Re: ox-tufte-latex

[Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com>]

Hi,

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
>
>> 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. 
>

Oops, I meant margintable instead of marginnote.

> I've skimmed through the "sample-handout.pdf" of the tufte-latex 
> pkg.  marginfigure seems to be pretty similar to a figure except 
> that the environment is changed.  I wonder if it would be enough 
> to allow an :environment attribute to an image?

My solution was :float margin.

> Marginnotes.  I don’t think we have a concept like this.  I guess 
> it would be an attribute to a footnote.  Which you incidentally 
> asked about.  Would you use more than one type of footnotes in a 
> single document?

Marginnotes aren't numbered.  I don't think there is a similar Org mode
concept.  I use a link to make them, so I don't need an Org-mode
counterpart.

,-------------------------------------------------------------
| [[latex-opt:marginnote][The journals of Captain Cook and his
| crew contain the first written descriptions of old          
| Hawai`i.;-3\baselineskip]]                                  
`-------------------------------------------------------------

> Perhaps one could define footnote types, e.g. we now have [fn:N] 
> pointing to a footnote.  [xx:] could point to a note of type XX. 
> Of course what does this mean outside of LaTeX?  Perhaps an 
> explicit margin note would be more feasible.  I don’t know if this 
> is general interest though...
>
> I don’t understand the difference between margin notes and 
> sidenotes from a 10 seconds skim.

Sidenotes are numbered.

hth,
Tom

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