Margin Figures

[cpfiffer]

Margin Figures

[1danjordan]

Hi @cpfiffer I was inspired by Nick's theme and forked the original hugo-tufte theme myself, restyled it to match Envisioned CSS and wrote a custom build script that will properly render Rmarkdown files that include tufte chunks. You can see it here:

https://github.com/dandermotj/hugo-envisioned/

I use it for my own Github blog - see an example of the Tufte Handout features here:

https://dandermotj.github.io/post/tufte-handout/

See R/build.R for the script. This is a very hacky way of doing this. Because blogdown uses Rmarkdown, knitr and hugo it took me a long time to figure out how to make it work. This could be made very easy if blogdown accepted custom formats but for the moment it doesn't. I would suspect the Yihui would be very open to a pull request on this.

[amikami102]

Hi, @cpfiffer, I got it to work by moving my "images" folder from inside "static" to the root directory. If you want to put a figure (say, "images/logo.png") to appear in the margin, you can write r tufte::margin_note("![](/images/logo.png)"). For some reason, margin figures don't work when the image files are located within"static/images", but you can still include images in your main body with figures located without.