Tufte CSS

To those interested, I made a Markdown-to-Tufte converter a few months ago. [1] Its still very rough around the edges but you can easily use the Docker image to convert a bunch of Markdown documents into a Tufte-style book. Its mostly based off jez/tufte-pandoc-css [2] which did the heavy lifting of converting the Tufte CSS to be used with pandoc. [1]: https://github.com/schollz/markdown2tufte [2]: https://github.com/jez/tufte-pandoc-css

> Although paper handouts obviously have a pure white background, the web is better served by the use of slightly off-white and off-black colors. Tufte CSS uses #fffff8 and #111111 because they are nearly indistinguishable from their ‘pure’ cousins, but dial down the harsh contrast. I never got this argument. I can see an argument for "We need to reserve some headroom and footroom for Darker Than Common Black and Brighter Than Common White for occasional emphasis scenarios. Or, for…

Since last time this was discussed a few months back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10012360), this became an official Edward Tufte project, rather than just being inspired by his work.

This gets shared on here from time to time and while I love it (and Tufte), it really falls short on mobile devices. When the page is sufficiently narrow, revealing sidebar items is done via small clickable elements: if the user has never seen those before, I expect they will miss out on them. Note that this includes both footnotes and also figure captions, which are often not "optional content" as are many of the sidenotes. My own blog /…