While drafting a blog post, part of a series of posts intended to be published in the future, I discovered a lack of my tooling in Nikola. When adding mathematical formulas, I realized that there is no default-way of rendering images from those math formulas, and inserting them as image-tags into the html. Instead math formulas are handled via JS, which I try to reduce to an absolute minimum on my site. So I started to implement a rather quick-and-dirty plugin to do exactly this transformation, using latex and dvipng or dvisvgm. Then I come across this blog post where reading about asciidoc written in python and its successor asciidoctor written in ruby supporting different display formats. Ideal for the content I had in mind. So I installed the Nikola plugin asciidoc (which is mostly a wrapper to the asciidoc binary called as a subprocess), via

in my local environment and converted my blogpost(s) first semi-automatically which is, due to the metadata-section from Nikola, not the very best idea and continued manually. After some frustrations with the paths for the latex filter inside asciidoc it was working.

So as a sample of one of the future blogposts here one or rather two math-equations rendered this way:

\[ \begin{array}{c} c = x \land y \\ s = x \oplus y \end{array} \]

Just as side-note: It describes a halfadder.

Edit Improved grammar.