marign_note() rookie...

[nstrayer]

marign_note() rookie...

[nstrayer]

I have been lazy with just reverting to html for lots of stuff because that's the route I came from. That being said, it's formulaic enough that I really should package it. I will look into this shortly. Thanks for bringing it up!

[JohnsonBrent]

If it helps any, you can include in your tuftesque-themed blog posts a lot of the tufte elements, even marginfigure{}, from the tufte package. You just need to first create your post in an R Markdown document and knit it outside of blogdown and tuftesque. That is, don't use blogdown::build_site() just yet. Then after knitr produces your html document, copy the html code from that document and paste it into a brand new post created using blogdown and tuftesque, i.e., use new_post(). Now you can use build_site() on the new post and your margin figures, plots, or whatever else you created from the tufte package will magically appear. A lot of other Hugo themes won't respect this simple copy-paste method and won't render the html reflecting margin figures and code chunks as nicely as tuftesque.

...But the problem I'm now having with the above method is that tuftesque doesn't like the smart quotes inside the pasted html (or is it vice versa?). When tuftesque renders a document containing html code that was knit using the tufte package, phrases like "predictive models" (with quotes) appear as “predictive modelsâ€� (quotes replaced by weird symbols). Or the simple phrase "It's" (with a smart apostrophe) winds up appearing as Itâ€TMs.

Any suggestions?

[nstrayer]

The margin_note function only works when done on an inline R snippet. Aka

# title
this is some text `r tufte::margin_note("this is my note")`
continuing my normal text

You could also specify the output of the larger chunk to asis. Aka {r, results = "asis"} and it should work too. Basically, since it outputs raw html a normal R chunk wont work because it wraps the output in a <code> html block to make it clear its coming from R code.

[rosseji]

Great, should have read your blog post twice... 🙃

No luck with the suggestion {r, results = "asis"}...

```{r, results='asis'}
tufte::margin_note("this is my note")
```

[rosseji]

I'm interested in a tool though...

Would really love to be able to adapt @yihui Tufte handout tools that allow chuck options that format chuck output in the awesome Tufte margin style.

I see that on on the LFOD blog you guys just use inline html to add video/image content in the margin... so might try a work around

[1danjordan]

Hi, I was having similar issues trying to use tufte::margin_note and just wanted to suggest that it's more clearly documented. I thought we could use {marginfigure} from the tufte package, but that doesn't work, which was quite confusing.

And I just wanted to say thanks a million, I really love this theme!