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| A Feature Tour | 2026-04-12 | A brief tour of the typography, structural, and analytic features available in an Ozymandias site. |
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This essay exists to give you something to look at on a fresh build and to demonstrate the major features of the pipeline at a glance. Feel free to delete it once you have written your own.
Typography
The body typeface is Spectral, a screen-first serif with old-style figures (2026, 1984), genuine italic like this, and bold weights. Standard ligatures are active: first, fifty, ffle. Headings are set in Fira Sans Semibold; code is JetBrains Mono.
Inline code looks like make build. Common abbreviations --- HTML, CSS, JSON, NASA, MIT --- are automatically set in smallcaps by the typography filter.
Sidenotes
Footnotes in your Markdown become sidebar notes on wide screens.1 On narrow screens they fall back to numbered footnotes at the bottom. No special syntax is required beyond standard Pandoc footnotes.
A second sidenote for demonstration.2 The numbering and positioning are handled automatically.
Mathematics
Inline math like e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0 uses KaTeX. Display equations render centered:
\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2}\,dx = \sqrt{\pi}The quadratic formula solves ax^2 + bx + c = 0:
x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}Code
Fenced code blocks with language annotations get syntax highlighting:
greet :: String -> String
greet name = "Hello, " ++ name ++ "!"
def greet(name: str) -> str:
return f"Hello, {name}!"
Wikilinks
Link between pages by title using double brackets: About resolves to the about page. Use pipe syntax for custom link text: Colophon.
Citations
Citations use Pandoc's [@key] syntax and resolve against data/bibliography.bib. For instance, Knuth's classic text on typesetting[@knuth1984] or Shannon's foundational paper on information theory[@shannon1948]. The bibliography appears at the bottom of the essay.
Epistemic profile
The frontmatter of this essay declares status, confidence, importance, evidence, and related fields. These render as a compact metadata block at the top of the page, giving readers a credibility signal before they commit to reading.
Tables
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| Typography | complete |
| Sidenotes | complete |
| Math (KaTeX) | complete |
| Code | complete |
| Citations | complete |
| Wikilinks | complete |
| Backlinks | complete |
| Score reader | complete |
Further features
- Backlinks: if other essays link to this page, they appear in a Backlinks section at the bottom.
- Similar links: enable the embedding pipeline (
uv sync && make build) and semantically similar essays appear in Further Reading. - Dark mode: use the settings toggle in the nav bar.
- Score reader: add SVG score pages to a composition directory; see
content/music/demo-piece/for an example.