Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Muse questions from a complete newbie

[John Sullivan]

Salim Qadri <address@hidden> writes:

> John Sullivan <john <at> wjsullivan.net> writes:
>
>> 
>> Just type your journal entry using muse markup, then publish it using the
>> 'journal-html' or 'journal-xhtml' style. There is no need for the buffer to 
>> be
>> in anything but journal-mode. 
>> 
>> The idea of muse is that you use one mode for doing all of your writing, and
>> then you can publish it in a variety of styles. Maybe the problem is that you
>> don't know how to choose which publishing style you want to use?
>> 
>
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to respond to my newbie question. The problem was
> exactly as you'd indicated in that I could not figure out how to use the
> journal-html style. I did the following in my .emacs to allow the journal
> entries to show as a journal. 
>
> (require 'muse-journal)
> (:base "journal-html" :path "/var/www/journal")
>

That's not quite right. This (:base "journal-html" :path "/var/www/journal")
needs to be a part of your muse-project-alist. Do you have a muse-project-alist
in your .emacs? What does it look like?

If you don't have one, please see section 6 of the manual, Creating and
Managing Muse Projects.

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