Ed.
Ed. is a Jekyll theme designed for textual editors based on minimal computing principles, and focused on legibility, durability, ease and flexibility.
Models For : Digital Publishing Critical Edition
People: Alex Gil (Yale University) , Susanna Allés Torrent , Terry Catapano , Johann Gillium
About Ed.
Current Features
- Templates for narrative, drama and poetry
- Responsive design for mobile phones, tablets and PCs.
- Relatively easy to learn and teach
- Works well in high- or low- bandwidth scenarios
- Easier for digital archives and libraries to preserve
- Open source, open access
- Unobtrusive footnotes
- Metadata in Dublin Core and OpenGraph to play nice with Zotero, libraries and social media.
- Automatic table of content generation
- Simple search functionality
- Annotations via hypothes.is
- Optional: Ability to generate well-formatted bibliographies and linked citations

Ed.’s sidebar chapter browse feature, as seen in the Ed demo for the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Ed. version of Walt Whitman’s ‘O Captain! My Captain!’
record contributor:
Alex Gil (Yale University)
last update: 2022-05-19