Oct2 Theme

Oct2 is an Octopress ‘classic’ theme mod.

Install Octopress

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$ git clone https://github.com/imathis/octopress.git
$ bundle install --path=vendor/bundle #path is optional

Install Oct2 and generate the website

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$ git clone https://github.com/bijumon/oct2.git .themes/
$ bundle exec rake install[oct2]
$ bundle exec rake generate

About page

Oct2 includes an empty ‘about’ page at source/about/index.markdown.

Enable Mathjax

Rendering Latex equations requires using kramdown instead of rdiscount as the markdown processor.

_config.yml

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...
markdown: kramdown
mathjax: true

Note

• maruku supports mathjax but is not tested
• rdiscount and redcarpet has problems with mathjax rendering