Using the tufte_template rmarkdown file, I am trying to make a new paragraph (like \newthought{}, but no caps.) I use two spaces, denoted here by *: # Introduction The Tufte-\LaTeX\ [^tufte_latex...

I am working on converting a tufte-LaTeX book to tufte-Bookdown using the tufte and msmbstyle packages. I have a whole bunch of sidenotes and would like the numbering to restart with each chapter s...

I am trying to do something simple: render the tufte options for a book using the basic bookdown example package. I can make the tufte style book fine, but I want it to have the floating TOC and no...

I'm new to Jupyter notebooks, and also new to markdown. It seems like a very powerful tool for sharing blended python code and text. One thing I'd like to be able to do is to use Tufte-style format...

I used Tufte lines with ggplot2 for years now, but I've always wondered if there was an automated way to draw them, so they correspond to axis tics. The usual way I draw them is like this : ggpl...

I'm using the fantastic new bookdown package, right off of Yihui's boilerplate, using the bookdown::tufte_book2() output. The result is lovely, but I'd like the pages to be symmetrical, so that th...

Tufte Sparklines (as illustrated in his Beautiful Evidence) have been replicated in base graphics as part of YaleToolkit and further perfected as a result of this question. Sparklines have also bee...

This is a follow-up to a question I posted earlier (How to center LaTeX xtable output in full text width). I realize that my MWE from this previous post was incomplete. In an effort to make it as m...

I have a csv file that contains data I want to represent using a bump chart (as an example ) http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003nk BUT I need to have some control ove...

I have some data that I've divided into enough groupings that standard boxplots look very crowded. Tufte has his own boxplots in which you basically drop all or half of box, like this: Some samp...

I'm using this function for some quick and easy sparklines with R but I can't seem to work out how to change the font size to avoid ugly overlaps of the y-axis tick labels. Here's my code (see belo...

I must confess that today is my first day using either Sweave or LaTeX. Yes, it's true. I realized today that my "before 40" bucket list was not going to resolve itself in the absence of my involve...