{"repo":"eddelbuettel/tint","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/eddelbuettel/tint","clone":"git clone https://github.com/eddelbuettel/tint.git","description":"Tint is not Tufte","language":"R","stars":279,"topics":["r-package","vignette","cran","markdown"],"license":null,"category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"tint: Tint is not Tufte Motivation The (html and pdf) styles provided by the tufte package make it very easy and convenient to create documents in the celebrated style of Edward Tufte. The clear layout, focused use of white space and unparalleled use of the margin for complementary information, including graphs, offer a novel and very valuable resource for typesetting. Yet at the same time, not everybody is a fan of the yellow tint, and the fonts. I had been looking for a while for an alternative, and came across envisioned css by Jef Lippiat. It gets a few things very right: use of the beautiful Roboto Condensed font along with a closer-to-white background. So I mixed this with the code framework provided by JJ and Yihui to make it an RMarkdown template you can use just by installing this package. Among the small changes I made were the removal of italics in subheaders and the title. Similarly, LaTeX styles exists and the tufte package supports both pdf handouts and a book format. We first supported the pdf handout output only, and added support for a pdf book format in release 0.1.0. Example HTML A quick screenshot of the html variant is below: and the full underlying document is available too. Its sources are included in the packages as html/skeleton.Rmd. PDF Another screenshot shows the pdf handout variant: and its underlying sources are included as pdf/skeleton.Rmd. Here is a screenshot of the book format (which was added with release 0.1.0), showing a chapter-opening pa","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/eddelbuettel","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/eddelbuettel/tint/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}