Re: ox-tufte-latex

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Mojn Tom,

I'm pretty invested in KOMA-Script but this is a great as a lot of 
people really appreciate the Tufte package.

Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:

> I've cobbled together an exporter for the Tufte LaTeX classes, 
> which I'd like to contribute to Org mode contrib/.

My initial beef with your code it that it seems, from skimming the 
code, to replicate a lot of functions from ox-latex.  This means 
that when ox-latex.el updates, we might have to backport the 
changes into ox-tufte-latex.  It’s already some work keeping 
ox-beamer and ox-latex up to date (e.g. I added a some feature to 
ox-latex and only realized much later that I hadn’t added it to 
ox-beamer).

E.g. org-tufte-latex--inline-image is very much alike 
org-latex--inline-image.

I don’t know to what extend it would be possible to minimize 
replication.  Perhaps you already did this and perhaps my comments 
are merely following from the fact that I did not study your patch 
appropriately (I’m traveling ATM).

Another question is, what features would we need to make more 
flexible in ox-latex in order to obsolete your class or reduce it 
to an element in org-latex-classes?  Is there some areas where 
it’s lacking for the purpose of "tufing" ox-latex output?

In any I’m very happy that you are working on this.  I hope the 
above is not discouraging; that’s at least not what it’s meant to 
be.

Thanks,
Rasmus


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