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tufte-latex provides LaTeX classes for handouts and books inspired by Edward Tufte’s design principles, emphasizing clarity, readable measure, and rich marginalia. The classes feature wide side margins that host sidenotes, citations, and small figures, letting the main text flow without heavy footnote clutter. Built-in environments make it easy to place margin figures and tables, call out important points, and keep references close to the text they annotate. The typography favors generous whitespace, careful figure placement, and subtle rules so data and ideas take center stage. You can choose between handout and book variants, each with appropriate frontmatter, sectioning, and page geometry defaults. Authors who present technical material with many references, small graphics, or asides will find the layout supports legibility and skimmability. The result is a distinctive, disciplined page design that helps readers absorb dense information without visual noise.
Features
- Classes for both handouts and books following Tufte’s distinctive style with wide margins and side/margin notes
- Commands such as \sidenote, \marginnote, \newthought to allow margin content, opening small caps leading sentences etc.
- Good integration for figures/tables captions, references, in margin or near content to reduce visual disruption
- Several options to customize justification, symmetric margins, paper size, loading font sets, etc.
- Automatic conversion of footnotes to side notes where appropriate; ability to adjust margin text etc.
- Well documented, examples included (sample handout, sample book), included in major LaTeX distributions (TeX Live, MiKTeX)
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