tufte-book VDQI title/toc style
Sebastian Nowozin
Hello Kevin,
thanks a lot for the new tufte-book style, I updated to 3.0 and are
generally happy with it.
I prefer the VDQI style shown in the sample-book.pdf file for both the
title page layout as well as the table of contents (just a personal
preference of serif fonts). Is there an easy way to obtain these
layouts with v3?
Another question; I am currently writing my PhD thesis using the
tufte-book style and hope to eventually print the book in US trade paper
size (6x9", this is 15.24x22.86cm). Is this common book size already
supported by the tufte-style or do I have to adjust sizes and margins
myself?
Thanks,
Sebastian
Kevin Godby
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Sebastian Nowozin <now...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Kevin,
>
> thanks a lot for the new tufte-book style, I updated to 3.0 and are
> generally happy with it.
>
> I prefer the VDQI style shown in the sample-book.pdf file for both the
> title page layout as well as the table of contents (just a personal
> preference of serif fonts). Is there an easy way to obtain these
> layouts with v3?
Not at the moment. I just whipped up a couple quick .tex files and
manually created the title page and the table of contents to generate
the illustrations. I've attached a copy of the source files i created
-- I make no guarantees as to their accuracy or anything.
To achieve the effect, you'd have to override the \maketitlepage
command. (Just do a \renewcommand{\maketitlepage}{...code goes
here...}.) Then drop in the code to make the title page look the way
you want.
For the TOC, you can use the \titlecontents command (see the
documentation for the titlesec or titletoc package for details) to set
up the appearance.
> Another question; I am currently writing my PhD thesis using the
> tufte-book style and hope to eventually print the book in US trade paper
> size (6x9", this is 15.24x22.86cm). Is this common book size already
> supported by the tufte-style or do I have to adjust sizes and margins
> myself?
It's not supported. You can use the \geometry{...} command to set the
paper size, margins, etc. for your book. You'll also need to
recalculate some lengths that were calculated in the class (before you
changed the margin values). I'll see if I can gather up those
calculations and put them into a utility command like
\TufteRecalculateSomething so you can just change the paper size,
margins, etc. then run that command to have it recalculate the
internal values it uses. (The internal values are used for things
like the fullwidth environment, and placing figure captions).
--Kevin
Sebastian Nowozin
Kevin,
thanks a lot for all the work and support you put into this, it is
really appreciated!
Sebastian
Bil Kleb
Ditto!
I hereby completely turn the project over to you!
Regards,
--
Bil Kleb
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov
http://twitter.com/bil_kleb
Kevin Godby
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Sebastian Nowozin<now...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another question; I am currently writing my PhD thesis using the
> tufte-book style and hope to eventually print the book in US trade paper
> size (6x9", this is 15.24x22.86cm). Is this common book size already
> supported by the tufte-style or do I have to adjust sizes and margins
> myself?
I've added code to the svn version of the Tufte-LaTeX classes so that
you *should* be able to use the \geometry{...} command (see the
geometry package docs [http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry] for details) to
set your paper size, and margins. The extra calculations required
will be performed automatically at \begin{document}.
Please let me know if this works for you or if you run into any
problems with it.
Thanks!
--Kevin