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1. The following headings are not supported subsubsection and subparagraph Converting from book to tufte book The following report class options are unsupported 10pt 11pt 12pt a5paper b5paper executivepaper legalpaper Landscape onecolumn and twocolumn The following headings are not supported subsubsection and subparagraph Troubleshooting and Support Tufte ATEX Website The website for the Tufte IATEX packages is located at http code google com p tufte latex On our website you ll find links to our SVN repository mailing lists bug tracker and documentation Tufte ZIEX Mailing Lists There are two mailing lists for the Tufte IATEX project Discussion list The tufte latex discussion list is for asking ques tions getting assistance with problems and help with troubleshoot ing Release announcements are also posted to this list You can sub scribe to the tufte latex discussion list at http groups google com group tufte latex Commits list The tufte latex commits list is a read only mailing list A message is sent to the list any time the Tufte IATEX code has been updated If you d like to keep up with the latest code devel opments you may subscribe to this list You can subscribe to the tufte latex commits mailing list at http groups google com group tufte latex commits Getting Help If you ve encountered a problem with one of the Tufte IATEX docu ment classes have a question or would2. 2 is an example of the figure environment and figure 3 is an example of the normal figure environment 3 ob ir Lag gt Z O a Y 0 Pd 4 x Figure 1 This is a margin figure The helix is defined by x cos 271z y sin 27z and z 0 2 7 The figure was drawn using Asymptote http asymptote sf net Figure 2 This graph shows y sinx from about x 10 10 Notice that this figure takes up the full page width n 1 n 2 n 3 Mr n 5 Figure 3 Hilbert curves of various o oud degrees n Notice that this figure only As with sidenotes and marginnotes a caption may sometimes require vertical adjustment The caption command now takes a takes up the main textblock width 24 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK second optional argument that enables you to do this by providing a dimension offset You may specify the caption in any one of the following forms caption long caption caption short caption long caption caption offset long caption caption short caption offset long caption A positive offset will push the caption down the page The short caption if provided is what appears in the list of figures tables otherwise the long caption appears there Note that although the arguments short caption and offset are both optional t
3. OF TUFTE S BOOKS 19 Table 1 A list of IATEX font sizes as defined by the Tufte IAIEX document classes 3 Parts and chapters are defined for the tufte book class only Table 2 Heading styles used in Beautiful Evidence 20 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK Table 3 Environment styles used in Environment Font size Notes Beautiful Evidence Body text 10 14X26 pc Block quote 9 12x24pc Block indent left and right by 1 pc Sidenotes 8 10x12pc Sidenote number is set inline followed by word space Captions 8 10x12pc On the Use of the tufte book Document Class The Tufte IAIEX document classes define a style similar to the style Edward Tufte uses in his books and handouts Tufte s style is known for its extensive use of sidenotes tight integration of graphics with text and well set typography This document aims to be at once a demonstration of the features of the Tufte IATEX document classes and a style guide to their use Page Layout Headings This style provides a and B heads that is section and subsection demonstrated above If you need more than two levels of section headings you ll have to define them yourself at the moment there are no pre defined styles for anything below a subsection As Bringhurst points out in The Elements of Typographic Style you should use as many levels of Robert Bringhurst The Elements of Typography Hartley amp Marks 3 1 headings as you need no more and no fewer 5 y edi
4. is called it allocates another 26 slots The morefloats command may only be called two times Calling it a third time will generate this error message See page 24 for more information Warning Option class option is not supported ignoring option This warning appears when you ve tried to use class option with a Tufte JATEX document class but class option isn t supported by the Tufte JATEX document class In this situation class option is ignored Info The symmetric option implies twoside You specified the symmetric document class option This option automatically forces the twoside option as well See page 27 for more information on the symmetric class option Package Dependencies The following is a list of packages that the Tufte JAIEX document classes rely upon Packages marked with an asterisk are optional xifthen ifpdf ifxetex hyperref geometry ragged2e chngpage or changepage paralist textcase soul letterspace setspace natbib and bibentry optparams placeins mathpazo helvet fontenc beramono fancyhdr xcolor textcomp titlesec titletoc TROUBLESHOOTING AND SUPPORT 37 Bibliography Robert Bringhurst The Elements of Typography Hartley amp Marks 3 1 edition 2005 ISBN 0 88179 205 5 Edward R Tufte Envisioning Information Graphics Press Cheshire Connecticut 1990 ISBN 0 9613921 1 8 Edward R Tufte Visual Explanations Graphics Press Cheshire C
5. vehicula augue eu neque Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas Mauris ut leo Cras viverra metus rhoncus sem Nulla et lectus vestibulum urna fringilla ultrices Phasellus eu tellus sit amet tortor gravida placerat Integer sapien est iaculis in pretium quis viverra ac nunc Praesent eget sem vel leo ultrices bibendum Aenean faucibus Morbi dolor nulla malesuada eu pulvinar at mollis ac nulla Curabitur auctor semper nulla Donec varius orci eget risus Duis nibh mi congue eu accumsan eleifend sagittis quis diam Duis eget orci sit amet orci dignissim rutrum Typography Typefaces If the Palatino Helvetica and Bera Mono typefaces are installed this style will use them automatically Otherwise we ll fall back on the Computer Modern typefaces Letterspacing This document class includes two new commands and some im provements on existing commands for letterspacing When setting strings of ALL CAPS or sMALL caps the letter spacing that is the spacing between the letters should be in creased slightly The allcaps command has proper letterspacing 2 Robert Bringhurst The Elements of for strings of FULL CAPITAL LETTERS and the smallcaps Typography Hartley amp Marks 3 1 edition 2005 ISBN 0 88179 205 5 command has letterspacing for SMALL CAPITAL LETTERS These commands will also automatically convert the case of the text to upper or lowercase respectively Th
6. First printing October 2014 Contents The Design of Tufte s Books 15 On the Use of the tufte book Document Class 21 Customizing Tufte LaleX 29 Compatibility Issues 33 Troubleshooting and Support 35 Bibliography 39 List of Figures 1 This is a margin figure The helix is defined by x cos 271Z y sin 27z and z 0 2 7 The figure was drawn using Asymptote http asymptote sf net 23 2 This graph shows y sin x from about x 10 10 Notice that this figure takes up the full page width 23 3 Hilbert curves of various degrees n 23 List of Tables A list of ATEX font sizes as defined by the Tufte IAIRX document classes 2 Heading styles used in Beautiful Evidence 19 3 Environment styles used in Beautiful Evidence 20 4 Here are the dimensions of the various margins used in the Tufte handout class 24 5 Heading levels used with the secnumdepth counter 30 19 Dedicated to those who appreciate ATEX and the work of Edward R Tufte and Donald E Knuth Introduction This sample book discusses the design of Edward Tufte s books and the use of the tufte book and tufte handout document classes Edward R Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Graphics Press Cheshire Connecticut 2001 ISBN 0 9613921 4 2 Edward R Tufte Envisioning Information Graphics Press Cheshire Connecticut 1990 ISBN 0 9613921 1 8 Edward R Tufte Visual Explanations Graphics Press Cheshire Con
7. THE PUBLIC IS MORE FAMILIAR WITH BAD DESIGN THAN GOOD DESIGN IT IS IN EFFECT CONDITIONED TO PREFER BAD DESIGN BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IT LIVES WITH THE NEW BECOMES THREATENING THE OLD REAS SURING PAUL RAND A DESIGNER KNOWS THAT HE HAS ACHIEVED PERFECTION NOT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO ADD BUT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO TAKE AWAY ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY THE DESIGNER OF A NEW SYSTEM MUST NOT ONLY BE THE IMPLEMEN TOR AND THE FIRST LARGE SCALE USER THE DESIGNER SHOULD ALSO WRITE THE FIRST USER MANUAL IF HAD NOT PARTICIPATED FULLY IN ALL THESE ACTIVITIES LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF IMPROVEMENTS WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE BECAUSE WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT OF THEM OR PERCEIVED WHY THEY WERE IMPORTANT DONALD E KNUTH THE TUFTE LATEX DEVELOPERS A TUFTE STYLE BOOK PUBLISHER OF THIS BOOK Copyright 2014 The Tufte LaTeX Developers PUBLISHED BY PUBLISHER OF THIS BOOK TUFTE LATEX GOOGLECODE COM Licensed under the Apache License Version 2 0 the License you may not use this file except in com pliance with the License You may obtain a copy of the License at http www apache org licenses LICENSE 2 0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing software distributed under the License is distributed on an AS IS BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND either express or implied See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License
8. common handout tex If this file exists it will be loaded after all of the common and handout specific code has been read If your customizations apply only to the handout class use this file hook Numbered Section Headings While Tufte dispenses with numbered headings in his books if you require them they can be anabled by changing the value of the secnumdepth counter From the table below select the heading level at which numbering should stop and set the secnumdepth counter to 30 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK that value For example if you want parts and chapters numbered but don t want numbering for sections or subsections use the com mand setcounter secnumdepth 0 The default secnumdepth for the Tufte IATEX document classes is 1 Heading level Value Table 5 Heading levels used with the secnumdepth counter Part in tufte book 1 Part in tufte handout 0 Chapter only in tufte book Section Subsection Subsubsection Paragraph Subparagraph rvNHo Changing the Paper Size The Tufte IAIEX classes currently only provide three paper sizes A4 B5 and us letter To specify a different paper size and or mar gins use the geometrysetup command in the preamble of your document or one of the file hooks The full documentation of the geometrysetup command may be found in the geometry package documentation 1 Hideo Umeki The geometry package http ctan org pkg geometry December 2008 Customi
9. e textsc command has also been redefined to include let terspacing The case of the textsc argument is left as is however This allows one to use both uppercase and lowercase letters THE InITIAL LETTERS Or THE WORDS In THIS SENTENCE ARE CAPI TALIZED ON THE USE OF THE TUFTE BOOK DOCUMENT CLASS 27 Document Class Options The tufte book class is based on the KIFX book document class Therefore you can pass any of the typical book options There are a few options that are specific to the tufte book document class however The a4paper option will set the paper size to A4 instead of the default us letter size The sfsidenotes option will set the sidenotes and title block in a sans serif typeface instead of the default roman The twoside option will modify the running heads so that the page number is printed on the outside edge as opposed to always printing the page number on the right side edge in oneside mode The symmetric option typesets the sidenotes on the outside edge of the page This is how books are traditionally printed but is con trary to Tufte s book design which sets the sidenotes on the right side of the page This option implicitly sets the twoside option The justified option sets all the text fully justified flush left and right The default is to set the text ragged right The body text of Tufte s books are set ragged right This prevents needless hyphen ation and makes it easier to read the text in the slight
10. f a sine wave label fig sinewave setfloatalignment b forces caption to be bottom aligned end figure The syntax of the setfloatalignment command is setfloatalignment pos where pos can be either b for bottom aligned captions or t for top aligned captions Horizontal alignment To override the horizontal alignment use either the forceversofloat or the forcerectofloat command inside of the float environment For example begin figure btp includegraphics sinewave caption This is an example of a sine wave label fig sinewave forceversofloat forces caption to be set to the left of the float end figure 26 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK The forceversofloat command causes the algorithm to assume the float has been placed on a verso page that is a page on the left side of a two page spread Conversely the forcerectofloat com mand causes the algorithm to assume the float has been placed on a recto page that is a page on the right side of a two page spread Full width text blocks In addition to the new float types there is a fullwidth environment that stretches across the main text block and the sidenotes area begin fullwidth Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet end fullwidth Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit Ut purus elit vestibulum ut placerat ac adipiscing vitae felis Curabitur dictum gravida mauris Nam arcu libero nonummy eget consectetuer id vulputate a magna Donec
11. he margin space If this happens you can adjust the vertical position of the sidenote by providing a dimension in the offset argu ment Some examples of valid dimensions are 1 0in 2 54cm 254mm 6 baselineskip If the dimension is positive it will push the sidenote down the page if the dimension is negative it will move the sidenote up the page While both the number and offset arguments are optional they must be provided in order To adjust the vertical position of the side note while leaving the sidenote number alone use the following syntax sidenote offset Sidenote text The empty brackets tell the sidenote command to use the default sidenote number If you only want to change the sidenote number however you may completely omit the offset argument sidenote number Sidenote text The marginnote command has a similar offset argument marginnote offset Margin note text References References are placed alongside their citations as sidenotes as well This can be accomplished using the normal cite command The complete list of references may also be printed automatically by using the bibliography command See the end of this document for an example If you do not want to print a bibliography at the end of your document use the nobibliography command in its place To enter multiple citations at one location you can provide a list of keys separated by commas and the same opti
12. hey must be provided in order Thus to specify an offset without specifying a short caption you must include the first set of empty brackets which tell caption to use the default long caption As an example the caption to figure 3 above was given in the form caption Hilbert curves 6pt Hilbert curves Table 4 shows table created with the booktabs package Notice the lack of vertical rules they serve only to clutter the table s data Margin Length 0000 Paper width 81 2inches handout class Paper height 11 inches Textblock width 61 2 inches Textblock sidenote gutter 3 sinches Sidenote width 2 inches OCCASIONALLY TEX will generate an error message Error Too many unprocessed floats KKIEX tries to place floats in the best position on the page Until it s finished composing the page however it won t know where those positions are If you have a lot of floats on a page including side notes margin notes figures tables etc IATEX may run out of slots to keep track of them and will generate the above error JATEX initially allocates 18 slots for storing floats To work around this limitation the Tufte IATEX document classes provide a morefloats command that will reserve more slots The first time morefloats is called it allocates an additional 34 slots The second time morefloats is called it allocates another 26 slots The morefloats command may only be used two times Calling i
13. ign only shows unnumbered chap ter titles it doesn t show sections or subsections The notoc option will revert to ATEX s roc design The nohyper option prevents the hyperref package from being loaded The default is to load the hyperref package and use the title and author contents as metadata for the generated PDF Customizing Tufte ETEX The Tufte AIEX document classes are designed to closely emulate Tufte s book design by default However each document is different and you may encounter situations where the default settings are insufficient This chapter explores many of the ways you can adjust the Tufte I4TEX document classes to better fit your needs File Hooks If you create many documents using the Tufte IAT X classes it s easier to store your customizations in a separate file instead of copying them into the preamble of each document The Tufte JATEX classes provide three file hooks tufte common local tex tufte book local tex and tufte handout local tex tufte common local tex If this file exists it will be loaded by all of the Tufte I4TEX document classes just prior to any document class specific code If your customizations or code should be included in both the book and handout classes use this file hook tufte book local tex If this file exists it will be loaded after all of the common and book specific code has been read If your customizations apply only to the book class use this file hook tufte
14. like to report a bug please send an email to our mailing list or visit our website To help us troubleshoot the problem more quickly please try to compile your document using the debug class option and send the generated log file to the mailing list with a brief description of the problem 36 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK Errors Warnings and Informational Messages The following is a list of all of the errors warnings and other mes sages generated by the Tufte IATEX classes and a brief description of their meanings Error subparagraph is undefined by this class The subparagraph command is not defined in the Tufte JAIEX docu ment classes If you d like to use the subparagraph command you ll need to redefine it yourself See the Headings section on page 21 for a description of the heading styles availaboe in the Tufte JAIEX document classes Error subsubsection is undefined by this class The subsubsection command is not defined in the Tufte IATRX doc ument classes If you d like to use the subsubsection command you ll need to redefine it yourself See the Headings section on page 21 for a description of the heading styles availaboe in the Tufte TEX document classes Error You may only call morefloats twice See the Tufte LaTeX documentation for other workarounds TEX allocates 18 slots for storing floats The first time morefloats is called it allocates an additional 34 slots The second time morefloats
15. ly narrower column The bidi option loads the bidi package which is used with XqIATEX to typeset bi directional text Since the bidi package needs to be loaded before the sidenotes and cite commands are defined it can t be loaded in the document preamble The debug option causes the Tufte IATEX classes to output debug information to the log file which is useful in troubleshooting bugs It will also cause the graphics to be replaced by outlines The nofonts option prevents the Tufte IATEX classes from auto matically loading the Palatino and Helvetica typefaces You should use this option if you wish to load your own fonts If you re using XAIAIEX this option is implied i e the Palatino and Helvetica fonts aren t loaded if you use XJATEX The nols option inhibits the letterspacing code The Tufte JAIEX classes try to load the appropriate letterspacing package either pdfIEX s letterspace package or the soul package If you re us ing XgIAIEX with fontenc however you should configure your own letterspacing The notitlepage option causes maketitle to generate a title block instead of a title page The book class defaults to a title page and the handout class defaults to the title block There is an analo gous titlepage option that forces maketitle to generate a full title page instead of the title block 28 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK The notoc option suppresses Tufte IATEX s custom table of contents roc design The current roc des
16. n 91 Chartjunk Vibrations Grids and Ducks 107 6 Data Ink Maxim ion and Graphical Design 123 7 Multifinetioning Graphical Elements 139 8 Data Density and Small Multiples 161 9 Aesthetics and Technique in Data Graphical Design 177 Epilogue Designs for the Display of Information 191 Contents ESCAPING FLATLAND 12 Micro Macro READI LAYERING AND SEPARATION 3 SMALL MULTIPLES 67 COLOR AND INFORMATION 81 Contents Images and Quantities 13 Visual and Statistical Thinking Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions 27 Explaining Magie Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design s5 The Smallest Effective Difference 73 Parallelism Repetition and Change Comparison and Surprise 79 Multiples of Space and Time 105 Visual Confections Juxtapositions from the Ocean of the Streams of Story 121 NARRATIVES OF SPACE AND TIME 7 EPILOGUE 121 Contents Mapped Pictures Images as Evidence and Explanation 12 Sparklines Intense Simple Word Sized Graphics 46 Links and Causal Arrows Ambiguity in Action 64 Words Numbers Images Together e The Fundamental Principles of Analytical Design 12 E Corruption in Evidence Presentations Effects Without Causes Cherry Picking Overreach ing Chartjunk and the Rage to Conclude 140 The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint Pitching Out Corrupts Within 156 Sculptural Pedestals Meaning Practice Depedestalization 186 Landsca
17. n option if one is not explicitly specified For example documentclass symmetric justified marginals raggedouter tufte book will set the body text of the document to be fully justified and all of the margin material sidenotes margin notes captions and citations to be flush against the body text with ragged outer edges THE FONT AND STYLE of the marginal material may also be modified using the following commands setsidenotefont font commands setcaptionfont font commands setmarginnotefont font commands setcitationfont font commands The setsidenotefont sets the font and style for sidenotes the setcaptionfont for captions the setmarginnotefont for mar gin notes and the setcitationfont for citations The font com mands can contain font size changes e g footnotesize Huge etc font style changes e g sf family ttfamily itshape etc color changes e g color blue and many other adjustments If for example you wanted the captions to be set in italic sans serif you could use setcaptionfont itshape sffamily Compatibility Issues When switching an existing document from one document class to a Tufte IATEX document class a few changes to the document may have to be made Converting from article to tufte handout The following article class options are unsupported 10pt 11pt 12pt a5paper b5paper executivepaper legalpaper Landscape onecolumn and twocolumn
18. necticut 1997 ISBN 0 9613921 2 6 and Edward R Tufte Beautiful Evidence Graphics Press LLC first edition May 2006 ISBN 0 9613921 7 7 The Design of Tufte s Books THE PAGES of a book are usually divided into three major sections the front matter also called preliminary matter or prelim the main matter the core text of the book and the back matter or end mat ter THE FRONT MATTER of a book refers to all of the material that comes before the main text The following table from shows a list of ma terial that appears in the front matter of The Visual Display of Quan titative Information Envisioning Information Visual Explanations and Beautiful Evidence along with its page number Page numbers that appear in parentheses refer to folios that do not have a printed page number but they are still counted in the page number sequence Books Page content VDQI EI VE BE Blank half titl ji r 6 p page 1 En The contents of this page vary from Frontispiece 2 2 2 2 book to book In VDQI this page is Full title page 3 3 GG 6 blank in EI and VE this page holds Copwightpage O W O A in Contents 5 5 5 6 Dedication 6 7 7 7 Epigraph 8 Introduction 7 9 9 9 The design of the front matter in Tufte s books varies slightly from the traditional design of front matter First the pages in front matter are traditionally numbered with lowercase roman numerals e g i ii iii iv Sec
19. onal vertical offset argument cite Tufte2006 Tufte1990 wcitel offset bibkey bibkey2 This is a margin note Notice that there isn t a number preceding the note and there is no number in the main text where this note was written 7 The first paragraph of this document includes a citation Edward R Tufte Beautiful Evidence Graphics Press LLC first edition May 2006 ISBN 0 9613921 7 7 and Edward R Tufte Envisioning Infor mation Graphics Press Cheshire Connecticut 1990 ISBN 0 9613921 1 8 ON THE USE OF THE TUFTE BOOK DOCUMENT CLASS 23 Figures and Tables Images and graphics play an integral role in Tufte s work In addition to the standard figure and tabular environments this style provides special figure and table environments for full width floats Full page width figures and tables may be placed in figure or table environments To place figures or tables in the margin use the marginfigure or margintable environments as follows see figure 1 begin marginfigure includegraphics helix caption This is a margin figure label fig marginfig end marginfigure The marginfigure and margintable environments accept an op tional parameter offset that adjusts the vertical position of the figure or table See the Sidenotes section above for examples The specifi cations are begin marginfigure offset aderant begin margintable offset endinargint hlet Figure
20. ond the front matter page numbering sequence is usually separate from the main matter page numbering That is the page numbers restart at 1 when the main matter begins In contrast Tufte has enumerated his pages with arabic numerals that share the same page counting sequence as the main matter 16 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK There are also some variations in design across Tufte s four books The page opposite the full title page labeled frontispiece in the above table has different content in each of the books In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information this page is blank in Envisioning Information and Visual Explanations this page holds a frontispiece and in Beautiful Evidence this page contains three epigraphs The dedication appears on page 6 in VDQI opposite the introduc tion and is placed on its own spread in the other books In VE an epigraph shares the spread with the opening page of the introduc tion None of the page numbers folios of the front matter are ex pressed except in BE where the folios start to appear on the dedi cation page THE FULL TITLE PAGE of each of the books varies slightly in design In all the books the author s name appears at the top of the page the title it set just above the center line and the publisher is printed along the bottom margin Some of the differences are outlined in the following table Feature VDQI EI VE BE Author Typeface serif serif serif sans serif Style i
21. onnecticut 1997 ISBN 0 9613921 2 6 Edward R Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Graphics Press Cheshire Connecticut 2001 ISBN 0 9613921 4 2 Edward R Tufte Beautiful Evidence Graphics Press LLC first edition May 2006 ISBN 0 9613921 7 7 Hideo Umeki The geometry package http ctan org pkg geometry December 2008
22. pe Sculptures 196 Typefaces Tufte s books primarily use two typefaces Bembo and Gill Sans Bembo is used for the headings and body text while Gill Sans is used for the title page and opening epigraphs in Beautiful Evidence Since neither Bembo nor Gill Sans are available in default IATEX in stallations the Tufte IATEX document classes default to using Palatino and Helvetica respectively In addition the Bera Mono typeface is used for monospaced type The following font sizes are defined by the Tufte JAIEX classes BTEX size Font size Leading Used for tiny 5 6 sidenote numbers scriptsize 7 8 footnotesize 8 10 sidenotes captions small 9 12 quote quotation and verse environments normalsize 10 14 body text large 11 15 B heads Large 12 16 A heads Toc entries author date LARGE 14 18 handout title huge 20 30 chapter heads Huge 24 36 part titles Headings Tufte s books include the following heading levels parts chapters sections subsections and paragraphs Not defined by default are sub subsections and subparagraphs Heading Style Size Part roman 24 36x40pc Chapter italic 20 30X40pc Section italic 12 16X 26 pc Subsection italic 11 15X26 pc Paragraph italic 10 14 Paragraph Paragraph headings as shown here are introduced by italicized text and separated from the main paragraph by a bit of space Environments The following characteristics define the various environments THE DESIGN
23. t a third time will generate an error message This is because we can t safely allocate many more floats or IAIEX will run out of memory ON THE USE OF THE TUFTE BOOK DOCUMENT CLASS 25 If after using the morefloats command twice you continue to get the Too many unprocessed floats error there are a couple things you can do The FloatBarrier command will immediately process all the floats before typesetting more material Since FloatBarrier will start anew paragraph you should place this command at the begin ning or end of a paragraph The clearpage command will also process the floats before con tinuing but instead of starting a new paragraph it will start a new page You can also try moving your floats around a bit move a figure or table to the next page or reduce the number of sidenotes Each sidenote actually uses two slots After the floats have placed ATEX will mark those slots as unused so they are available for the next page to be composed Captions You may notice that the captions are sometimes misaligned Due to the way IATEX s float mechanism works we can t know for sure where it decided to put a float Therefore the Tufte IAIEX document classes provide commands to override the caption position Vertical alignment To override the vertical alignment use the setfloatalignment command inside the float environment For example begin figure btp includegraphics sinewave caption This is an example o
24. talics italics italics upright caps Size 24 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt Title Typeface serif serif serif sans serif Style upright italics upright upright caps Size 36 pt 48 pt 48pt 36 pt Subtitle Typeface serif Style upright Size 20 pt Edition Typeface sans serif Style upright caps Size 14 pt Publisher Typeface serif serif serif sans serif Style italics italics italics upright caps Size 14 pt 14 pt 14 pt 14 pt THE TABLES OF CONTENTS in Tufte s books give us our first glimpse of the structure of the main matter The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is split into two parts each containing some number of chapters His other three books only contain chapters they re not broken into parts Edward R Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information SECOND EDITION Graphics Press Cheshire Connecticut THE DESIGN OF TUFTE S BOOKS 17 Edward R Tufte Envisioning Information Graphics Press Cheshire Connecticut Edward R Tufte Visual Explanations Images and Quantities Evidence and Narrative Graphics Press Cheshire Connecticut EDWARD R TUFTE BEAUTIFUL EVIDENCE GRAPHICS PRESS LLC 18 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK Contents PARTI GRAPHICAL PRACTICE 1 Graphical Excellence 13 2 Graphical Integrity 53 3 Sources of Graphical Integrity and Sophistication 79 PART II THEORY OF DATA GRAPHICS 4 Data Ink and Graphical Redesig
25. tion 2005 ISBN 0 88179 205 5 The Tufte IATEX classes will emit an error if you try to use subsubsection and smaller headings IN HIS LATER BOOKS Tufte starts each section with a bit of vertical 5 Edward R Tufte Beautiful Evidence Graphics Press LLC first edition May space a non indented paragraph and sets the first few words of the 2006 ISBN 0 9613921 7 7 sentence in SMALL CAPS To accomplish this using this style use the newthought command newthought In his later books Tufte starts Sidenotes One of the most prominent and distinctive features of this style is the extensive use of sidenotes There is a wide margin to provide ample room for sidenotes and small figures Any footnotes will au tomatically be converted to sidenotes If you d like to place ancillary 6 This is a sidenote that was entered using the footnote command 22 A TUFTE STYLE BOOK information in the margin without the sidenote mark the superscript number you can use the marginnote command The specification of the sidenote command is sidenote number offset Sidenote text Both the number and offset arguments are optional If you pro vide a number argument then that number will be used as the sidenote number It will change of the number of the current side note only and will not affect the numbering sequence of subsequent sidenotes Sometimes a sidenote may run over the top of other text or graph ics in t
26. zing Marginal Material Marginal material includes sidenotes citations margin notes and captions Normally the justification of the marginal material follows the justification of the body text If you specify the justified doc ument class option all of the margin material will be fully justified as well If you don t specify the justified option then the marginal material will be set ragged right You can set the justification of the marginal material separately from the body text using the following document class options sidenote marginnote caption citation and marginals Each op tion refers to its obviously corresponding marginal material type The marginals option simultaneously sets the justification on all four marginal material types Each of the document class options takes one of five justification types justified Fully justifies the text sets it flush left and right CUSTOMIZING TUFTE LATEX 31 raggedleft Sets the text ragged left regardless of which page it falls on raggedright Sets the text ragged right regardless of which page it falls on raggedouter Sets the text ragged left if it falls on the left hand verso page of the spread and otherwise sets it ragged right This is useful in conjunction with the symmetric document class option auto If the justified document class option was specified then set the text fully justified otherwise the text is set ragged right This is the default justificatio
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