A Tufte Inspired Manuscript

Introduction

Edward R. Tufte, godfather of charts, slayer of slide decks. Art by Fred Guth and MidJourney.

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics and Computer Sciente at Yale University, Edward Tufte is an expert in the presentation of informational.

Tufte’s style is known for extensive use of sidenotes, integration of graphics with text and typography¹.

¹ Tufte’s website: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Minard’s map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign, described by Edward Tufte as “may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn” Tufte (2001, dy.–11cm).

Usage

Arbitrary Margin Content

You can include anything in the margin by places the class .column-margin on the element. See an example on the right about the first fundamental theorem of calculus.

We know from the first fundamental theorem of calculus that for \(x\) in \([a, b]\):

\[\frac{d}{dx}\left( \int_{a}^{x} f(u)\,du\right)=f(x).\]

Arbitrary Full Width Content

Any content can span to the full width of the page, simply place the element in a div and add the class column-page-right. For example, the following code will display its contents as full width.

::: {.fullwidth}
Any _full width_ content here.
:::

Below is an example:

A full width figure.

Source: Article Notebook

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Quarto and Typst teams for these wonderful tools. This format is made possible by Quarto’s community. Special thanks to:

• Mickaël Canouil (@mcanouil);
• Gordon Woodhull (@gordonwoodhull);
• Charles Teague (@dragonstyle);
• Raniere Silva (@rgaiacs); and
• Christophe Dervieux (@cderv)

References

Tufte, Edward R. 2001. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.