I have been wanting to try the handout version for some time and after upgrading to 1.6.5 this afternoon,it looks like I'm back in business.
Thanks for reminding me to check it again since I had not seen anything new for 1.6.4 this morning. Depending on the topic, etc, tufte layouts look very useful. So, off to experiment! --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Joachim Osnabryg <o...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > From: Joachim Osnabryg <o...@jpberlin.de> > Subject: pro culture of margin notes > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Friday, December 18, 2009, 4:09 PM > Dear LyX-users, > > With the help of my last talks here and elsewhere I have my > LyX and LaTeX > installation (see footer) imbedding tufte-latex now spruced > up again on > Mac. I breathe a sigh of relief… just before the highdays > of the turn of > sun and year! Thanks to Uwe Stöhr and all contributers! > > For not to remain alone in the Tufte-style field of LyX, I > take the > liberty to promote and propagate the tufte-latex doc > classes here. Sorry, > if it bothers someone, but it's not commercial and I am > just a thankful > user of it. > > Since the first LyX layout file for tufte-latex, more than > one year ago, > was kindly created by the LyX developers (Jürgen > Spitzmüller at that time) > on my demand, almost all documents which I worked out, were > created in > tufte-latex with LyX. > > It isn't me skirted (escaped), that, on the user-side, I > am a rather > forlorn (unique) or unrivallet with this. Asking myself > whyever, the only > plausible answer seems me, that many LyXers who might like > the designe and > - for their works - could well use the possibilities bidden > by tufte-latex > > - especially the broad right margin and extense use of > sidenotes (instead > of footnotes) -, > > do not know it. With this, the tufte style resumes an good > old tradition > of printed books: the marginals, which when reading are > much easyer to > access by the eyes than footnotes or endnotes. > > Indeed, I would like to see the culture of marginals > requicken (revive) in > today's literary world again… and LaTeX and LyX are the > only instruments > to realize that. > > So if this has awoken your interest, have a look at the > produced > sample-pdfs at: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Layouts/tufte-handout/sample-handout.pdf > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Layouts/tufte-book/tuftebookforwiki.pdf > and/or > http://tufte-latex.googlecode.com/files/sample-handout-3.5.0.pdf > http://tufte-latex.googlecode.com/files/sample-book-3.5.0.pdf > > Best regards, > joachim > --Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 / TeXworks 0.2.3 > LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger > > __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/
