Durable Forms

An Essay on Load Bearing Representations — working manuscript, Draft 0.21 (July 2026).

The book is published as a GitHub Pages site from the docs/ directory. Each chapter is a standalone markdown file, and these files are the working manuscript.

Structure

• docs/index.md — title page and annotated table of contents
• docs/00-preface.md — Preface: On the Name
• docs/01-…10-*.md — Chapters 1–10, grouped into Parts I–IV (docs/part-*.md)
• docs/99-works-cited.md — Works Cited
• docs/_config.yml — Jekyll configuration (just-the-docs theme, built natively by GitHub Pages)

Local preview

Requires a modern Ruby (e.g. brew install ruby); the macOS system Ruby is too old. Note docs/Gemfile uses Jekyll 4 rather than the github-pages gem, because the GitHub Pages stack (Jekyll 3.9) cannot run on Ruby ≥ 3.2 — the rendered output is the same.

cd docs
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve   # http://127.0.0.1:4000/