This is the "Sanskrit" collaborative documentation theme for use with the Jekyll static website generator.

Some notable things you get with this theme (in decreasing order of interest):

• A collapsible "accordion" sidebar
• A collapsible "accordion" table-of-contents for each page.
• A layout which automatically adjusts to the user's screen size.
• An "Edit me" link on top of each page.
• Basic ability to include contents from another page using the same theme within anoher.
• Search engine optimization and webmaster stuff - which you would use with various search engines.
• Google custom search configuration
• Disqus for comments.
• Google analytics configuration
• Special formatting consideration for fonts which need to be displayed bigger (eg: Devanagari for sanskrit.)
• the usual Jekyll blog.
  • Post tag support
• Portability
  • We try to minimize the use of liquid templating language in favor of accomplishing stuff (menus, tables of contents, page inclusions) with javascript. This makes it a bit easier to move to another static website generator like hugo in the future.
• Lower build time.
  • Since we prefer using javascript to jekyll liquid magic, our build times can be an order of magnitude smaller (7 sec instead of 93 sec in one case).

• See this test site: https://sanskrit-coders.github.io/sanskrit-documentation-theme/!

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Take a look at this very repository for an example!

In particular, note the files that you would need to add / modify as needed:

• the _config.yml file.
  • Especially, specify that you're using this theme by either adding remote_theme: sanskrit-coders/sanskrit-documentation-theme or theme: sanskrit-documentation-theme (In which case you'd need to install the theme gem).
• The _data/sidebars/*.yml file, which defines the contents of the sidebar and top navigation menu you see for each page.
• The 404.md file, which defines how the "Page Not Found" results look like.
• The Gemfile : no modification needed.

PS: Installation is not needed if you are using the 'remote-theme' method described above.

Steps:

• Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile: gem "sanskrit-documentation-theme"
• Execute bundle Or install it yourself as: gem install sanskrit-documentation-theme

• sitemap.xml can be explicitly submitted to various search engines.

If you are using the remote-theme method described above, github might not automatically pick up changes made to the theme and regenerate your site. To force github to regenerate your site, a tip from here: git commit --allow-empty -m "Force rebuild of site"; git push

To experiment with this code, add some sample content and run bundle exec jekyll serve – this directory is setup just like a Jekyll site!

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub. 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.

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

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

When your theme is released, only the files in _layouts, _includes, _sass and assets tracked with Git will be bundled. To add a custom directory to your theme-gem, please edit the regexp in sanskrit-documentation-theme.gemspec accordingly.

• Update sanskrit-documentation-theme.gemspec
• gem build *.gemspec
• gem push *.gem

We fork off the tomjoht/documentation-theme-jekyll theme.

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