Example of a text snippet (with normal, monospaced and code text)

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

Jekyll requires blog post files to be named according to the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP

Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and MARKUP is the file extension representing the format used in the file. After that, include the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Check out the jekyll-docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Jekyll Talk.

Example of keyboard inputs

default:

haha

bash:

haha

cmd:

haha

zsh:

haha

Example of code without background or highlight (usually used for screen output)

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Example of equation rendering

Block equation:

a 2 + b 2 = c 2

Inline equation: a 2 + b 2 = c 2

Example of inline quote and blockquote

According to Shakespeare, To be or not to be, that is the question.

Favorite excerpt from The Kite Runner

And suddenly Hassan’s voice whispered in my head: For you, a thousand times over. Hassan the harelipped kite runner.