Org mode and hakyll

Introduction

Since adopting Emacs I've begun using org mode extensively for note-taking and personal organization. It's a natural choice for outlining an article or blog post, and what's more, Hakyll (using Pandoc) will compile org files just as readily as it will markdown–no configuration required.

Features

Org markup is too rich to be completely converted to html, but a respectable subset is. Simple things like bold, underline and italic are of course supported. Here are some other examples:

Subheadings

Pandoc will support up to sub-sub-headings, but no more.

Subsubheading one

He doesn't have much to say.

Subsubheading two

Lists

This is an unordered list:

this is a list
another element
another element

Ordered lists are also handled properly:

First
Second
Third

It also supports this format with items and inset information underneath:

Some Item: Information abouth this item is expanded upon.
Other Item: Here is some other information relating to the second item.

Source

Wouldn't it be interesting to see some source? You can do inline code echo "like this", and also separate code blocks:

factorial :: Int -> Int
factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)

Org mode is smart enough to correctly highlight the code-block in org-mode itself, so you don't publish embarassing typos. Just one more thing to be impressed by.

Quote

This is a quote:

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler —Albert Einstein

Table

My CSS may not do this justice, but this a proper table.

A	B	Long C Column	D
1	2	3	4
10	20	30	40

I remember back in the day when you would create your whole page layout with these bad boys. Then these upstarts named "divs" came along…

In sum

Org mode is no more convenient to write than markdown; it's edge is that it allows you to write a rough sketch and then slowly flesh it out into a finished article. Anything that lowers the barrier to producing finished articles is valueable in my estimation.