which of the many .el's is best for (simple?) html, etc?

which of the many .el's is best for (simple?) html, etc?

[David Combs]

Here's the page in emacswiki that lists the various
emacs-packages that pertain to creating web-pages. 

Which are your favorites?  (Why?)

Which are capable and yet easy to learn?

THANKS!

David


Here's that category-page (via lynx):



   #[1]Emacs Wiki with page content [2]Emacs Wiki with page content and
   diff [3]Emacs Wiki including minor differences

   [4][Home] [5]SiteMap [6]Search [7]ElispArea [8]HowTo [9]RecentChanges
   [10]News [11]Problems [12]Suggestions

   Search: [13]____________________

[14]CategoryHypermedia

   Click on the title to list all pages in the hypermedia category.

   Examples:
     * [15]CategoryWebBrowser - Browsing in Emacs, interacting with
       external web browsers.
     * [16]BrowseURN - Resolving URNs with Emacs.
     * [17]EevMode - E-script environment, the ULTIMATE hyperlink and
       memo system.
     * [18]LangHelp - Integrated help system in [19]EmacsRuby.
     * [20]BookMarks - Remember places in files.
     * [21]CascadingStyleSheetMode - Simple mode for editing CSS style
       sheets.
     * [22]InfoMode - `Info', the hypertext documentation system in
       Emacs, was one of the first online help systems.
     * [23]Synonyms - Browse a hyperlinked thesaurus. Use any
       comma-separated values (CSV) file as a hyperlinked document,
       without writing any code.
     * [24]HtmlAccent - Replaces special char by their html
       representation.
     * [25]HtmlMode - Editing HTML with Emacs.
          + [26]HtmlHelperMode - HTML editing mode with more features.
     * [27]NxhtmlMode - Editing XHTML files. Based on [28]NxmlMode, but
       with enhanced completion for XHTML and support for multiple major
       modes ([29]MuMaMo).
     * [30]AtomBlogger - Creating/Editting Blogger posts.
     * [31]EmacsMuse - Emacs Muse is a project-based authoring and
       publishing environment for Emacs. It simplifies the process of
       writings documents and publishing them to various output formats.
     * [32]EmacsAtomApi - Editing blog posts, and even writing them in
       [33]EmacsMuse.
     * [34]WikiModeDiscussion - Comparing emacs-wiki.el and wiki.el
       (which see).
          + [35]WikiMode - wiki.el, the original mode to edit and
            navigate files with wiki syntax, and to translate these into
            static HTML pages.
          + [36]OddmuseMode - A mode for editing pages in an [37]OddMuse
            Wiki, including the [38]EmacsWiki.
          + [39]PlannerMode (a PIM) - extending [40]EmacsMuse with day
            pages, diary, appointments, todo, etc.
          + [41]mediawiki.el - Online edit and save wiki files on a
            mediawiki server.
     * [42]MultiLingualHyperTextLibraries
     * [43]SaveAsHtml, [44]HtmlFontify - Save files in HTML format.
     * [45]HtmlLite - Construct html pages with sexps.
     * [46]HttpServer
          + [47]EmacsHttpd - HTTP server embedded in the Emacs.
          + [48]ElServ - HTTP server which runs on Emacs.
          + Phase - [49]phase.el, a development server supporting CGI
            and embedded Emacs Lisp.
     * [50]WebBot - Framework for automatic text substitution if you
       load and save a file.
     * [51]LinkdMode - A system for recognizing special s-expressions in
       all kinds of text files, and causing these "lisp hot spots" to
       become interactive
     ________________________________________________________________

Re: which of the many .el's is best for (simple?) html, etc?

[Dmitri Minaev]

On 29 Sep 2007 01:14:55 -0400, David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
> Here's the page in emacswiki that lists the various
> emacs-packages that pertain to creating web-pages.
>
> Which are your favorites?  (Why?)
>
> Which are capable and yet easy to learn?

I use html-helper-mode. Other modes may be better, but I got used to
this one :). It is simple and has an extensive list of keyboard
accelerators.

-- 
With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev

Russian history blog: http://minaev.blogspot.com

Re: which of the many .el's is best for (simple?) html, etc?

[Tim X]

"Dmitri Minaev" <minaev@gmail.com> writes:

> On 29 Sep 2007 01:14:55 -0400, David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
>> Here's the page in emacswiki that lists the various
>> emacs-packages that pertain to creating web-pages.
>>
>> Which are your favorites?  (Why?)
>>
>> Which are capable and yet easy to learn?
>
> I use html-helper-mode. Other modes may be better, but I got used to
> this one :). It is simple and has an extensive list of keyboard
> accelerators.

A lot depends on how sophisticated your web pages need to be (do they use
scripting, advanced css etc). For basic pages, I just love muse-mode. I've
customized the headers/preamble etc and now have really simple muse pages
which are automatically published when I make changes. Works really well
for fairly striaght-forward pages and I can always generate PDF,
PostScript, Bloxsome, texinfo, tex, latex etc from the same sources.

Muse uses a simple, but quite powerful wiki like markup and has support for
tables, footnotes, <pre> tags etc.

Tim


-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Re: which of the many .el's is best for (simple?) html, etc?

[Dmitri Minaev]

On 10/2/07, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> A lot depends on how sophisticated your web pages need to be (do they use
> scripting, advanced css etc). For basic pages, I just love muse-mode. I've
> customized the headers/preamble etc and now have really simple muse pages
> which are automatically published when I make changes.

Besides Muse [1], there are some other modes based on wiki-like
formatted plain text and able to generate html pages: Org-mode [2],
BHL [3], emacs-wiki and some others [4].

However, I couldn't make any of them to generate div-based html
without getting too deep into the sources. Does anyone know a
solution?



[1] http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html
[2] http://orgmode.org/
[3] http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/bhl/
[4] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiModeDiscussion

-- 
With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev

Russian history blog: http://minaev.blogspot.com

Re: which of the many .el's is best for (simple?) html, etc?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Combs wrote:
> Here's the page in emacswiki that lists the various
> emacs-packages that pertain to creating web-pages. 
> 
> Which are your favorites?  (Why?)
> 
> Which are capable and yet easy to learn?
> 
> THANKS!
> 
> David
> 
> 
> Here's that category-page (via lynx):
> 
> 
> 
>    #[1]Emacs Wiki with page content [2]Emacs Wiki with page content and
>    diff [3]Emacs Wiki including minor differences
> 
>    [4][Home] [5]SiteMap [6]Search [7]ElispArea [8]HowTo [9]RecentChanges
>    [10]News [11]Problems [12]Suggestions
> 
>    Search: [13]____________________
> 
> [14]CategoryHypermedia
...
>      * [27]NxhtmlMode - Editing XHTML files. Based on [28]NxmlMode, but
>        with enhanced completion for XHTML and support for multiple major
>        modes ([29]MuMaMo).

Since no one else mention it I speak for nXhtml. It uses the powerful 
nXml emacs package that makes it easy to write correct html code 
(completion, error detecting). The web pages contains more information.

I have tried to make this easy for both a beginner and a power-user. If 
you try it I would be glad for some feedback.

You need Emacs 22 to use it. (Which of the other modes/packages on that 
page above works in Emacs 22?)