Forgive me if this is the most blindingly obvious question one could ask, but I haven’t seen a clear statement within the documentation as to how hugo applies a template to a particular .md file. My goal is to create a section overview/summary which lists the subsections within it, allowing someone…

How does hugo relate a .md file to a html layout file?

rdwatters June 6, 2017, 9:19pm 4

For future reference. Here is a thread for new docs feedback. Thanks @bep:

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