Tufte CSS
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Edward Tufte uses a distinctive style in his handouts: simple, with well-set
typography, extensive sidenotes, and tight integration of graphics and
charts. `tufte-css` brings that style to HTML documents.
This project is directly inspired by and
based on [Tufte-LaTeX](https://tufte-latex.github.io/tufte-latex/) and the
[R Markdown Tufte Handout](http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/examples/tufte-handout.pdf).
Getting Started
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The file *index.html* is a self-describing demonstration document that walks through
the features of Tufte CSS. The live version at
[https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/](https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/)
is the best overview of the project.
To use Tufte CSS, just copy `tufte.css` and the `et-book` font
directory to your project and add the following to your HTML doc's
head block:
```html
```
All other files in the repository can be ignored, as they are merely
used by the demonstration document.
Contributing
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If you notice something wrong or broken, let us know by opening an
issue. **Pull requests are very welcome**.
For best results, keep pull requests to one change at a time, and
test your fix or new functionality against `index.html` on screens as
small as an iPhone 4 and as big as, well, as big as you use
normally. (If you don't have a mobile device handy, fake different
devices with your browser's developer tools.) See the Issues page, especially
[Help Wanted](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/labels/help%20wanted),
for opportunities to contribute. Keep our style guide in mind:
CSS Style Guide
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>Every major open-source project has its own style guide: a set of
>conventions (sometimes arbitrary) about how to write code for that
>project. It is much easier to understand a large codebase when all the
>code in it is in a consistent style.
> -- [Google Style Guide](https://github.com/google/styleguide)
Tufte CSS aims for clarity, concision, and uniformity. Here's a basic
example of our CSS conventions:
```css
p { font-size: 1.4rem;
line-height: 2rem;
margin-top: 1.4rem;
margin-bottom: 1.4rem;
width: 55%;
padding-right: 0;
vertical-align: baseline; }
@media screen and (max-width: 600px) { p { width: 70%; }}
@media screen and (max-width: 400px) { p { width: 90%; }}
```
Notice the single spacing between most syntactic markers, the single
blank lines between unrelated blocks, and the absence of line breaks
after an open-paren and before end-parens. Notice also that these
rules change slightly for media queries.
Contributors
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- Dave Liepmann (creator, project maintainer, design)
- Edward Tufte (editing, direction, design)
- [Adam Schwartz](https://github.com/adamschwartz) (ET Book font, descender-clearing link underlines)
- [Clay Harmon](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/commits/master?author=clayh53) (media queries, rem units)
- [Linjie Ding](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/commits/master?author=pyrocat101) (italic typeface)
- [Stephen A Thomas](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/commits/master?author=sathomas) (automagically numbered sidenotes)
- [Ben Newman](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/pull/9) (sidenote numbering style)
- [Kevin Godby](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/commits/master?author=godbyk) (booktabs tables)
- [James Kolce](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/commits/master?author=jameskolce) (sidenote fixes)
- [Chris MacKay](https://github.com/crmackay) (sidenote toggling on small screens)
- [Paul Rodriguez](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/commits/master?author=ruricolist)
(sidenote style tweaks)
- [Claudiu-Vlad Ursache](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/commits/master?author=ursachec) (HTML5 conformity)
License
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Released under the MIT license. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/blob/gh-pages/LICENSE).