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Jekyll provides built-in support for Sass and CoffeeScript. In order to use
them, create a file with the proper extension name (one of `.sass`, `.scss`,
or `.coffee`) and start the file with two lines of triple dashes, like this:

{% highlight sass %}
---
---

// start content
.my-definition
  font-size: 1.2em
{% endhighlight %}

## Sass/SCSS

Jekyll allows you to customize your Sass conversion in certain ways.

If you are using Sass `@import` statements, you'll need to ensure that your
`sass_dir` is set to the base directory that contains your Sass files. You
can do that thusly:

{% highlight yaml %}
sass:
    sass_dir: _sass
{% endhighlight %}

The Sass converter will default to `_sass`.

You may also specify the output style with the `style` option in your
`_config.yml` file:

{% highlight yaml %}
sass:
    style: :compressed
{% endhighlight %}

These are passed to Sass, so any output style options Sass supports are valid
here, too.