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  <h1>How to Create a Distill Article</h1>
  <h2>A collection of examples and best practices for creating interactive explanatory articles using the Distill web framework</h2>
  <!-- <dt-byline></dt-byline> -->
  <p>Distill ships with a CSS framework and a collection of custom web components that make building interactive academic articles easier than raw HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This reference article details several examples and best practices for how to use both frameworks. Both are also available on Github with a permissive license, so feel free to use them independent of http://distill.pub as well.</p>
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  <h2>Setting up a Document</h2>
  <p>If you’re using Chrome as your development browser, here is the smallest distill post.</p>
  <dt-code block language="html">
    &lt;script src="../dist/template.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;dt-article&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;Hello World&lt;/h1&gt;
    &lt;/dt-article&gt;
  </dt-code>
  <p>However, this omits some required html tags that might cause rendering problems during development if you’re using a browser other than Chrome. These missing tags will be added during publishing, so if the above works for you, feel free to use it. If you are having issues with weird characters showing up, try adding <dt-code>doctype</dt-code> and <dt-code>meta</dt-code> tags explicitly.</p>
  <dt-code block language="html">
    &lt;!doctype html&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
    &lt;script src="../dist/template.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;dt-article&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;Hello World&lt;/h1&gt;
    &lt;/dt-article&gt;
  </dt-code>
  <p>A typical distill post will be quite a bit longer than this though. Below is a more complete example. Don’t worry if some of the tags don’t make sense, they’re all documented further in this post.</p>
  <dt-code block language="html">
    &lt;!doctype html&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
    &lt;script src="../dist/template.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;dt-article&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;Hello World&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;h2&gt;A description of the post&lt;/h2&gt;
      &lt;dt-byline&gt;&lt;/dt-byline&gt;
    &lt;/dt-article&gt;
    &lt;dt-bibliography&gt;&lt;/dt-bibliography&gt;
  </dt-code>
  <hr>
  <h2>Markdown</h2>
  <p>Markdown is supported as an alternative to html for the <dt-code language="html">&lt;dt-article&gt;</dt-code> element. </p>
  <dt-code block language="html">
    &lt;!doctype html&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
    &lt;script src="../dist/template.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;dt-article markdown&gt;
      ###Hello World

      ##A description of the post

      First paragraph of the article.
    &lt;/dt-article&gt;
    &lt;dt-bibliography&gt;&lt;/dt-bibliography&gt;
  </dt-code>
  <p>We use <a href="https://github.com/chjj/marked">marked</a> as the rendering engine, with <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax/">github flavored markdown</a> and <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/">smartypants</a> enabled. In development mode the markdown is translated in the client after the dom content has loaded, but when published the translation is precompiled.</p>
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  <h2>Data</h2>
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  <h2>Layouts</h2>
  <p>The main text column is referred to as the body. It is the assumed layout of any direct descendents of the <code>dt-article</code> element.</p>
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  <div class="fake-img l-page"><p>.l-page</p></div>
  <p>Occasionally you’ll want to use the full browser width. For this, use screen. You can also inset the element a little from the edge of the browser by appending, you guessed it, <code>inset</code>.</p>
  <div class="fake-img l-screen"><p>.l-screen</p></div>
  <div class="fake-img l-screen-inset"><p>.l-screen-inset</p></div>
  <p>Often you want to position smaller images so as not to completely interrupt the flow of your text. Or perhaps you want to put some text in the margin as an aside or to signal that it’s optional content. For these cases we’ll use the float-based <code>.side</code> layouts.</p>
  <div class="fake-img l-body side"><p>.l-body.side</p></div>
  <div class="fake-img l-page side"><p>.l-page.side</p></div>
  <p>They are all floated to the right and anchored to the right-hand edge of the position you specify. By default, each will take up approximately half of the width of the standard layout position, but you can override the width with a more specific selector. </p>
  <div class="fake-img l-gutter"><p>.l-gutter</p></div>
  <p>The final layout is for marginalia, asides, and footnotes. It does not interrupt the normal flow of <code>.l-body</code> sized text except on mobile screen sizes.</p>

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  <h2>Code Blocks</h2>
  <p>Syntax highlighting is provided within <dt-code language="html">&lt;dt-code&gt;</dt-code> tags. An example of inline code snippets: <dt-code language="html">&lt;dt-code language="html"&gt;let x = 10;&lt;/dt-code&gt;</dt-code>. For larger blocks of code, add a <dt-code>block</dt-code> attribute:</p>
  <dt-code block language="html">
    &lt;dt-code block language="javascript"&gt;
      var x = 25;
      function(x){
        return x * x;
      }
    &lt;/dt-code&gt;
  </dt-code>
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  <h2>Citation</h2>
  <p>Bibtex is the supported way of making academic citations. You first need have a global definition of all your possible citations. This can either be inlined in the document, or it can reference an external bibtex file.</p>
  <dt-code block language="html">
    &lt;dt-bibliography&gt;
    @article{gregor2015draw,
      title={DRAW: A recurrent neural network for image generation},
      author={Gregor, Karol and Danihelka, Ivo and Graves, Alex and Rezende, Danilo Jimenez and Wierstra, Daan},
      journal={arXivreprint arXiv:1502.04623},
      year={2015}
    }
    @article{mercier2011humans,
      title={Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory},
      author={Mercier, Hugo and Sperber, Dan},
      journal={Behavioral and brain sciences},
      volume={34},
      number={02},
      pages={57--74},
      year={2011},
      publisher={Cambridge Univ Press}
    }
    &lt;/dt-bibliography&gt;
  </dt-code>
  <p>Citations are then used with the <dt-code language="html">&lt;dt-cite&gt;</dt-code> tag.</p>
  <dt-code block language="html">
    &lt;dt-cite&gt;gregor2015draw&lt;/dt-cite&gt;
  </dt-code>
  <p>Take a look at this paper <dt-cite>gregor2015draw</dt-cite>.</p>

  <hr>
  <h2>Math</h2>
  <hr>
  <h2>Footnotes</h2>
  <p>This is a <dt-footnote ref="blah" /></p>
  <dt-footnote-body ref="blah"></dt-footnote-body>
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  <h2>HTML Includes</h2>
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  <h2>Authors</h2>

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<dt-appendix>
  <h3>Contributions</h3>
  <p>List of who did what</p>
</dt-appendix>
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