devangel77b/tuftex

tuftex is a Latex package (not class) implementing tufte-latex stuff for compatibility with tufte.css

tuftex

Dennis Evangelista, 2023

tuftex is a Latex package (not class) implementing tufte-latex stuff for compatibility with tufte.css, https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ and https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css.

It is based on tufte-latex, https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex and https://ctan.org/pkg/tufte-latex?lang=en. Those are great, especially classes tufte-handout and tufte-book but they do not work right with tex4ebook, which I would like to use in order to create reflowable EPUB and iBooks that can be used on iPads for teaching etc. The things in tufte-latex that don't seem to play nice are soul and letterspace. Also, it's really hard to read the older Latex code so I'm trying to refactor it based on 2023 latex2e conventions. I'm doing it as a package vice a class because it's more of a style rather than a difference class of thing than an article or whatever.

Desired workflows

The refactored tuftex shoudl be compatible with the following:

• Call pdflatex or latexmk for regular PDF production. I'm not super interested in odd flavors of Latex and I'm too lazy to implement many of the options I don't plan to use (sfcaptions, a4paper, etc etc etc). I would like the PDFs to print nicely double sided for hardcopy bound output.
• Call tex4ebook with an appropriate .cfg file and insert the tufte.css file to get nice reflowable iPad iBook output for when I don't want to print and carry around paper.

Dependencies

Top level dependencies in Latex so far:

• titlesec, titletoc
• sidenotes
• geometry
• ragged2e
• changepage
• mathpazo, helvet, beramono, fontenc, textcomp
• caption
• natbib
• bibentry
• pgffor

Contributors

D Evangelista.

Thanks to

E Tufte, D Liepmann and team.

tuftex's Issues

Add page numbers, fancy headers

For tufte-handout firstpage is empty, later pages have title pageno in upper right?

book does other stuff... cross that bridge later.

floats - marginfigure and margintable do not render correctly in tex4ebook output

this may just be something we have to bite and fix with style sheet tufte.css ? marginfigure and margintable caption and reference are correct but the images don't show up right iin the ebook output.

floats - caption placement

Caption placement in figure and table should be aligned at the top but it's not doing that.

The fix is a rather complicated bit where the float body is set in a box, the caption is set in another box, and these are baseline aligned or corrected so they match.

\thanks does not show up in tex4ebook output

In testing /test/sidenotes/basic/test.tex, I find that the \thanks part which gets turned into the first sidenote does not show up in the tex4ebook epub3 output. The other notes are numbered starting from 1. This is probably a wontfix? Doesnt seem to affect other things and use of \thanks in title or author is probably a rare thing (not going to use it as affiliation).

Add citations

Add cite and natbib etc.

Add floats

Need to add floats like figure, figure*, table, table*, and marginfigure with correct caption behavior. Was close before, but need to tweak captions to be in right place.

cite - bibtex citations minor bug in width of bibentry, space after citemark

1. There seems to be a long space after the citemark that I don't know why it's there in citation.
2. Also the citation bibentries in the sidenote are very slightly wider than the ones that tufte-handout generates?

Low priority if it doesn't interfere with other stuff. Possibly wontfix.

floats - figure* and table* strangeness about textwidth columnwidth etc

Somethign not quite right there? textwidth or columnwidth are not set right? not sure about this one. it results in these not looking like the original tufte-latex.