Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help starting a Haskell blog

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Dan Piponi wrote:

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

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Could you share your experiences with me about starting a blog? BTW: I'm on Windows.

I've found it hard work to post a mixture of English, Mathematics and Haskell. Neither of the most popular blogging web sites are very helpful in this regard: wordpress.com and blogger.com. I did write a little Haskell program to do some markup suitable for blogger.com but it's very limited for embedding mathematics, knowing only a handful of TeX commands, and doesn't play well with blogger's system for uploading images. Wordpress looked good at first but I found all kinds of problems with it.

Gitit handles simple TeX fairly well; and it can even compile the TeX to MathML so one doesn't need JsMath to display the TeX.

I guess I should force myself to catch up with the 21st century and learn how to write code to talk directly to these web sites, but I find it hard to motivate myself to be interested in writing code for all that HTML/XML/ATOM/<Insert your favourite acronym here> stuff. (I think my day job is one of the few remaining software jobs that hasn't been XMLified.)

But I've seen lots of nice Haskell blogs with embedded mathematics so there must be good solutions out there. What are they?

What I'd really like is to blog in PDF.

Gitit can export pages to LaTeX, thanks to pandoc, which is easy to turn into PDFs. :) -- gwern