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# Hugo Book Theme

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### [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](#features)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Menu](#menu)
- [Configuration](#configuration)
- [Shortcodes](#shortcodes)
- [Contributing](#contributing)

## Features

- Clean simple design
- Mobile friendly
- Customisable
- Designed to not interfere with other layouts
- Zero initial configuration
- Handy shortcodes

## Requirements

- Hugo 0.55 or higher
- Hugo extended version, read more [here](https://gohugo.io/news/0.48-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"`/`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 menu.  
Given you have this file structure

```
├── content
│   ├── docs
│   │   ├── page-one.md
│   │   └── page-two.md
│   └── posts
│       ├── post-one.md
│       └── post-two.md
```

Create file `content/docs/menu/index.md` with content

```md
+++
headless = true
+++

- [Book Example](/docs/)
  - [Page One](/docs/page-one)
  - [Page Two](/docs/page-two)
- [Blog](/posts)
```

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.yaml)
- [Leaf bundles](https://gohugo.io/content-management/page-bundles/)

## Blog

Simple blog supported for section `posts`

## Configuration

### Site Configuration

There are few configuration options you can add to your `config.toml` file.  
You can also see `yaml` example [here](https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book/blob/master/exampleSite/config.yaml).

```toml
# (Optional) Set this to true if you use capital letters in file names
disablePathToLower = true

# (Optional) Set this to true to enable 'Last Modified by' date and git author
#  information on 'doc' type pages.
enableGitInfo = true

# (Optional) Theme is intended for documentation use, therefore it doesn't render taxonomy.
# You can remove related files with config below
disableKinds = ['taxonomy', 'taxonomyTerm']

[params]
# (Optional, default 6) Set how many table of contents levels to be showed on page.
# Use false to hide ToC, note that 0 will default to 6 (https://gohugo.io/functions/default/)
# You can also specify this parameter per page in front matter
BookToC = 3

# (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) This value is duplicate of $link-color for making active link highlight in menu bundle mode
# BookMenuBundleActiveLinkColor = '\#004ed0'

# 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'

# (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 true) Enables or disables search function with lunr.js
BookSearch = true
```

### Page Configuration

You can specify additional params per page in front matter

```toml
# Set type to 'docs' if you want to render page outside of configured section or if you render section other than 'docs'
type = 'docs'

# Set page weight to re-arrange items in file-tree menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
weight = 10

# (Optional) Set to mark page as flat section in file-tree menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
bookFlatSection = true

# (Optional) Set true to hide page or section from side menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
bookHidden = true

# (Optional) Set how many levels of ToC to show. use 'false' to hide ToC completely
bookToC = 3
```

### 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       |

### Extra Customisation

| 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) |

## Shortcodes

### Expand

Provides clickable panel that show extra hidden content.

```
{{< expand >}}
## Markdown content
{{< /expand >}}
```

### Tabs

Useful if you want to show alternative information per platform or setting.

```
{{< tabs "uniqueid" >}}
{{< tab "MacOS" >}} # MacOS Content {{< /tab >}}
{{< tab "Linux" >}} # Linux Content {{< /tab >}}
{{< tab "Windows" >}} # Windows Content {{< /tab >}}
{{< /tabs >}}
```

### Multi column text

Organize text in 2 or more columns to use space efficiently.

```html
{{< columns >}} <!-- begin columns block -->

# Left Content Lorem markdownum insigne...

<---> <!-- magic sparator, between columns -->

# Mid Content Lorem markdownum insigne...

<---> <!-- magic sparator, between columns -->

# Right Content Lorem markdownum insigne...
{{< /columns >}}
```

### Mermaid Chat

Render various charts with [mermaidjs](https://mermaidjs.github.io/)

```
{{< mermaid >}}
sequenceDiagram
    Alice->>Bob: Hello Bob, how are you?
    alt is sick
        Bob->>Alice: Not so good :(
    else is well
        Bob->>Alice: Feeling fresh like a daisy
    end
    opt Extra response
        Bob->>Alice: Thanks for asking
    end
{{< /mermaid >}}
```

## 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.