From: Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ox-tufte-latex
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:49:19 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28u33hof4.fsf@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877finx6hg.fsf@posteo.de>
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.
>> └────
--
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-02 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-02 0:26 ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-02 1:10 ` ox-tufte-latex Titus von der Malsburg
2016-02-02 1:49 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2016-02-03 21:57 ` ox-tufte-latex Spencer Boucher
2016-02-02 8:52 ` ox-tufte-latex Eric S Fraga
2016-02-03 0:28 ` ox-tufte-latex Rasmus
2016-02-03 1:35 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-03 2:29 ` ox-tufte-latex Lawrence Bottorff
2016-02-03 11:05 ` ox-tufte-latex Rasmus
2016-02-03 11:26 ` ox-tufte-latex Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-03 11:41 ` ox-tufte-latex Rasmus
2016-02-03 13:33 ` ox-tufte-latex Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-03 16:07 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-03 15:41 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-03 16:42 ` ox-tufte-latex Rasmus
2016-02-03 17:15 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-12 18:28 ` ox-tufte-latex Eduardo Mercovich
2016-02-12 19:02 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-18 18:43 ` ox-tufte-latex Eduardo Mercovich
2016-02-19 3:03 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-19 3:54 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-22 17:59 ` ox-tufte-latex Eduardo Mercovich
2016-02-22 18:52 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
2016-02-22 19:35 ` ox-tufte-latex John Hendy
2016-02-23 0:00 ` ox-tufte-latex Thomas S. Dye
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