The tufte-latex package is a template implementing the tufte book style on latex. When I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 my old teTex configuration became obsolete. I replaced it with the newest MacTex 2008 package including TexLive 2008. As a GUI I chose to continue using the TexShop application, which I have gotten used to in my previous work.
Unfortunately the tufte-latex templates did not work initially in this configuration, which was kind of a mystery to me at the beginning, since the TexLive distribution included all required packages for tufte-latex. After a quick search I came across a discussion thread on the tufte-latex problem on 10.5 that got me in the right direction.
What I have done to make it work is as follows:
- Open up tufte-handout.cls in a text editor.
- Swap lines 294 and 295, so that it becomes:
\newcommand{\footnotelayout}{\@tufteh@marginfont\@tufteh@justification} \RequirePackage[side,multiple]{footmisc} - Typeset tufte-handout.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Andreas Loeffler Oct 22, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Has anyone contacted you on behalf of that problem? There is a discussion on the tufte-latex-group on the same problem but they did not come up with any solution (http://groups.google.com/group/tufte-latex/browse_thread/thread/703dd8eaa6a50d21?hl=de#). I still get error-messages about \smallcaps undefined and will try to find a minimal example producing that error. The strange thing is that this only happens with texlive2008 but not with miktex 2.7.
2 Andreas Loeffler Oct 22, 2009 at 10:13 pm
OK, the bug is solved in tufte-latex 3.0.0 (which was not in Texlive2008, even after updating)…
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