Within the Scholar-theme, Layouts are templates that achieve a specific appearance through HTML-structures and CSS-styling. In the Scholar-project ("Core"), this will mainly include ways of displaying academic work such as papers, journal articles, drafts, and other types of pages that fit within Core, as well as more normal types of content.
To make it easy to extend Layouts, a few problems need to be solved:
[x] Determine what common layouts cover academic publishing broadly
TeX in itself is messy and not easy to port to HTML
Only a small subset should exist in Core
Other formats?
[x] Determine a uniform, minimal HTML-structure to serve as a base
With the advances in CSS it is preferable to not unnecessarily complicate the structure
Will need WAI-ARIA compliance
[x] Determine the common elements of academic publishing
Title page
Table of contents
Headers and footers
Endnotes and footnotes
Bibliography
Page notes (Tufte-like)
Page numbers
Media: Charts, tables, images
Others?
[x] Determine if this affects writing and editing workflows
Would love to hear some experiences people have with using folders and single-files, not uncommon with LaTeX, for writing academically
Layouts for books and other types of published work or publications fit within the same broad category, but will be accomplished through extensions ("Modules").
Within the Scholar-theme, Layouts are templates that achieve a specific appearance through HTML-structures and CSS-styling. In the Scholar-project ("Core"), this will mainly include ways of displaying academic work such as papers, journal articles, drafts, and other types of pages that fit within Core, as well as more normal types of content.
To make it easy to extend Layouts, a few problems need to be solved:
Layouts for books and other types of published work or publications fit within the same broad category, but will be accomplished through extensions ("Modules").