Re: Is there some easy way to do tufte-style side note?

From: Andy Thomas <andythomas@web.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Is there some easy way to do tufte-style side note?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 16:41:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A726B7A4-0BF1-441B-9091-E863A27264F9@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jpqhc4$qb5$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hello Jano,

On May 26, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Jano Kula wrote:

> Hello Andy,
> 
> On 05/23/2012 04:09 PM, Andy Thomas wrote:
>> I finished a first version of a tufte style sample document that is based on a predecessor in another macro language. The auto alignment of the marginals has to be improved, but the rest looks already quite decent.
>> 
>> Please see: https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2303165&fileOId=2303168
>> 
>> for a full sample document.
> 
> Nice work! Decent and nice design, good typesetting, I assume some hand work which of course cannot be avoided to make the result pleasing.
> 

thank you for the positive feedback. The example thesis has a lot of hand work. However, in the end I would like to have something that looks 95% instead of 100%, but fully automatic. Then, I could output the same text in different output formats (book, handouts for every chapter, e-reader, ...), tweaking every file would cost too much time.

> Just two remarks to the layout. Figure descriptions set in to the block (narrow column) produces too large spaces in the lines often. Ragged text would suit it better, I think.

Seven Thesis were made, so far, and everyone plays a little with the overall design to see how things look when tweaked a little. But justified is not ideal, I agree. 

> 
> Side notes set ragged left (rigth justyfied) on left pages are quite difficult to read, I would make them ragged right (left justified) on all pages and.

I guess you want to say [...]  it would [not] break the overall design at all ;) I like the look of ragged outer when just looking at a double page from far. It does make reading more difficult. I still cannot decide. In the end legibility should be more important, so ragged right is better like you said.

> 
> Just wondering, why is Optima-Regular embeded so many times?

We wanted to have a sans serif font for the viewgraphs that matches the Palatino (orig. 1948). So we went for Optima (1952-1955 and also from Hermann Zapf). Wikipedia says "Optima's capitals (like Palatino's) are directly derived from the classic Roman monumental capital model [...]". I think, it does look good together. We also wanted a TeX Gyre font as main font, so that it is available on every system. 

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jano

Aditya Mahajan contextified the github sources. It might be good to download the new stuff. Thanks for the help. 

Andy

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