Tufte Style in Tiddlywiki for Better Readability

Right. Very Mohfte and not Tufte.

Thank you, Saq. Certainly, your syntax is significantly more refined than mine.

Could this used the already-defined-in-HTML tag <aside>? It looks like it’s used in exactly the same way as the <sidenote> ... </sidenote> suggestion, or does using existing html tags make it trickier?

(noting that I only learned about the aside tag yesterday while looking for something else and am watching this Tufte thread with interest, but not yet played with a Tufte/TW setup)

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Absolutely! We only need to use it like <aside class="sidenote">...</aside>. This is because users may have their own use of aside.
Give a try, it works for your proposal.

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Hi @Mohammad,

Just having a poke at my wiki and I noticed that the Tufte wasn’t being tufty.

I Have tried dropping your ‘Tufte Styles’ Link into an empty wiki and tiddlywiki.com the only side notes which appear are denoted by <div class="marginnote"> the other methods don’t.

Never mind. The tiddler tufte-lite/procedures also needs to be exported.

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Not surprising since it never was a Tufte.
And never could have been.

It is a decent design approach.
It is a Mohfte.
It’s author @Mohammad is a nice bloke.
Happy updates!

Ok… I’ll bite…

Why, when based on the style of of Tufte can it no be Tufte and what is Mohfte or is that just a word you’ve coined to mean ‘Tufte like or haveing some aspects of Tufte while not being Tufte’?

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It is a portmanteau (word blending) of “MOHammad” and “tuFTE”.

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Of course it is! Silly me.

Just another addendum that just caught me out. In order for the Mohfte style to be applied the tiddler needs a class field containing tufte-lite to apply the Mohfte style.

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Great idea, @Mohammad – seeing this pop up in the recent topics inspired me to play around with a similar concept that allows one to easily add notes and figures as they’re reading :slight_smile:

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