Thank You! This thread solved the problem I was having while going through the book " Build Websites with Hugo: Fast Web Development with Markdown".
Many of the template files had comments in the first several lines like this:
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{{ define "main" }}
{{ .Content }}
{{ end }}
After hours of comparing the example theme code in the printed book to what was provided in the code download and not finding any errors I somehow found this thread and saw someone posting about removing a comment fixed their problem (blank white pages as output).
The specific file(s) that had the comment problem were:
\Hugo\portfolio\themes\basic\layouts\index.html
\Hugo\portfolio\themes\basic\layouts\single.html
I am still going through the book tutorial, but am guessing there might be an issue with any layout html file having comments, such as the list.html layout. I tried putting the comment block at the end and it also broke the output. I’m using Hugo v0.73.0 and my text editor is Notepad++.