Tufte Hugo Theme

Hugo-Tufte is a minimalist blog-like theme for the static site generator Hugo that attempts to be a faithful implementation of the Tufte-css project. It supports mathematical typesetting via MathJax. By utilizing copious partial templates the theme is largely customizable.

Site Parameters

The site specific parameters that this theme :wrecognizes 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. The theme follows the conventions in [Hugo's MathJax tutorial].
• meta boolean: if true, display page meta-data 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.

• blockquote

  • Description: Wrap text in a blockquote and insert optional cite or footer metadata.
  • Example:

  {{% blockquote cite="www.shawnohare.com" footer="Shawn" %}}
    There is nothing more beautiful than an elegant mathematical proof. 
  {{% /blockquote %}}`
  

• marginnote

  • Description: Wrap text to produce a numberless margin note.
  • Usage: Accepts a required positional argument that is the margin note id. {{% marginnote "<margin note id>"" %}}...{{% /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.
  • Usage: {{< section "<begin || end>" >}} map respectively to <section> and </section> tags.
  • Example: {{< section "begin" >}} inserts a <section> tag, while {{<section "end" >}} inserts the closing </section> 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 "<side note id>"" %}}...{{% /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.