Exploring small changes with big effects

[Eduardo Mercovich]

Dear all.

I'm incredibly happy with tufte-latex. :D

Sadly, as the documentation from sample-book says: "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 reassuring." (Paul Rand).

So I'm exploring some small variations that could make the documents
look more familiar, or closer, to their corporate/institutional look
which is more "modern" (let's not discuss what modern can imply for
everyone). ;)

Something I've found is that a small change in the basic font family
makes a long way for that. While I will refuse to use Verdana, Fira sans
is not at all a bad option and only takes 1 line:
\usepackage[sfdefault,light,semibold]{FiraSans}

(Latex rocks!). ;)

And while I prefer by far ragged-right, justification seems to make for
some people the document more "formal" or "neat" (again, I'm not going
into that debate, we are in this group because we agree on what is good
and timeless typographic design).

When changing fonts in this way, the headings in italics and regular
weight may be not so appropiate. So the question is: where do I change
the headings style?

In this case it makes double sense to invest on this customizations:

+ I'll be making a few not so short reports, and...

+ the Latex learning will stay here forever. :)

Again, thank you very much for sharing your time and dedication.

Best regards...


--
eduardo mercovich

Donde se cruzan tus talentos
con las necesidades del mundo,
ahí está tu vocación.

[Kevin Godby]

Hello, Eduardo.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Eduardo Mercovich
<edu...@mercovich.net> wrote:
> When changing fonts in this way, the headings in italics and regular
> weight may be not so appropiate. So the question is: where do I change
> the headings style?

Tufte-LaTeX uses the titlesec package to format its headings. If you
look in tufte-common.def, circa line 1611, youll find a number of
\titleformat macro calls. Those, along with \titlespacing, define the
heading styles.

You can copy and paste those commands to either your document or to a
new file named tufte-common-local.tex (which will be loaded
automatically if it exists) and modify them to achieve the desired
style.

—Kevin

[Eduardo Mercovich]

Hello Kevin.

>> [...] the question is: where do I change the headings style?

> Tufte-LaTeX uses the titlesec package to format its headings. If you
> look in tufte-common.def, circa line 1611, youll find a number of
> \titleformat macro calls. Those, along with \titlespacing, define the

> heading styles. [...]

It worked as a charm, just had to take out the \itshape.

Each of this points not only makes the result more as it should be, but
much better, shows me bit by bit the dao of latex.

Thank you very much. :)