How to use org-mode to write blog

I begin to write blog recently, naturally I choose org-mode to do this
task. However, org-mode export to html with whole page of html tags with
head and body. While writing to blog, we only need the body part. When I
just copy the body part, I loose its format. If I copy the whole html,
blogspot general some unwanted space, title, etc and I also lost title
link. I read w3schools.com about html and css and realized that if I can
change the template of blogstpot.com, add those css, I should be able to
keep the format. Read google’s own online help, and then I changed my
template, done! Only thing left is that I still need manually copy body
part. After a long search, I known that there is a variable
org-export-as-html whose fifth option can be set to body-only
(refer to discuss part in EMACS-FU ). But I known very little about
lisp. A promising setting is from http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/18069

,----
|   (setq html (org-export-region-as-html beg end t 'string))
`----

I tried substituting the string with body-only, but it’s wrong.
Thanks to Tamas K Papp’s blog, who gives the whole solution. The only
thing I didn’t follow his solution is CSS apart for syntax highlight,
since inline-css works for me. If I choose ccs instead of inline-css,
local html will be generated without syntax hight.

So the whole step is

1. Copy CSS part of a org-mode generated html into template of blogspot
   (Only part 1 of CSS mentioned in Tamas K Papp’s blog). The first
   line should be removed, since it cause some problem, especially when
   I use them in wordpress.com, it cause <pre> part not overflow
   (scroll bar not shown when space is not enough), i.e.

   html { font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; }
   

   The location
   is to add CSS is

   <b:skin>
     ....
    * Varaible definitions apart
   
     CSS you added
   
     original CSS setting
     ....
    </b:skin>
   

2. add following line into .emacs file

   (defun org-export-body-as-html ()
   (interactive)
   (org-export-as-html 3 nil nil "blog" t))
   
   (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (local-set-key (quote [?\C-c ?\C-x]) 'org-export-body-as-html)))
   

3. Use C-c C-x to generate body part of the blog
4. Use scribefire to update blog and preview the results. I feel this is
   more convenient than webloger.el. Since webloger.el cannot update
   title and set label, I have to manually change it every time if I use
   this. Need use new version scribefire, old version have bugs, when
   encounter `<’ and `>’ inside <pre> tags, it convert them into `&lt’,
   and ‘&gt’ respectively. While <pre> tags may have other tags inside
   them, especial for color setting <span>.

5. If use blogspot to update blog, in post option part, choose Use br tags. Otherwise, unwanted line breaks will be added.

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