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Apr 30, 2023

My workflow is nascent, but this is the snippet that allowed me to drop that last Mathematica notebook into my site template with no modifications:

Export["body.html", EvaluationNotebook[], "HTML",
 "CSS" -> None,
 "FullDocument" -> False,
 "GraphicsOutput" -> "PNG",
 "ConversionRules" -> {
   "Title" -> {"<h1>", "</h1>"},
   "Section" -> {"<h2>", "</h2>"},
   "Subsection" -> {"<h3>", "</h3>"},
   "Text" -> {"<p>", "</p>"},
   "Input" -> {"<pre>", "</pre>"},
   "Item" -> {"<li>", "</li>"}
   }]

I follow that up with cat head.html body.html tail.html > index.html.

By default, Mathematica turns all those cell types into <p> with classes like “Title” and “Section”, but once I switched to the semantic equivalents, they just worked.

I still haven’t figured out how I want to do margin notes, or how to wrap lists in <ol> or <ul>, or how to embed text versions of all the inputs that it renders as PNG—but in this case I felt that perfect was the enemy of good!