BlOgTeX

A blog that compiles LaTeX documents to HTML and creates an index in reverse-chronological order

Dependencies

• pandoc

How To Use

Edit the variables at the top of the script to point to your source .tex files, then where you want to output the final compiled blog. Note that the destination directory WILL BE WIPED UPON INVOKING THE SCRIPT. This is for cleanliness purposes.

You will need to have a header.html file in your $SOURCE directory. This is so when the script gets run and it gets the title, date, and filename of each file and creates an index, there is actually something doing things like creating a title for the page. Take a look at my example header.html so you can see what is required.

You will also need a header.xml file in your $SOURCE directory. This should include everything that makes up the RSS feed aside from the actual contents. Once again, you can take a look at my example header.xml.

From there, all you need to do is populate the $SOURCE directory with .tex articles, then run ./compile.sh. I've included a template file at example.tex.

Formatting .tex files

The only thing to keep in mind is that you need to use MM/DD/YYYY format for dates in the .tex files. When outputted to the RSS, they turn into Day, DD Mon YYYY for compatibility. If you have any issues with this, make an Issue and I'll make some sort of flag to change between formats.

Things That Are Supported

• Links
• Bold and Italic text
• Images
  • Resize using \includegraphics[height=50px,keepaspectratio]{image} You can use either cm or px for the height. You can also use width, but I hate using it and do not recommend it.
• Math
  • The math is generated using latex.codecogs.com which by default makes all of the math black. You can work around this by importing \usepackage{xcolor}, then using the \color{} tag (make sure to put a color between those {curly brackets}) to change it to a color that is readable. This was releavnt to me because the background of my blog is black, which made the math impossible to read.
  • Also, the reason that the math is done through CodeCogs is because a lot of the rendering of math simply cannot be done with plain HTML (see: fractions, sqrt, etc.) but CodeCogs provides a super quick way to do it that is automatically handled by the script, so your math equations will just werk.
• Sections, subsections, etc.
• Code syntax highlighting with \usepackage{minted}

To-do

• Fix sorting by date in index
• Add RSS feed functionality