hugo-theme-relearn/exampleSite/content/configuration/modifications/outputformats/_index.en.md

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Besides the print output format supoorted by the theme, you can write your own output formats.

From Scratch

Suppoe you want to add a new output format myformat that outputs HTML. You want to ignore everything the theme provides and implement the whole format by yourself.

For that, add a file layouts/_default/baseof.myformat.html and implement everything from scratch.

Using the Theme's Frame

If you want to keep the general framework and want to change only aspects of it, you can override some of following files

• layouts/_default/views/article.html - how one page content, including the title heading should be displayed
• layouts/_default/views/body.html - how the body of the page should be composed; usually you either call bodys/single.html to show a single page's content or bodys/tree.html to show the page's content and the content of every subpages recursivley
• layouts/_default/views/menu.html - how the sidebar menu should be assembled
• layouts/_default/views/storeOutputFormat.html - this stores the name of the output format in a variable to later be used by the framework; this makes it possible to write CSS specific to your output format

For an live example, see the implementations for the shipped print output format, that overrides layouts/_default/views/body.print.html, layouts/_default/views/menu.print.html and layouts/_default/views/storeOutputFormat.print.html.