app/src/content/chapters/writing-your-content.mdx

{/* IMPORTS */}
import { Image } from 'astro:assets';
import placeholder from '../assets/image/placeholder.png';
import Sidenote from '../../components/Sidenote.astro';
import Wide from '../../components/Wide.astro';
import Note from '../../components/Note.astro';
import FullWidth from '../../components/FullWidth.astro';
import HtmlEmbed from '../../components/HtmlEmbed.astro';
import ColorPicker from '../../components/ColorPicker.astro';
import Palettes from '../../components/Palettes.astro';
import audioDemo from '../assets/audio/audio-example.wav';
import Accordion from '../../components/Accordion.astro';

## Writing your content

Once you have set up your project and started the development server, you can start writing your article.

### Content structure

Your **article** lives in **one and unique place**. The `content` folder.

<HtmlEmbed frameless src="demo/content-structure.html" /> 

### Article.mdx

The `article.mdx` file is the **main entry point** of your article which contains **2 main parts**.

<Note emoji="💡" variant="info">**MDX** is a mix of **Markdown** and **HTML/JSX**: write regular <a href="#markdown" >Markdown</a> and <a href="#components" >Components</a> when needed. We’ll describe the available options you can use later in this guide.</Note>


#### **Frontmatter**

Metadata and options for the article. Each of them is described in the table below.

<small className="muted">**Frontmatter** in app/src/content/article.mdx</small>
```mdx
---
title: "This is the main title"
subtitle: "This will be displayed just below the banner"
description: "A modern, MDX-first research article template with math, citations, and interactive figures."
published: "Feb 19, 2025"
tags:
  - research
  - template
authors:
  - name: "Thibaud Frere"
    url: "https://huggingface.co/tfrere"
    affiliations: [1]
  - name: "Alice Martin"
    url: "https://example.com/~alice"
    affiliations: [1, 2]
  - name: "Robert Brown"
    url: "https://example.com/~bob"
    affiliations: [2]
affiliations:
  - name: "Hugging Face"
    url: "https://huggingface.co"
  - name: "Example University"
    url: "https://example.edu"
doi: 10.1234/abcd.efgh
licence: Diagrams and text are licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC‑BY 4.0</a> with the source available on <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/stfrere/research-article-template">Hugging Face</a>, unless noted otherwise. Figures reused from other sources are excluded and marked in their captions (“Figure from …”).
seoThumbImage: "https://example.com/thumb.png"
tableOfContentsAutoCollapse: true
---
```

<Accordion title="Frontmatter fields">
| Field | Required | Notes | Type |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| title | Yes | Main title; supports line breaks with "\n" (falls back to "Untitled article") | string |
| subtitle | Yes | Shown just below the title | string |
| description | Yes | Used for SEO/meta description | string |
| published | Yes | e.g., "2025-02-19" or readable date | string/date |
| tags | No | List of keywords | string[] |
| authors | No | Affiliation indices refer to the `affiliations` list | `string[] or { name, url?, affiliations? }[]` |
| affiliations | No | Alias: `affiliation` (single or array) | `{ name, url? }[]` |
| doi | No | DOI identifier | string |
| licence | No | Rendered in footer; HTML supported | string (HTML allowed) |
| seoThumbImage | No | Overrides default OpenGraph image | string (URL) |
| tableOfContentsAutoCollapse | No | Controls TOC auto-collapse | boolean |
</Accordion>

#### **Content**

Your story. Write your content here.

<small className="muted">**Content** in app/src/content/article.mdx</small>
```mdx
import placeholder from '../assets/image/placeholder.png'
import ResponsiveImage from '../components/ResponsiveImage.astro'
import Sidenote from '../components/Sidenote.astro'

<Sidenote>
  This paragraph is written in Markdown. 
  <Fragment slot="aside">A short callout inserted via a component.</Fragment>
  </Sidenote>
<ResponsiveImage src={placeholder} alt="Sample image with optimization" />

This paragraph is also written in Markdown. 
```

#### Chapters

**If** your article becomes **too long** for one file, you can **organize** it into **separate chapters**.

Simply **create a new file** in the `app/src/content/chapters` **directory**.  
Then, **include** your new chapter in the main `article.mdx` like below.


<small className="muted">Example</small>
```mdx
import MyChapter from './chapters/my-chapter.mdx';

<MyChapter />
```
<small className="muted">You can see a living example here <a target="_blank" href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/tfrere/research-article-template/blob/main/app/src/content/chapters/best-pratices.mdx">app/src/content/chapters/best-pratices.mdx</a>.</small>

### **Table of contents**
 
The **Table of contents** is generated **automatically** from your **H2–H4** headings. Keep headings **short** and **descriptive**; links work on **desktop** and **mobile**.

<Note variant="info" emoji="💡">You can make the table of contents collapse by changing the `tableOfContentsAutoCollapse` parameter in the <a href="#frontmatter">frontmatter</a>. Which is `true` by default.</Note>

### Theme

All **interactive elements** (buttons, inputs, cards, etc.) are themed with the **primary color** you choose.

You can **update this main color** to match your brand by changing the `--primary-color` variable in the `app/src/styles/_variables.css` file.

Use the **color picker** below to see how the primary color affects the theme.

#### Brand color

<Sidenote>
  <ColorPicker />
  <Fragment slot="aside">
    You can use the color picker to select the right color.
    
    Here is an example of an <a href="#">interactive element</a>.
  </Fragment>
</Sidenote>


#### Color palettes

Here is a suggestion of **color palettes** for your **data visualizations** that align with your **brand identity**. These palettes are generated from your `--primary-color`.

<Palettes />
<br/>
**Use color with care.**
Color should rarely be the only channel of meaning.
Always pair it with text, icons, shape or position. The simulation helps you spot palettes and states that become indistinguishable for people with color‑vision deficiencies.

#### Using the palettes

You can copy them manually from the palette viewer just above, or fetch colors via `window.ColorPalettes.getColors(key, count)` where `key` is one of `'categorical'`, `'sequential'`, `'diverging'`, and `count` is the desired number of colors (defaults to 6).

<Accordion title="Code example">
  ```js
// Usage (with explicit counts)
const cat = window.ColorPalettes.getColors('categorical', 8);
const seq = window.ColorPalettes.getColors('sequential', 8);
const div = window.ColorPalettes.getColors('diverging', 7);

// For current primary color string
const primaryHex = window.ColorPalettes.getPrimary();

// If you change --primary-color dynamically, call refresh to notify listeners
document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--primary-color', '#6D4AFF');
window.ColorPalettes.refresh();
```
</Accordion>