Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex

[Rasmus]

Hi,

Thomas S. Dye <address@hidden> 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. 

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?

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?

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.

Thanks,
Rasmus

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