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# Hugo Book Theme
+
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/alex-shpak/hugo-book.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/alex-shpak/hugo-book)
+
### [Hugo](https://gohugo.io) documentation theme as simple as plain book
![Screenshot](https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book/blob/master/images/screenshot.png)
-
## Features
-* Clean simple design
-* Mobile friendly
-* Customisable
-* Designed to not interfere with other layouts
-* Zero initial configuration
+- Clean simple design
+- Mobile friendly
+- Customisable
+- Designed to not interfere with other layouts
+- Zero initial configuration
## Requirements
-* Hugo 0.48 or higher
-* Hugo extended version, read more [here](https://gohugo.io/news/0.43-relnotes/)
+- Hugo 0.48 or higher
+- Hugo extended version, read more [here](https://gohugo.io/news/0.43-relnotes/)
## Installation
+
Navigate to your hugo project root and run:
+
```
git submodule add https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book themes/book
```
Then run hugo (or set `theme: book` in configuration file)
+
```
hugo server --minify --theme book
```
### Creating site from scratch
+
Below is example how to create new site from scratch
+
```sh
hugo new site mydocs; cd mydocs
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book themes/book
cp -R themes/book/exampleSite/content .
```
+
```sh
hugo server --minify --theme book
```
## Menu
+
### File tree menu (default)
+
By default theme will render pages from `content/docs` section as menu in a tree structure.
You can set `title` and `weight` in front matter of pages to adjust order and titles in menu.
-
### Leaf bundle menu
-You can also use leaf bundle and content of it's `index.md` as
+
+You can also use leaf bundle and content of it's `index.md` as
menu.
Given you have this file structure
+
```
├── content
│ ├── docs
@@ -63,10 +73,11 @@ Given you have this file structure
```
Create file `content/docs/menu/index.md` with content
+
```md
----
-headless: true
----
++++
+headless = true
++++
- [Book Example](/docs/)
- [Page One](/docs/page-one)
@@ -74,121 +85,128 @@ headless: true
- [Blog](/posts)
```
-And Enable it by settings `BookMenuBundle: /docs/menu` in Site configuration
+And Enable it by settings `BookMenuBundle: /menu` in Site configuration
- [Example menu](https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book/blob/master/exampleSite/content/menu/index.md)
- [Example config file](https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book/blob/master/exampleSite/config.yml)
- [Leaf bundles](https://gohugo.io/content-management/page-bundles/)
-
## Blog
-Simple blog supported for section `posts`
+Simple blog supported for section `posts`
## Configuration
+
### Site Configuration
-There are few configuration options you can add to your `config.yml|json|toml` file
-```yaml
+
+There are few configuration options you can add to your `config.yml|json|toml` file.
+See `yaml` example [here](https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book/blob/master/exampleSite/config.yml)
+
+```toml
# (Optional) Set this to true if you use capital letters in file names
-disablePathToLower: true
+disablePathToLower = true
# (Optional) Set this to true to enable 'Last Modified by' date and git author
# information on 'doc' type pages.
-enableGitInfo: true
+enableGitInfo = true
# (Warnings) Theme is intended for documentation use, there for it doesn't render taxonomy.
# You can hide related warning with config below
-disableKinds: ["taxonomy", "taxonomyTerm"]
+disableKinds = ["taxonomy", "taxonomyTerm"]
-params:
- # (Optional, default true) Show or hide table of contents globally
- # You can also specify this parameter per page in front matter
- BookShowToC: true
+[params]
+# (Optional, default true) Show or hide table of contents globally
+# You can also specify this parameter per page in front matter
+BookShowToC = true
- # (Optional, default none) Set leaf bundle to render as side menu
- # When not specified file structure and weights will be used
- BookMenuBundle: /menu
+# (Optional, default none) Set leaf bundle to render as side menu
+# When not specified file structure and weights will be used
+BookMenuBundle = /menu
- # (Optional, default docs) Specify section of content to render as menu
- # You can also set value to "*" to render all sections to menu
- BookSection: docs
+# (Optional, default docs) Specify section of content to render as menu
+# You can also set value to "*" to render all sections to menu
+BookSection = docs
- # (Optional) This value is duplicate of $link-color for making active link highlight in menu bundle mode
- # BookMenuBundleActiveLinkColor: \#004ed0
+# (Optional) This value is duplicate of $link-color for making active link highlight in menu bundle mode
+# BookMenuBundleActiveLinkColor = \#004ed0
- # (Optional, default false) Include JS scripts in pages. Disabled by default.
- # - Keep side menu on same scroll position during navigation
- BookEnableJS: true
+# (Optional, default false) Include JS scripts in pages. Disabled by default.
+# - Keep side menu on same scroll position during navigation
+BookEnableJS = true
- # Set source repository location.
- # Used for 'Last Modified' and 'Edit this page' links.
- BookRepo: https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book
+# Set source repository location.
+# Used for 'Last Modified' and 'Edit this page' links.
+BookRepo = https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book
- # Enable "Edit this page" links for 'doc' page type.
- # Disabled by default. Uncomment to enable. Requires 'BookRepo' param.
- # Path must point to 'content' directory of repo.
- BookEditPath: edit/master/exampleSite/content
+# Enable "Edit this page" links for 'doc' page type.
+# Disabled by default. Uncomment to enable. Requires 'BookRepo' param.
+# Path must point to 'content' directory of repo.
+BookEditPath = edit/master/exampleSite/content
- # (Optional, default January 2, 2006) Configure the date format used on the pages
- # - In git information
- # - In blog posts
- BookDateFormat: "Jan 2, 2006"
+# (Optional, default January 2, 2006) Configure the date format used on the pages
+# - In git information
+# - In blog posts
+BookDateFormat = "Jan 2, 2006"
```
-
### Page Configuration
+
You can specify additional params per page in front matter
-```yaml
----
+
+```md
++++
# Set type to 'docs' if you want to render page outside of configured section or if you render section other than 'docs'
-type: docs
+type = docs
# Set page weight to re-arrange items in file-tree menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
-weight: 10
+weight = 10
# (Optional) Set to mark page as flat section in file-tree menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
-bookFlatSection: true
+bookFlatSection = true
# (Optional) Set true to hide page or section from side menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
-bookHidden: true
+bookHidden = true
# (Optional) Set true to hide table of contents, overrides global value
-bookShowToC: false
----
-```
+bookShowToC = false
++++
+# Markdown content below
+```
### Partials
-There are few empty partials you can override in `layouts/partials/`
-| Partial | Placement |
-| -- | -- |
-| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/head.html` | Before closing `<head>` tag |
-| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/body.html` | Before closing `<body>` tag |
-| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/footer.html` | After page content |
-| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/menu-before.html` | At the beginning of `<nav>` menu block |
-| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/menu-after.html` | At the end of `<nav>` menu block |
+There are few empty partials you can override in `layouts/partials/`
+| Partial | Placement |
+| ----------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
+| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/head.html` | Before closing `<head>` tag |
+| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/body.html` | Before closing `<body>` tag |
+| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/footer.html` | After page content |
+| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/menu-before.html` | At the beginning of `<nav>` menu block |
+| `layouts/partials/docs/inject/menu-after.html` | At the end of `<nav>` menu block |
### Extra Customisation
-| File | Description |
-| -- | -- |
-| `static/favicon.png` | Override default favicon |
-| `assets/custom.scss` | Customise or override scss styles |
-| `assets/_fonts.scss` | Load custom font files (e.g. from files hosted locally in your `static` folder) |
+| File | Description |
+| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `static/favicon.png` | Override default favicon |
+| `assets/_custom.scss` | Customise or override scss styles |
+| `assets/_fonts.scss` | Replace default font with custom fonts (e.g. local files or remote like google fonts) |
## Contributing
+
### [Extra credits to contributors](https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book/graphs/contributors)
Contributions are welcome and I will review and consider pull requests.
Primary goals are:
- - Keep it simple
- - Keep minimal (or zero) default configuration
- - Avoid interference with user-defined layouts
-Feel free to open issue if you missing some configuration or customisation option.
+- Keep it simple
+- Keep minimal (or zero) default configuration
+- Avoid interference with user-defined layouts
+Feel free to open issue if you missing some configuration or customisation option.
## License
+
[MIT](LICENSE)