Ed
A Jekyll theme for minimal editions :book:
Overview
Ed is a Jekyll theme designed for textual editors based on minimal computing principles. It aims to provide a simple and flexible platform for building textual editions while reducing complexity and costs. With features like responsive design, easy installation, and compatibility with digital archives and libraries, Ed offers a user-friendly solution for creating high-quality editions.
Features
- Templates for narrative, drama, and poetry: Ed provides customizable templates for different types of textual editions, allowing users to create editions in various formats easily.
- Responsive design: The theme is designed to work well on mobile phones, tablets, and PCs, ensuring a seamless reading experience across different devices.
- Easy to learn and teach: Ed has a low learning curve, making it accessible for beginners. It also offers teaching resources to help users get started quickly.
- Bandwidth-friendly: The static pages generated with Ed require less bandwidth, making it efficient for users with limited internet access.
- Preservation-friendly: Ed is designed to be compatible with digital archives and libraries, making it easier to preserve and maintain editions in the long term.
- Open source and open access: Ed follows open source principles, allowing users to freely use, modify, and distribute the theme. It also supports open access initiatives in academia.
- Footnotes and metadata: Ed supports unobtrusive footnotes and metadata in Dublin Core and OpenGraph formats, enabling compatibility with reference management tools and social media platforms.
- Search functionality: Ed includes a simple search functionality, allowing users to easily search for specific content within the editions.
- Annotations support: Ed integrates with hypothes.is, a web annotation tool, to enable annotations and collaborative discussions within the editions.
- Optional bibliographies: Ed offers the ability to generate well-formatted bibliographies and linked citations, providing an additional feature for scholarly editions.
