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Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex
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Titus von der Malsburg |
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Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:10:03 -0800 |
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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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- [O] ox-tufte-latex, Thomas S . Dye, 2016/02/01
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex,
Titus von der Malsburg <=
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex, Eric S Fraga, 2016/02/02
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex, Rasmus, 2016/02/02
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex, Thomas S . Dye, 2016/02/02
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex, Lawrence Bottorff, 2016/02/02
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex, Rasmus, 2016/02/03
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/03
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex, Rasmus, 2016/02/03
- Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/03