Re: ox-tufte-latex

[Spencer Boucher <spencer@spencerboucher.com>]

Looking forward to that, Tom.

Thomas S. Dye writes:

> Aloha Titus,
>
> I have bits and pieces of a tutorial, which I plan to finalize 
> and contribute to Worg in the next week or two.  I'll let the ML 
> know when I have it done.
>
> All the best, Tom
>
> Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> writes:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> thanks for sharing this.  I’m looking forward to using it.  Do 
>> you happen to have an example file that showcases the features?
>>
>>   Titus
>>
>> On 2016-02-01 Mon 16:26, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>>> Aloha all,
>>>
>>> I've cobbled together an exporter for the Tufte LaTeX classes, 
>>> which I'd like to contribute to Org mode contrib/.  A brief 
>>> description of the derived backend can be found below, and 
>>> I've attached the ox-tufte-latex.el file for the review 
>>> described on http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html.
>>>
>>> I've been using the derived backend for a while now and am 
>>> happy with how it is working.  The Tufte LaTeX classes 
>>> (especially the book class) require quite a bit of set up to 
>>> work optimally, and I'll be sharing what I've learned along 
>>> these lines in the next couple of weeks.  Org mode is a great 
>>> tool for authoring Tufte LaTeX documents!
>>>
>>> All the best, Tom
>>>
>>>                             ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 
>>>                              OX-TUFTE-LATEX
>>>
>>>                              Thomas S. Dye 
>>>                             ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
>>>
>>>
>>> The file `ox-tufte-latex.el' implements an Org mode export 
>>> backend for the Tufte LaTeX classes, which are designed to 
>>> produce books and handouts in the style developed by Edward 
>>> Tufte.  The backend is derived from `ox-latex.el'.
>>>
>>> A characteristic of Tufte's style is a page layout with a wide 
>>> margin on one side (typically the right side) in which notes, 
>>> references, small tables, and small figures are placed.
>>>
>>> The Tufte LaTeX classes implement several non-standard LaTeX 
>>> commands to achieve this page layout, including 
>>> `marginfigure', `margintable', and `sidenote'. 
>>> `Ox-tufte-latex.el' implements these commands.
>>>
>>> The `marginfigure' command is controlled by a new LaTeX 
>>> attribute `:float margin'.  In addition, there are attributes 
>>> to: set the offset, e.g., `:offset 1in', which adjusts the 
>>> position of the figure up or down in the margin; the vertical 
>>> alignment of figure captions, e.g., `:vertical-alignment t|b', 
>>> so they align with either the top or bottom of the float; and 
>>> `:horizontal-alignment l|r' in case a figure and its caption 
>>> end up on different pages.
>>>
>>> The `margintable' command is controlled by the LaTeX attribute 
>>> `:float margin' associated with a table.
>>>
>>> The Org mode footnote mechanism has been hijacked to produce 
>>> `sidenote' commands, instead of `footnote' commands.  The 
>>> `sidenote' command takes an optional parameter for the offset, 
>>> and this is implemented as a LaTeX attribute associated with 
>>> the Org mode footnote definition, e.g., ┌──── │ #+attr_latex: 
>>> :offset 36pt │ [fn:1] Cook referred to Koa`a as Koah.  └────


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