Is there a way to make github pages support org-mode?

Question

I like authoring in org-mode much better than in markdown. It offers much more features such as LaTeX support, spreadsheet-like table support , outline view etc.

I like github pages because it supports jekyll based static sites. So I don't have to generate/publish my blog posts from markdown/org-mode into html. I also don't have to maintain two version controlled repositories : one is generated static html/css for github pages, the other is the markdown/org-mode source.

Currently, even though github does support org-mode source through org-ruby, github pages doesn't.

So I was wondering if there is a way to make github pages support org-mode natively, possibly through the same org-ruby, so that I can just have one jekyll based github pages repository, and author blogs in org-mode in it without publishing/generating htmls, just like I can in markdown.

Answer 1

You don't have to maintain two separate repositories, you can always use two branches in the same repository. One with the org-mode text and scripts to convert, the other with the static html that is published in Jekyll.

As shown in how do I change markdown mode to org-mode in Jekyll config.yaml?, Jekyll does not natively support org-mode