Small tutorial how to include external code snippets in your Hakyll blog

[tobi....@googlemail.com]

Hi everyone

Recently I switched my static site generator from Pelican to Hakyll.

With Pelican I used a plugin to include external code snippets in my blog posts, that were also properly syntax highlighted.

I really liked the functionality and also wanted to stay backwards compatible to my already existing files.

I wrote a small blog post describing two possible solutions to achieve this in Hakyll. My favored solution is to use fenced divs offered by Pandoc's markdown.

I hope this can be of some help to others with similar needs.

Best regards

Tobias

[Ashton Charbonneau]

Thanks Tobias! I wanted to do something similar, and came across pandoc-include-code. If you don't dislike the semantics, it's easy to add to a codebase and it allows including only specific lines, arbitrary paths, and de-indenting.

Ashton