definitions suitable
for the blog. By using LaTeX and xdvi, I can view a typeset version
of the blog post as I compose it. And HeVeA automatically generates
the HTML version of the post for Blosxom to serve, taking care of the
switch from typesetter quotation marks to typewriter-style quotation
marks. Like LaTeX, HeVeA doesn't mind embedded linefeeds.
The beauty of this approach is that, if I subsequently decide to
expand a blog post into a web site article, no alterations are
required. I simply lift the text #from the blog template and drop it
into an article template. Moreover, no alteration of formatting is
necessary for headings and for items such as bulleted or numbered
lists. Finally, virtually no additional effort or complexity, I can
create a PDF version of each blog post, which solves the problem of
printing out blog posts (a matter to which few blog authors give
consideration).
RLH
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