AsciiDochttps://justwheel.github.io/toph-hugo-theme/tags/asciidoc/Honorary biography page of Septima Clark, a Civil Rights Movement pioneer and activist.Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSeptima Poinsette ClarkMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000Blogging with AsciiDoc in Tophhttps://justwheel.github.io/toph-hugo-theme/blog/asciidoc-blogging/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://justwheel.github.io/toph-hugo-theme/blog/asciidoc-blogging/

Toph treats AsciiDoc as a first-class content format. Everything that works with Markdown also works with AsciiDoc — taxonomy badges, post metadata, cover images, heading anchors, and navigation.

Why AsciiDoc?

AsciiDoc offers features that Markdown does not:

  • Native table of contents with :toc: document attribute

  • Admonition blocks (NOTE, TIP, WARNING, IMPORTANT, CAUTION)

  • Include directives for reusing content across pages

  • Built-in support for complex tables and nested lists

If you are already comfortable writing in AsciiDoc, Toph will serve your needs without compromise.

Creating an AsciiDoc post

Create a file with the .adoc extension in your blog directory:

hugo new blog/my-post.adoc

Add YAML front matter at the top of the file, followed by AsciiDoc content:

---
title: "My Post Title"
date: 2026-01-15
draft: false
categories:
  - "tech"
tags:
  - "hugo"
  - "asciidoc"
author: "Author Name"
description: "A short summary of the post."
---

Your AsciiDoc content starts here.

Table of contents

To enable a table of contents, add the :toc: attribute after the front matter:

---
title: "My Post Title"
toc: true
---
:toc:

== First Section

Toph’s CSS styles the AsciiDoc-generated table of contents identically to Markdown’s toc: true front matter option. Both formats produce the same visual result.

Heading anchors

Clickable anchor links (🔗) appear on hover for all section headings. For Markdown, this is handled by a Hugo render hook. For AsciiDoc, Toph injects the same anchor markup via template processing. Both formats produce identical results.

Learn more

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