[Tex/LaTex] margin location in tufte-class

double-sidedmarginstufte

By default I have observed that the margin is always on same side of the page, i.e irrespective of the page being the left page or right page the margin is always on the right hand side of the page. Is there a way to make the margin on left page appear on the left and margin on the right page appear on the right?

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Use the symmetric option of the class.

\documentclass[twoside,symmetric]{tufte-book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
test\sidenote{this}
\lipsum
test\sidenote{that} 
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Place figures side by side, spill into outer margin

Use either the ifoddpage or the changepage package to check on which page the figure is. It needs two latex runs to determine the correct page number. If the changepage package is used it should be loaded with the strict option, because otherwise the used page number might not be correct in all cases (when TeX reads more material to look for a page break etc.). Alternatively the macro \strictpagecheck can be placed before \checkoddpage.

The trick is to use \makebox[\textwidth] so that the box is officially only \textwidth long which also avoids "Overfull hbox" errors. Then the second optional argument of \makebox is used to align it either to the right or left:

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{ifoddpage}
%or: \usepackage[strict]{changepage}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[h]
  %\setcapwidth{0.6\textwidth}
  \checkoddpage
  \edef\side{\ifoddpage l\else r\fi}%
  \makebox[\textwidth][\side]{%
    \begin{minipage}[t]{0.59\textwidth}
      \centering
      \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{gfx-1}
      \caption{Caption 1}
    \end{minipage}%
    \hfill
    \begin{minipage}[t]{0.59\textwidth}
      \centering
      \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{gfx-2}
      \caption{Caption 2}
      \label{fig:free-lunch}
    \end{minipage}%
  }%
\end{figure}
\end{document}

I have something like this as an example on my website. See also this TeX FAQ from where I got the idea.

[Tex/LaTex] How to reverse margin of tufte-book

Is your thesis written in an RTL language? if it is and assumning, twoside option is used and bidi package is loaded, then bidi package takes care of this and puts margins in RTL mode in odd pages on LHS and in RTL mode in even pages, it puts margins on the RHS. Here is an example:

....
\usepackage{ptext}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\begin{document}
\ptext[1]
\begin{marginfigure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{demo}
\caption{این یک شکل است}
\end{marginfigure}
\ptext
\end{document}

and here is the output:

enter image description here

And the same example using bidi package and latin characters:

...
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage[RTLdocument]{bidi}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{marginfigure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{demo}
\caption{This is a figure}
\end{marginfigure}
\lipsum
\end{document}

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