Re: [O] ox-tufte-latex

[Lawrence Bottorff]

I found this, but I'm not getting it to work. I assume it's outdated? Will wait for this new effort of yours, Mr. Dye. this works as straight latex on my system, so I know tufte-latex is good to go. Thanks for the effort.

LB

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Thomas S. Dye <address@hidden> wrote:

Aloha Rasmus,

You've got it exactly right.  I read through ox-latex.el, found the
functions I wanted to change, copied them to ox-tufte-latex.el and added
a few lines of code here and there (using babel and noweb chunks).

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.

The reason I originally decided not to suggest patches to ox-latex.el
is that the Tufte LaTeX package is a bit cranky and I was unsure of its
future. I thought it might be better to leave ox-latex to the more
stable and mature LaTeX packages.  I hadn't thought about backporting,
etc.

hth,
Tom

Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Mojn Tom,
>
> I'm pretty invested in KOMA-Script but this is a great as a lot of
> people really appreciate the Tufte package.
>
> Thomas S. Dye <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I've cobbled together an exporter for the Tufte LaTeX classes,
>> which I'd like to contribute to Org mode contrib/.
>
> My initial beef with your code it that it seems, from skimming the
> code, to replicate a lot of functions from ox-latex.  This means
> that when ox-latex.el updates, we might have to backport the
> changes into ox-tufte-latex.  It’s already some work keeping
> ox-beamer and ox-latex up to date (e.g. I added a some feature to
> ox-latex and only realized much later that I hadn’t added it to
> ox-beamer).
>
> E.g. org-tufte-latex--inline-image is very much alike
> org-latex--inline-image.
>
> I don’t know to what extend it would be possible to minimize
> replication.  Perhaps you already did this and perhaps my comments
> are merely following from the fact that I did not study your patch
> appropriately (I’m traveling ATM).
>
> Another question is, what features would we need to make more
> flexible in ox-latex in order to obsolete your class or reduce it
> to an element in org-latex-classes?  Is there some areas where
> it’s lacking for the purpose of "tufing" ox-latex output?
>
> In any I’m very happy that you are working on this.  I hope the
> above is not discouraging; that’s at least not what it’s meant to
> be.
>
> Thanks,
> Rasmus


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