tufte-pandoc-jekyll

This is a Jekyll theme for using Tufte CSS alongside pandoc-sidenote. It's based off of

Tufte CSS for the original CSS file
Tufte Pandoc CSS uses Markdown in conjunction with Tufte CSS

You may ask, "What's the difference between this and tufte-jekyll?"

Using pandoc-sidenote, we don't have to use {% sidenote %}...{% sidenote %} and can instead just use [^1] like normal Pandoc markdown.

For a demo, see https://jez.io/talks/.

Installation

There are two external dependencies in order to use this theme. You can install them through your package manager (like apt-get or brew):

# EXAMPLE: This is for macOS. Change if you're on Linux.
# Note: you must have pandoc version 2.0 or greater
brew install pandoc
brew install jez/formulae/pandoc-sidenote

Next, add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "tufte-pandoc-jekyll"

And add these lines to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: tufte-pandoc-jekyll

gems:
  - jekyll-pandoc

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install tufte-pandoc-jekyll

Usage

Note: while tufte-pandoc-css optionally includes the Solarized Light colorscheme, it's enabled by default here, with no easy way to opt-out. This is probably fine for you, but if it's not, feel free to make a PR that allows opting out.

Variables

The following variables are used by this theme.

site.title
site.author
- Note that this theme currently only supports one author.
site.baseurl
- Make sure you don't have a trailing slash here
site.header_includes
page.header_includes
- You can use these to include raw HTML in the <head>
site.include_after
page.include_after
- You can use these to include raw HTML in the <body> before the content
site.include_before
page.include_before
- You can use these to include raw HTML in the <body> after the content
page.layout
- Pick one of index, page, or post
- index won't have a "Return home" link at the bottom of the page
page.title
page.subtitle
page.date
page.keywords
page.math
- If true, we'll include KaTeX for displaying math formulas

`_config.yml`

You'll need to update your _config.yml to compile the site using Pandoc. Make sure you've followed the installation instructions.

gems:
  - jekyll-pandoc

markdown: Pandoc
pandoc:
  extensions:
    - section-divs
    - from: 'markdown+tex_math_single_backslash'
    - filter: 'pandoc-sidenote'

Optional: remove section-divs if you want to insert <section> tags manually.

Developing

To make a release:

vim tufte-pandoc-jekyll.gemspec
git commit tufte-pandoc-jekyll.gemspec -m 'Bump version'
git tag "$version"
git push --tags origin master
gem build tufte-pandoc-jekyll.gemspec
gem push "tufte-pandoc-jekyll-$version.gem"