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@@ -1,5 +1,37 @@ # Ed -A theme for [Hugo](http://gohugo.io), a framework for building websites. + +Ed is a [Hugo](http://gohugo.io) theme designed for textual editors based on +[minimal computing](http://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/) principles, and focused on legibility, +durability, ease and flexibility. + +This theme is adopted from [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) [Ed](https://github.com/minicomp/ed) theme +by [Alex Gil](https://twitter.com/elotroalex). + +## Introduction + +One of our most pressing and ever-evolving needs as scholars is to pass on our textual artifacts +from one generation to another. The art of textual editing, among other practices, has helped many +cultures to remember and interpret for centuries. Alas, that art is practiced and encouraged in its +highest form by a dwindling number of scholars. In a digital environment the problem is compounded +by the difficulties of the medium. While vast repositories and "e-publications" appear on the +online scene yearly, very few manifest a textual scholar's disciplined attention to detail. In +contrast, most textual scholars who have made the leap to a rigorous digital practice have focused +on markup, relying on technical teams to deploy and maintain their work. This makes your average +scholarly digital edition a very costly and therefore limited affair. + +As we see it, a minimal edition is one that aims to reduce the size and complexity of the back and +front end while flattening the learning curves for the user and the producer. Out of the box, the Ed +theme can help you build a simple reading edition, or a traditional scholarly edition with footnotes +and a bibliography, without breaking the bank. In our estimate, these are the two most immediately +useful type of editions for editors and readers. An edition produced with Ed consists of static +pages whose rate of decay is substantially lower than database-driven systems. As an added bonus, +these static pages require less bandwidth. Our hope is that our approach can help beginners and +veterans deploy beautiful editions with less effort, and that it can help us teach a 'full stack' +[in one academic semester](https://github.com/susannalles/MinimalEditions/blob/master/README.md), +while allowing us to care for our projects at less cost, and perhaps, just perhaps, to generate +high-quality editions on github.io in large quantities based on the +[git-lit](http://jonreeve.com/2015/09/introducing-git-lit/) model by Jonathan Reeve. We're coming +for you, Kindle! ## Configuration |