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Joe13:03:29

Is there a name for the layout where the 'main' text is in a column taking up about 60% of the page, and there's a 'gutter' which is used for images, tables, footnotes etc.? Like in https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/tufte-powerpoint.pdf example (there is also meta-example on page labelled 10 :))

p-himik14:03:33

This is not a scientific paper though, and the quoted "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" is not a scientific paper either. It might depend on the area, but I don't remember seeing such a layout in proper scientific papers that I had to deal with - usually it's either one column or two equally wide columns of linear material.

Joe14:03:54

Fair enough, I've removed the mention of scientific papers from the question

p-himik14:03:29

Asked a friend that knows a lot about LaTeX - apparently, the word "tufte" that's in the name of the PDF file does actually name that layout. :) Or rather, it names the LaTeX package that produces such a layout: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tufte-latex

Joe14:03:50

Oh cool! I guess Tufte (and Feynman) were the originators of the style? Thanks very much!

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Joe14:03:43

That link has a good https://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tufte-latex/sample-book.pdf, which seems to be called "sidenotes", as opposed to footnotes

p-himik14:03:59

Don't know about the originators, but just in case - there's also marginnote package that produces similar results.

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Jan ariane17:03:34

how someone manages data which are stored on multiple clouds on local drive? i.e. some data stored at google drive, some at dropbox/other cloud storage, how all of those data is stored in local drive? separate folder for each cloud service? to avoid duplication & manage categorization

p-himik17:03:26

> separate folder for each cloud service? Yes.