Jekyll Rendering

Now that you have a fully operational blogging station, you'll need to decide what kind of rendering you want to use. Jekyll comes with some sweet stock rendering using Maruku. If you want somthing more sophisticated, that will cost you another gem. For example, Garry Welding prefers the rdiscount gem which can be easily installed via:

gem install rdiscount

If you get a complaint about permissions or needing to be root, you may want to review my last post how to install ruby and gems for Jekyll.

Then to enable RDiscount, head on over to your _config.yml file and set the markdown field.

markdown: rdiscount

Personally, I'd rather have the option to use LaTex, pronounced, say it with me now Lay-Tek. Maruku has the ability to render LaTex to PNG files using blahtex and dvips. Of course, dvips must be on your path. To install blahtex on your Ubuntu machine with something like version 11ish or greater all one has to do is:

sudo apt-get install blahtexml

I didn't notice the ml on the end and wound up getting set up for an old version of the blahtexml from an Ubuntu PPA. Totally unessecary, but only cost me a few minutes.

But, if you go with Maruku, then your posts may not be rendered as HTML5 complaint. So it looks like I need another path to LaTex rendering...

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