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Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex


From: Thomas S . Dye
Subject: Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:49:19 -1000
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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 <address@hidden> 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



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