Re: ox-tufte-latex

[Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>]

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I found this <http://damitr.org/2014/01/09/latex-tufte-class-in-org-mode/>,
but I'm not getting it to work. I assume it's outdated? Will wait for this
new effort of yours, Mr. Dye. this
<http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/setting-up-a-latex-document-using-the-uggedall-or-tufte-latex-templates>
works
as straight latex on my system, so I know tufte-latex is good to go. Thanks
for the effort.

LB

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:

> Aloha Rasmus,
>
> You've got it exactly right.  I read through ox-latex.el, found the
> functions I wanted to change, copied them to ox-tufte-latex.el and added
> a few lines of code here and there (using babel and noweb chunks).
>
> It would indeed be easy to modify ox-latex.el so it supports the
> non-standard commands of the Tufte LaTeX package.  I can send patches to
> that effect, if you like.  Ox-latex would need to recognize a few new
> LaTeX attributes and export marginfigure, marginnote, and sidenote
> commands.  I hijacked footnote for sidenote, so this would probably need
> some work to recognize when one or the other was needed.
>
> The reason I originally decided not to suggest patches to ox-latex.el
> is that the Tufte LaTeX package is a bit cranky and I was unsure of its
> future. I thought it might be better to leave ox-latex to the more
> stable and mature LaTeX packages.  I hadn't thought about backporting,
> etc.
>
> hth,
> Tom
>
>
> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>
> > 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
>
>
> --
> Thomas S. Dye
> http://www.tsdye.com
>
>

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