The TransferLab TeXmacs style

This plugin contains a very simple Tufte-like TeXmacs package in use at appliedAI's Transferlab.

Installation

Clone this repository into $TEXMACS_HOME_PATH/plugins as transferlab. For Linux and MacOS this path is typically ~/.TeXmacs/plugins:

git clone https://github.com/appliedAI-Initiative/tm-transferlab.git 
~/.TeXmacs/plugins/transferlab

For Windows, the path (usually?) is

\Users\YourUser\AppData\Roaming\TeXmacs\plugins

Usage

After installation, use Document -> Style -> Add package to add the package Transferlab -> aai-tfl to your document. There is also a new menu item in Insert -> Notes -> Unnumbered note.

Warning: Cursor navigation is broken (but usable), see below.

Features

• A style with large alternating margins intended for usage with marginal notes. The page size is hardcoded to A4. All pages have 25mm margins at both side. Odd pages have an additional 75mm to the right and even pages to the left. This extra space is used by marginal notes.
• Macros and accompanying scheme code for numbered marginal notes. When using the package, marginal-note is numbered and marginal-note\* unnumbered. They are variants from each other so it is possible to switch easily. As usual the numbered variant is available in the menu. The unnumbered variant can be chosen via the focus menu (search for "structured variants" in the manual).
• Macros for figures completely contained in the margin: marginal-figure and marginal-figure\*.
• Placement of captions in the margin for the standard big-figure and big-figure\*.
• A wide-figure macro extending beyond the body of the text to occupy the full width of the page, minus the exterior margins, and an unnumbered wide-figure\* variant.
• Custom TOC title and spacing for usage inside a marginal-note\*. Use with <marginal-note\*|normal|c|<table-of-contents|toc|>> placed inside the abstract (if you do, you will have to surround it by an em tag to avoid the TOC from displaying emphasized like the abstract).
• A notoc macro to hide content from the table of contents. Use e.g. for
  sub-subsections to avoid too many levels in the marginal TOC.

Known issues

• Cursor navigation is mostly broken for the new markup. It is necessary to deactivate the tags by positioning the cursor to their right and pressing backspace.

• wide-figure uses an ugly hack with the undocumented vphantom and <specific|odd|>, <specific|even|> in order to move the figure to the left in even pages to center it absolutely in the document.

  I haven't found a way of using move with different magnitudes depending either on the page number (which is not available during typesetting) or on the distance to the side of the page. Recall that, during the evaluation of delta-x and delta-y in <move|content|delta-x|delta-y>, the box lengths w, h, l, r, b and t of content are defined. So one could think of using <if|<greater|outer-margin|1l>|<move|wide figure here||some distance to the left>>, but it seems like the box lengths are not available inside the conditional.

• Probably more. Issues and PRs in the GitHub repository.

License

Use at your own risk.