LaTeX papers¶

paper workspaces use tufte-latex (tufte-handout or tufte-book) with the team package standards/latex/teamtufte.sty on top.

../_images/handout-page1.png — First page of a `tufte-handout` workspace.¶

Typography¶

Element	Font	Size
Body	Pagella (Palatino clone, `newpxtext`)	10 pt / 14 pt leading (tufte-latex native)
Math	`newpxmath` (matched to Pagella)	10 pt
Sidenotes, margin notes	Pagella	8 pt (tufte default)
Captions	Nimbus Sans (`helvet`)	10 pt
Plot and diagram text	Nimbus Sans	10 pt
Code	Bera Mono, scaled 0.85

Why these: Pagella is Tufte-latex’s own default family and has complete matching math (including bold math and blackboard bold) under pdfLaTeX and, via TeX Gyre Pagella Math, under LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX. Nimbus Sans is a free, metric-compatible Helvetica that installs easily on Windows, and both fonts come from URW, so they sit well together.

The body uses tufte-latex’s native 10 pt size and page geometry, so everything else in the class (margin notes, running heads, full-width figures) behaves as its authors designed. Captions are set in 10 pt Nimbus Sans so they match plot text.

Layout¶

Letter paper, tufte-latex’s native geometry: 1 in left margin, 26 pc (312 pt) text block, 2 pc gap, 12 pc (144 pt) margin column. Defined in standards/latex/layout.tex, shared with teamplot.

Writing in the Tufte style¶

Main argument goes here.\sidenote{Numbered aside, set in the margin.}
\marginnote{Unnumbered remark in the margin.}
Results agree with prior work.\cite{smith2024}   % a numbered sidenote, after punctuation

Need	Use	`teamplot.figure(...)`
Normal figure (caption in margin)	`\begin{figure}`	`"column"`
Small figure in the margin	`\begin{marginfigure}`	`"margin"`
Wide figure	`\begin{figure*}`	`"full"`
Table	`\begin{table}` + `booktabs`
Units	`\SI{30}{\minute}`, `\si{\degree\celsius}`
Cross-reference	`\cref{fig:bias}` → “Fig. 1”
Placeholder	`\todo{cite}` → red margin note
Bibliography	`\teambibliography{references}` (already in `main.tex`)	hidden until the first `\cite`

Always include figures with \teamfig{name} and put settings in the caption with \figsettingsof{name}:

\begin{figure}
  \teamfig{bias_vs_temperature}
  \caption{Gyro bias rises roughly linearly with temperature.
    \figsettingsof{bias_vs_temperature}}
  \label{fig:bias}
\end{figure}

\teamfig[<includegraphics keys>]{name} uses figures/annotated/name.pdf if present, else figures/name.pdf; includes it at natural size, capped at \linewidth; and warns on stale annotations (Annotating figures by hand). \figsettingsof{name} reads figures/name.settings.tex and shows a red marker if it’s missing.

Building¶

cd paper
latexmk main.tex      # pdfLaTeX, runs BibTeX as needed
latexmk -c            # clean auxiliary files

paper/.latexmkrc adds ../standards/latex// to the TeX search path and lets BibTeX’s “no citations yet” error pass on fresh documents.

Overleaf: upload the workspace, set the main document to paper/main.tex, and copy standards/latex/* and figures/ alongside. Overleaf runs latexmk with the same .latexmkrc.

`article` vs `report`¶

article → tufte-handout: title block, abstract, sections.
report → tufte-book: title page, table of contents, front matter, chapters, alternating (two-sided) margins. Use it for dissertation-style writeups.