Undoubtably one of the great minds of our time, Christopher Hitchens challenged his readers to think deeply on topics of politics, religion, war, and science. This Jekyll theme's design is inspired by the trade paperback version his book, Arguably, and is dedicated to his memory.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "hitchens-theme"

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: hitchens-theme

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install hitchens-theme

Usage

Home Layout

The home layout presents a list of articles ordered chronologically. All articles are presented in one page, similar to a book's table of contents.

The masthead of the home page is derived from the title and description set in your site's _config.yml file.

To include navigation in your site's masthead:

Create a _data directory in the root of your site.
Add a menu.yml file to the _data directory.
Use the following format to list your menu items:

- title: About
  url: /about

Be sure to start your urls with a /.

Post Layout

A sparsely decorated layout designed to present long-form writing in a manner that's pleasing to read.

Credits

The theme credits that appear at the bottom of each page can be turned off by including the following line in your site's _config.yml file:

hide_credits: true

Font

I spent a good amount of time trying to identify the font used on the front cover of the trade paperback version of Arguably. Unfortunately, I failed to accurately identify the exact font used. If you happen to know what font is used on the book cover, I would appreciate you letting me know :)

The theme includes a version of EB Garamond, designed by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo. It's the closest alternative I could come up with that included an open license to include with the theme.

A copy of the license has been included in the assets folder and must be included with any distributions of this theme that include the EB Garamond font files.

Contributing & Requesting Features

Bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/patdryburgh/hitchens.

This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Development

To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install.

The theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site. To test the theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using the theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test the theme's contents. As you make modifications to the theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

README.md

Hitchens