My first Jekyll post

February 8, 2015

So, this is a Jekyll blog post then. The first of many at least a few. It’s done using the Kramdown flavour of Markdown, with styling rules taken from a mixture of Jekyll’s default set and a nice theme called ‘Tufte’.

I’ve hopefully got some nice code syntax highlighting enabled too:

import java.util.magic;

class Foo {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		magic.Bar bar = new magic.Factory.create(new String[] {});)
	}
}

Hmm, that code block styling clearly needs some work to fit in with the Tufte content widths.

It looks like links can be done either inline,standard wiki style or using a Kramdown trick of post-references like this jekyll.

There’s also some Kramdown styling for footnotes ¹, which may or may not conflict with the sidebar markup widgets which look like this in the Tufte theme.

It looks like I should choose one style to use, probably the Tufte sidebar style since the theme is set up to work nicely with them.

Kramdown also has a few extra little niceties like turning ascii constructs into neater unicode glyphs. Like 3 dots becoming an ellipsis …

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