As discussed in the Book Design thread of Edward Tufte's Ask E.T Forum, this is beginning of a Tufte-inspired LaTeX layout to produce handouts and scientific notes like,

• CFD: A Castle in the Sand?
• Computational Simulations and the Scientific Method
• Matching Multistage Schemes to Viscous Flow
• Efficient Construction of Discrete Adjoint Operators on Unstructured Grids by Using Complex Variables

To the extent possible, this project will include LaTeX source for the above examples.

LaTeX packages required:

• geometry
• ragged2e
• chngpage
• paralist
• textcase
• footmisc
• natbib and bibentry
• placeins
• caption
• fancyhdr

Optional LaTeX packages:

• microtype or soul
• palatino and mathpazo
• beramono

Contributors welcome to finish cooking this half-baked cake!

Download the latest release, browse the source, join the mailing list, submit patches, and/or write some wiki pages.