# My First Post

### Introduction

Hello World! This is my new GitLab page powered by Hugo. I’m setting up this blog to practise my math, foreign languages and IT skills.

### Why Hugo?

My original goal is to set up a personal blog for posting math.

I used to work with Octopress, but resolving the dependencies and other technical issues had actually took much more time and effort than expected. As a result, I digressed a lot from my studies to look into those problems.

I tried using WordPress.com, but typing $latex$ at the beginning of each math expression is so tedious that it breaks the workflow: careful proofread is needed to spot out typos. In addition, the lack of support for display style equation complicates the code. Finding a reliable free host for the full version WordPress is, in my opinion, a mission impossible.

Contrary to Octopress, Hugo is self-contained. I can write math offline from a text editor and post it afterward.

#### naripJul 23, 2022 13:43:11

I also want to make a personal blog which is good for math typing, and Hexo seems have some math typing issues, I wonder does Hugo have similar problem like sometimes the math won’t showing out but showing latex code?

Another question is, where is the search logo? I think if I want to build a personal blog, the greatest thing I can think of is I can search quickly to find out where the content is which is uncomparable with paper notes.

Thanks!

#### Vincent Tam naripAug 10, 2022 18:16:49

It depends on your static web generator’s parsing of source code into HTML. I suggest that you take a look at

1. the source code of any math post on my website
2. the source code of my tweaked Beautiful Hugo theme

cuz I was addicted to PC games and I had stopped for months, so I dun rmb what I had done to get $\LaTeX$ equations like

$$1 \times 2 = \sum_{i=0}^\infty \frac{1}{2^i}.$$

I’m too lazy to put a search logo, which isn’t present in the original theme. Instead of thinking about the CSS layouts more both PC & mobile devices, I would rather spend some time to take math notes and share them.