Tufte-LaTeX – A Tufte-inspired LaTeX class for producing handouts, papers, and books.
From the webpage:
As discussed in the Book Design thread of Edward Tufte’s Ask E.T Forum, this site is home to LaTeX classes for producing handouts and books according to the style of Edward R. Tufte and Richard Feynman.
Download the latest release, browse the source, join the mailing list, and/or submit patches. Contributors are welcome to help polish these classes!
Some examples of the Tufte-LaTeX classes in action:
- Some papers by Jason Catena using the handout class
- A handout for a math club lecture on volumes of n-dimensional spheres by Marty Weissman
- A draft copy of a book written by Marty Weissman using the new Tufte-book class
- An example handout (source) using XeLaTeX with the
bidiclass option for the ancient Hebrew by Kirk Lowery…
Caution: A Tufte-inspired LaTeX class is no substitute for professional design advice and assistance. It will help you do “better,” for some definition of “better,” but professional design is in a class of its own.
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