Jekyll posts and google fonts.

Today created my first Jekyll pages and also learned a bit about using google fonts w/ jekyll. Here’s how you do it:

First, head over to https://www.google.com/fonts and find your favorite font(s). You can add a bunch of fonts to a “collection” or just choose one and click the “quick use” icon. That’s what I did with a font called Arvo, just to test out the process. Here’s the code generated by quick use:

<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo:400,400italic,700,700italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

To add it to jekyll, paste this code into the head.html file in the includes folder.

Next, edit your main.scss to start using the font on your site. Just as an example, this would set Arvo as the base font for the site:

$base-font-family: 'Arvo', "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

Fun!

Next up, maybe something like next and previous buttons

And also, maybe I’ll work on creating a zotero citation export format to markdown, so that Zotero can export something like this:

* [Writing, Searching, Thinking, Learning: Cross-Training Peer Research and Writing Tutors to Maximize Student Success](http://www.loexconference.org/sessions.html). Presented at the LOEX Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI on May 10, 2014.

which will then display like this:

Writing, Searching, Thinking, Learning: Cross-Training Peer Research and Writing Tutors to Maximize Student Success. Presented at the LOEX Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI on May 10, 2014.

More things to learn