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BlogMax extends the power of Emacs to ease the maintenance of a
weblog, a frequently updated web site containing links and commentary.
The name BlogMax is a combination of Blog and Emacs with a curtsy
in the general direction of
NewsMax. If you don't use Emacs, but you do a blog,
it might be worth your while to learn Emacs just so you can use
BlogMax. And yes, I sometimes have other illusions of grandeur.
BlogMax is loosely patterned after Dave Winer's Manila. My
weblog, End the War on Freedom, started life as a
Manila site at EditThisPage.com. Many thanks to Dave and
company for creating Manila and making it available to the world via
EditThisPage.com and other sites.
I have tested BlogMax in Emacs 20.3.1 on Windoze, a couple of Emacs
versions on a couple of Linux installations, and XEmacs 21.1 on RedHat
7.1 (VMWare rocks!). If you fix
problems with it or add neat new features, send them on over and I'll
consider adding them (in my copious spare time).
BlogMax turns stylized HTML stored in text files into complete
HTML. The following conversions are provided:
- Templates are wrapped around the text. These usually provide the
basic starting and ending HTML tags
(
<html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>),
and the basic look of your site. Your text files usually fill in the
body. See the Templates page for more
details.
- Blank lines are turned into paragraph tags
(
<p>).
- A number of macros are provided to make typing easier or do useful
computations. One macro,
{@shortcut} provides for
pasting in of shortcuts that are remembered in a file. For example, I
typed "{@manila}" to create this Manila
link. Shortcuts are usually used to give a short name to a link, but
they can be used to abbreviate any text you want. Macros are expanded
recursively, so a shortcut can include a macro or another
shortcut. See the
Macros page for more details.
- It's easy to create a page for each day and link them together
via a calendar. You can publish the last N day's pages on your site's
index page.
- There is a Weblog mode, based on HTML mode, that is automatically
enabled when you open a text file in your weblog's directory or one of
its subdirectories. Saving a text page with
C-x C-s
automatically generates its HTML. There are other keys in Weblog mode
to simplify other operations, for example C-x C-i creates
an index page, an RSS file, and optionally regenerates all of this
month's pages (to update their calendars to include the new day). See
the
Weblog mode page for more details.
- I haven't yet made email or web page addresses automagically turn
into links to themselves. Manila does this, but I don't use it often
enough to spend the effort. If you really want it, do it, and I'll
likely include your code.
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