Outputting to plain text

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Using the Output Format, I am trying to get Hugo to produce a plain text version of my posts.

Say I have a post that is titled hello-world.md. Hugo creates the folder “posts/hello-world” with the file index.html. I also want there to be a file in the same directory called index.txt which would be the plain text version of index.html.

in my hugo.toml

EDIT: I am on a mission to inspire people to use more plain text on the Internet and encourage them to use Lynx. I miss the internet of the 90’s.

[module]
  [module.hugoVersion]
    extended = false
    min = "0.116.0"

[mediaTypes]
  [mediaTypes.'text/plain']
    suffix = 'txt'

[outputFormats]
  [outputFormats.PlainText]
    mediaType = 'text/plain'
    isPlainText = true
    baseName = 'index'

[outputs]
  home = ['html']
  section = ['html']
  page = ['html', 'plaintext']

I have a file in my theme, layouts/_default/single.plaintext.txt as well as single.txt (just for good measure).

For both of this files I have in them:

{{ .Title }}
{{ strings.Repeat "=" (len .Title) }}

{{ .Content | plainify }}

According to the documentation it would seem that I have done all I need to do and should just be able to render the plain text files. Yet when I start hugo server -D , I get this warning:

Start building sites … 
hugo v0.144.2-098c68fd18f48031a7145bedab30cbaede48858f+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2025-02-19T12:17:04Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

WARN  found no layout file for "plaintext" for kind "page": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.

                   | EN  
-------------------+-----
  Pages            | 15  
  Paginator pages  |  0  
  Non-page files   |  1  
  Static files     |  2  
  Processed images |  0  
  Aliases          |  0  
  Cleaned          |  0

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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suffixes is an array

in fact the media type text/plain is a built in media type. You only need to define it if you want to change something.

if for verbosity you want to have that included change to:

[mediaTypes]
  [mediaTypes.'text/plain']
    suffixes = ['txt']

and change the order of arguments for strings.Repeat

{{ strings.Repeat (len .Title) "=" }}
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If your markdown file does not contain special things but can be read as text, you might want

{{ .RawContent }} instead of {{ .Content | plainify }} to keep the source layouts (fe. paragraphs)

4

Thank you! I was pulling what little hair I have left, out.

This solved the problem.

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