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 katex or MathJax. By utilizing copious partial templates the theme is largely customizable.

• Original repository: shawnohare/hugo-tufte
• First fork: slashformotion/hugo-tufte
• Second fork: This repository
• You're probably looking for loikein/hugo-tufte

Quickstart

Prerequisite: Hugo Extended

You'll need to install Hugo Extended for this theme to test it locally, since this theme uses SCSS.

• On Windows:
  • Using Chocolatey:

    choco install hugo-extended # remember, you might need admin privs

For a new site

# this code is shell-agnostic, and should work in cmd, powershell, bash, zsh....
hugo new site <your-site-name> # create your new site with hugo in your pwd
cd <your-site-name>\themes\    # cd into the themes directory
git clone <this-git-repo>      # HTTPS link @ the top of the page if you've never done this before

Add theme = 'hugo-tufte' to your config.toml to let your site know to actually use this theme, specifically.

Then run hugo server -D and open up localhost:1313/ or wherever it says in Firefox.

Features

Math

Katex or MathJax renders LaTeX written inside of markdown files. LaTeX can be written more or less as normal. Some examples:

• This $\frac{1}{2}$ will be rendered inline.
• 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 aligned environment (align* is not supported by katex). These environments will render provided they are wrapped in <p> 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:

<p>
\begin{aligned}
  e &= (xy)^2  \\
  &=xyxy \implies \\
  y^{-1} &= xyx \implies \\
  y^{-1}x^{-1} &= xy,
\end{aligned}
</p>

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.
• math boolean: Site wide kill switch for Latex support
• katex boolean: if "katex" is set to true katex will be used to render LaTex, if not MathJax will be used instead. (Set to true by default)
• codeBlocksDark boolean: if true, code blocks will use a dark theme.

Socials

You can add links to your social media profile by using thoses parameters:

• github: string
• gitlab: string
• twitter: string
• patreon: string
• youtube: string
• medium: string
• reddit: string
• stackoverflow: string
• instagram: string
• mastodon: string
• orcid: string
• google_scholar: string

Please see exampleSite/config.toml to see the full implementation with exemples.

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 project.

• blockquote

  • Description: Wrap text in a blockquote and insert optional cite or footer metadata.
  • Usage: Accepts the named parameters cite and footer.
  • Example:

  {{< 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 <div class="my-class"> tag, while {{<div "end" >}} inserts the closing </div> 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, link. 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" link='https://www.google.com' >}}
  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: {{< marginnote >}}...{{< /marginnote >}}
  • Example:

  {{< marginnote >}}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 <section class="my-class"> tag, while {{<section "end" >}} inserts the closing </section> tag.

• sidenote

  • Description: Wrap text to produce an automatically numbered sidenote.
  • Usage: identical to marginnote {{< sidenote >}}...{{< /sidenote >}}
  • Example:

  {{< sidenote >}}Some sidenote{{< /sidenote >}}