Suggestions for a presentation (paper) type document that can handle complexity

Uwe Ziegenhagen ziegenhagen at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 07:08:31 CEST 2019


Hi Gordon,

what I would recommend:

a) Ignore the TeX Debian provides. It's update frequency and packaging are
AFAIK different from the TeX Live TUG provides.

b) Regarding the Tufte package: Check if it fulfills your requirements
especially with other packages you need. Friends of mine had used it and
were not really satisfied.

Uwe

Am Sa., 13. Juli 2019 um 04:37 Uhr schrieb Gordon Haverland <
ghaverla at materialisations.com>:

> Greetings
>
> I need to start making for lack of a better description,
> advertising/marketing documents.  Being able to convert to some kind of
> HTML might be useful.
>
> Whenever I go to write something "important", it quickly turns into an
> encyclopaedia.  I can't help it; brain dumping is something which comes
> naturally to people affected by autism.
>
> In the past, I have typically used the article style and used hyperref
> to handle complexity.  Well, at least as a PDF.  To print it out, paper
> is a linear medium and complexity just seems to need lots of levels of
> headings.  Maybe you have better ideas?
>
> I sat down tonight, and started up with LyX, and then quickly closed it
> because I just see no way to make this work there.  I might as well go
> back to emacs and do everything there.
>
> Tufte looks like an interesting concept.  I am running Devuan (a fork
> of Debian Linux), and the Tufte project isn't a standard part of what
> Debian provides.  Or an optional part for that matter.
>
> It seems that TeX on Debian is now based on TeX Live.  And so tlmgr
> might be what one has to use.
>
> How does a person install something like Tufte on Debian using tlmgr?
> Do you have suggestions for alternative packages?
>
> Have a great day!
> Gord
>
>

-- 
Dr. Uwe Ziegenhagen
0179-7476050
<http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
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