John Kane wrote:
> I know that there was a problem with the Tufte handout a few months ago but
> between being distracted by other matters and the recent loss of the
> mailing list I don't know what is happening at the moment.
>
> I just did an upgrade to 1.6.6.1 and reinstalled Mixtex and I am getting
> some weird results with tufte outlne. If I have nothing but standard text
> in a document I get output in Yap. Add a title and Lyx bombs. And the
> same thing happens with Book (Tufte).
>
> It is not a serious matter at the moment, I just wanted to show someone how
> the handout would look but any current information would be appreciated.
I set up the layout some time ago (but never used it myself). Eventually, Uwe
Stöhr took over maintenance and improved the layout, but I do not think he is
using Tufte layouts himself much either.
The problem with the tufte class is that it is very much in a flux. Now they
seem to have changed the class so that titling information need to be put into
the preamble. It is really very hard to provide sensible support for such a
dynamic class.
For the time being, you can move the title and author information from the
document body to the preamble, in the form of:
\title{An Example of the Usage of the Tufte-Handout Style}
\author{Tufte-LaTe{}X Developers and The Ly{}X Team}
At the beginning of the document, put
\maketitle
in TeX-mode.
The same problem applies to the tufte-book class.
Jürgen
