Jekyll for Scientists

Jekyll does a pretty good job getting your blog up and running, but its default settings aren't so great for scientists (LaTeX, anyone?). This project contains a skeleton of my blog with everything you need to get Jekyll running with MathJAX (Javascript LaTeX interpreter), LightBox2 (pretty modals for images), and Twitter Bootstrap.

Setup

1. install pandoc, a markdown converter that works with LaTeX

   $ sudo port install pandoc

At time of writing this fails to install, so go to http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/downloads/list and download a working solution.

2. install ruby dependencies

   $ gem install jekyll pandoc-ruby

3. start up a local server

   $ jekyll --server --auto

4. open up a browser

   $ open locahost:4000