Dark Paper

Dark Paper is a dark theme for Jekyll. It is a sister theme of white-paper. If you like light colored themes, you can check white-paper.

It is built keeping content in focus and is best for writers/developers who also like to share code with their essays.

Create blog posts

jekyll-compose gem is now installed with jekyll so now creating a new post is as easy as running this simple command

# ensure all the required bundles are installed
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll post "Tooling Considered Harmful"

Configuration file: /Users/vinitkumar/projects/vinitkumar.github.com/_config.yml
New post created at _posts/2019-03-06-tooling-considered-harmful.md

$ git status

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

  _posts/2019-03-06-tooling-considered-harmful.md

Dark Paper in Action

• Home page

• Profile page

How to use Dark Paper

Fork the repo to your account by clicking the button on the top right as shown in the image:

and then where you want to fork it as shown below.

Next, Go the the project settings and change the repository name to <username>.github.io where username is your username.

Change these entries in the _config.yml file:

Also, change this line in head.html link

<!-- From this -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href=" {{ '/css/main.min.css' | relative_url }}" type="text/css" />
<!-- To this -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href=" {{ '/css/main.min.css' | absolute_url }}" type="text/css" />

This will make sure that the path of CSS is correct and the theme loads correctly.

master_repo: false
url: "<username>.github.io"
rtl: false  # change to true if posts is in Arabic/other Right to left language.

Also, change all other fields in the _config.yml file to your choice.

Installation

Local Development

This theme requires you to install couple of tools first to setup jekyll locally.

git clone [email protected]:vinitkumar/white-paper.git

# If you have ruby installed.
gem install jekyll bundler

# If you have node installed.
npm install
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli  #to get the task runner for grunt.
bundle install
jekyll serve

# on running the serve script, the site will be live on
http://127.0.0.1:4000

This theme uses grunt to concat & minify the css for best performance. In order to prepare the css build. Run grunt It will create a main.min.css file in the css folder.

Switch Syntax Highlighting.

This theme also provides syntax highlighting in different theme. Inside css folder, there is a syntax folder.

.
├── emacs.css
├── github.css
├── monokai.css
├── native.css
├── syntax.css
└── vim.css

Now in the gruntfiles.js

concat: {
  dist: {
    src: [
      'css/base.css',
      'css/sytax/emacs.css', // change this to another theme if you prefer, like vim.css and run grunt
      'css/octicons.css'
    ],
    dest: 'css/<%= pkg.name %>.add.css'
  }
}

License

• see LICENSE file

Version

• Version 1.0.0

Contact

Developer

• Homepage: http://vinitkumar.me
• e-mail: [email protected]
• Twitter: @vinitkme