tufte-latex: excluding the sidenotes margin from certain pages

Question

Excluding Margins from Pages

I'm looking for a way to exclude the sidenotes margin from certain pages in my document (notably the frontmatter and the part header page). For instance, in Example 1, I am trying to have there be no sidenotes margin and instead just have the table of contents extend to the full page width (like in regular documents).

Example 1: The table of contents with sidenotes margin.

Example 2: I don't want the thick margins here. Instead, I want the part heading to be centered on the page like in regular LaTeX documents.

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Switching Margin Alternating Order

Also, I'm wondering whether I can reverse the sides of the margins; that is, I would like odd-numbered pages to have margins on the RHS and even-numbered pages to have LHS margins.

Example 3: Reverse this

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Minimal working example of current setup

\documentclass[twoside, symmetric]{tufte-book}
\usepackage{lipsum}    
\usepackage{changepage}

\title{A Fantastic Title}
\author{Guy Fawkes}

% chapter header style code
\newcommand{\lmr}{\fontfamily{lmr}\selectfont} % Latin Modern Roman

% add numbers to chapters, sections, subsections
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}

\newcommand{\justifyifodd}{
    \checkoddpage
    \ifoddpage\raggedleft\else\fi
}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
    {\normalfont\Huge\bfseries\justifyifodd}
    {\lmr\fontsize{86}{0}\selectfont \thechapter}
    {60pt}{}
    [\vspace{0.5ex}\titlerule]


\titlespacing*{\chapter}
  {0pt}
  {0pt}
  {1.5em}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\cleardoublepage
\mainmatter

\part{The First Part}
\chapter{The First Chapter}
\lipsum[1-7]

\chapter{The second chapter}
\lipsum[7-10]

\end{document}

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Reference

Here are a few examples of what I am trying to achieve.

from Concrete Mathematics

Answer 1

It should be noted that Concrete Mathematics uses its own book design, which is very different from Tufte’s book. So, if your ultimate goal is to typeset your book as Concrete Mathematics, then I don’t think using tufte-book is a good idea.

I think you have some misconceptions regarding the layout of Concrete Mathematics:

• The table of contents starts in an even numbered page: This is rather unusual for a book, although it is not uncommon for old books (I guess paper costs much in the old days).
• The actual printed page sizes are marked by the box-drawing characters ┌ and ┐: After realizing the true page layout, it becomes very clear that the table of contents is NOT horizontally centered!
• The body text block is closer to the left margin on even pages and closer to the right margin on odd pages: This implies that the margin notes (i.e., side notes) are squeezed near the inner margins of the book.
• If the margin notes are near the area for bookbinding, then how am I supposed to read them? Well, if we look closely, we’ll find out that the margin notes in Concrete Mathematics are largely puns and jokes (sometimes quotes). I hope this clarifies my comment on switching margin notes: For most scientific books, you put actual important information in the margin notes, which are usually near the outer margins.

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Making some contents horizontally centered in tufte-book

Warning: If you ignored my preceding explanations and insisted on getting contents on certain pages horizontally centered, then these pages would look as if they were torn off from a separate book. Please don’t do this.

The following solution exploits \newgeometry and \restoregeometry.

• The default page layout settings can be found in tufte-common.def. We can change the left= to hmargin= and make this into a macro \mynewgeometry via \newgeometry.
• Use the \mynewgeometry and \restoregeometry pair wherever necessary.
• tufte-book doesn’t reformat \part. So we can patch \part according to its default book/report definition in classes.dtx.

MWE

Please note the comments I’ve added using % <-- in the following code.

\documentclass[symmetric]{tufte-book}% <-- no need for `twoside' if `symmetric' is used
\usepackage{lipsum}
%\usepackage{changepage}% <-- not needed

\title{A Fantastic Title}
\author{Guy Fawkes}

% chapter header style code
\newcommand{\lmr}{\fontfamily{lmr}\selectfont} % Latin Modern Roman

% add numbers to chapters, sections, subsections
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}

\newcommand{\justifyifodd}{% <-- added `%', but this command is useless
    \checkoddpage
    \ifoddpage\raggedleft\else\fi
}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
    {\normalfont\Huge\bfseries\justifyifodd}% <-- in a book, chapter should always start in odd page
    {\lmr\fontsize{86}{0}\selectfont\thechapter}% <-- mixing Latin Modern Roman with Palatino, are you sure?
    {60pt}{}
    [\vspace{0.5ex}\titlerule]

\titlespacing*{\chapter}
  {0pt}% <-- normally this should be a `glue': https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/64759/164314
  {0pt}% <-- normally this should be a `glue': https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/64759/164314
  {1.5em}

% my implementations
\makeatletter
% create `\mynewgeometry'
\newcommand{\mynewgeometry}{%
  \newgeometry{letterpaper,hmargin=1in,top=1in,headsep=2\baselineskip,textwidth=26pc,marginparsep=2pc,marginparwidth=12pc,textheight=44\baselineskip,headheight=\baselineskip}
  \ifthenelse{\boolean{@tufte@afourpaper}}
    {\newgeometry{a4paper,hmargin=24.8mm,top=27.4mm,headsep=2\baselineskip,textwidth=107mm,marginparsep=8.2mm,marginparwidth=49.4mm,textheight=49\baselineskip,headheight=\baselineskip}}
    {}
  \ifthenelse{\boolean{@tufte@bfivepaper}}
    {\newgeometry{paperwidth=176mm,paperheight=250mm,hmargin=14.66mm,top=13.88mm,textwidth=102.66mm,marginparsep=7.33mm,marginparwidth=36.66mm,textheight=38\baselineskip,includehead}}
    {}
}
% patch `\part' and `\@endpart'
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\preto\part{\mynewgeometry}
\appto\@endpart{\restoregeometry}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\mynewgeometry% <-- used here
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\restoregeometry% <-- used here
%\cleardoublepage% <-- not needed, since `\mainmatter' already has one
\mainmatter

\part{The First Part}
\chapter{The First Chapter}
\lipsum[1-7]

\chapter{The second chapter}
\lipsum[7-10]

\end{document}

Output

I cannot reproduce the “hanging” table of contents you showed (you must have other code in your preamble). But it is horizontally centered as requested.

Please don’t do this.

Answer 2

I am using this to generate a Tufte-like layout using memoir. I defined a FullPage environment to use when needed.

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{calc,environ,lipsum}

\setstocksize{9.25in}{6.125in}
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{0.75in}{*}{1}
\setlrmarginsandblock{0.5in}{*}{4.6}
\newlength{\margindiff}\setlength{\margindiff}{\foremargin - \spinemargin}
\newlength{\mpsep}\setlength{\mpsep}{2em}
\newlength{\mwidth}\setlength{\mwidth}{\margindiff -\mpsep}
\setmarginnotes{\mpsep}{\mwidth}{2.5\baselineskip}
\checkandfixthelayout

\NewEnviron{FullPage}{%
    \begin{adjustwidth*}{0em}{-\margindiff}
    \BODY
    \end{adjustwidth*}
    }

\begin{document}

\begin{FullPage}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
\vfill
Hello World!
\vfill

\today
\end{center}
\end{FullPage}

\clearpage

\lipsum[1-10]

\end{document}

Is this example useful enough to serve as a counter to Tufte or the KOMA-Script?