# Tufte Hugo Theme Hugo-Tufte is a minimalist blog-like theme for the [static site generator Hugo](https://gohugo.io) that attempts to be a faithful implementation of the [Tufte-css](https://githubcom/edwardtufte/tufte-css) project. It supports mathematical typesetting via [MathJax](https://www.mathjax.org). By utilizing copious partial templates the theme is largely customizable. ## Math Mathjax renders LaTeX written inside of markdown files. LaTeX can be written more or less as normal, but inline and display environments that start with `\` must be escaped. Some examples: - `This $\LaTeX$ will be rendered inline.` - `This \\(\LaTeX\\) will be rendered inline.` - `A simple displayed equation: $$f(x, y) := e^{x^2 - y^2}.$$` - `A simple displayed equation: \\[f(x, y) := e^{x^2 - y^2}.\\]` There currently seems to be some weirdness with other environments, such as the `align` environment. These environments will render provided they are wrapped in `

` tags and blank lines. The snippet below should render correctly. ``` Let $G$ be a finite group with exponent $2$. Then every element is an involution, hence for any $x$, $y$ in $G$ we have:

\begin{align*} e &= (xy)^2 \\ &=xyxy \implies \\ y^{-1} &= xyx \implies \\ y^{-1}x^{-1} &= xy, \end{align*}

establishing that $G$ is abelian. ``` ## Site Parameters The site specific parameters that this theme recognizes are: - `subtitle` string: This is displayed under the main title. - `showPoweredBy` boolean: if true, display a shoutout to Hugo and this theme. - `copyrightHolder` string: Inserts the value in the default copyright notice. - `copyright` string: Custom copyright notice. ## Page Parameters - `hideDate` boolean: if true, do not display a page date. When `meta` is set to true, `hideDate` takes greater precedence. - `hideReadTime` boolean: if true, do not display the page's reading time estimate. When `meta` is set to true, `hideReadTime` takes greater precedence. - `math` boolean: if true, try to render the page's LaTeX code using MatheJax. - `meta` boolean: if true, display page metadata such as author, date, categories provided these page parameters exist and are not overridden. Content in the `/post` directory, (i.e., pages of type "post") ignore this parameter. - `toc` boolean: if true, display the table of contents for the page. ## Shortcodes This theme provides the following shortcodes in an attempt to completely support all the features present in the [Tufte-css](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css) project. - `blockquote` - **Description**: Wrap text in a blockquote and insert optional `cite` or `footer` metadata. - **Usage**: Accepts the named parameters `cite` and `footer`. - **Example**: ```html {{% blockquote cite="www.shawnohare.com" footer="Shawn" %}} There is nothing more beautiful than an elegant mathematical proof. {{% /blockquote %}}` ``` - `div` - **Description**: This shortcode is provided as a work-around for wrapping complex blocks of markdown in div tags. The wrapped text can include other shortcodes - **Usage**: Identical to the `section` shortcode. Accepts the style parameters `class` and `id`. If only the positional argument `"end"` is passed, a closing tag will be inserted. - **Example**: `{{< div class="my-class" >}}` inserts a `
` tag, while `{{
}}` inserts the closing `
` tag. - `epigraph` - **Description**: Create an epigraph with the wrapped text. - **Usage**: To include a footer with source attribution, pass in the optional named parameters `pre`, `cite`, `post`. These parameters make no styling assumptions, so spacing is important. A more compactly styled epigraph will be used if the `type` parameter is set to `compact`. - **Example**: ``` {{% epigraph pre="Author Writer, " cite="Math is Fun" %}} This is an example of an epigraph with some math \\( \mathbb N \subseteq \mathbb R \\) to start the beginning of a section. {{% /epigraph %}} ``` - `marginnote` - **Description**: Wrap text to produce a numberless margin note. - Usage: Accepts a required positional argument that is the margin note id. `{{% marginnote """ %}}...{{% /marginnote %}}` - **Example**: `{{% marginnote "mn-example" %}}Some marginnote{{% /marginnote%}}` - `section` - **Description**: This shortcode is provided as a work-around for wrapping complex blocks of markdown in section tags. The wrapped text can include other shortcodes - **Usage**: Accepts the style parameters `class` and `id`. If only the positional argument `"end"` is passed, a closing tag will be inserted. - **Example**: `{{< section class="my-class" >}}` inserts a `
` tag, while `{{
}}` inserts the closing `
` tag. - `sidenote` - **Description**: Wrap text to produce an automatically numbered sidenote. - **Usage**: identical to `marginnote`. Accepts a required positional argument that is the side note id. `{{% sidenote """ %}}...{{% /sidenote %}}` - **Example**: `{{% sidenote "sn-example" %}}Some sidenote{{% /sidenote %}}` ## Templates TODO - [ ] Describe the role of each template file, as commenting within the files themselves seems to break the templates.