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date: 2022-12-02T20:30:41+01:00
context: "https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2022/12/02/grail-pen-acquired-pilot-capless/"
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Congrats, it's a great pen indeed, I also own one! I do feel that the ink reservoir is way too small though, every time I want to write with it I have to refill it---which is another pain, as the hole that sucks up the ink is placed higher than with other pens like my Lamy 2000.
If you hold the Lamy at the right angle, it writes even better, but that's part of the problem. I'm a leftie and the Lamy is quite difficult to wield just right! The Capless is also superb as a "sealth" fountain pen. Nobody expects it in a meeting if you suddenly "click out" a nib 😄

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A lot of figures are misaligned depending on the left-hand or right-hand side since the caption appears in the margin. This is very irritating since adding or removing text moves them around, breaking the layout. That's fixed by hacking in `\checkoddpage \ifoddpage \forcerectofloat \else \forceversofloat \fi` just after each `\begin{figure}`, see [this GitHub issue](https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex/issues/144).
You probably also want to make use of _short captions_, otherwise the list of figures will be very confusing. The Pandoc filter https://github.com/martisak/pandoc-shortcaption is great for that, and converts
```
![a very very long explanation of an image](image.jpg "the short version")
```
Into a `\caption[the short version]{a very very long explanation of an image}`. That way, you can simply make use of Markdowns built-in support for _alt_ texts.
Another problem: how can you produce `\begin{figure*}`---note the star---to create full-width images spanning across the extended margin? By default, you can't. You can do this:
```
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I have no solution for margin figures except for a custom property within `{}`that does more or less the same.
As for tables, Pandoc generates `longtable` blocks instead of regular ones, and it's full of weird crap. Most of the tables I have require special TeX commands anyway, for instance to rotate certain column headers, so I gave up and simply relied on TeX for those blocks instead.
As for tables, Pandoc generates `longtable` blocks instead of regular ones, and it's full of weird crap. Most of the tables I have require special TeX commands anyway, for instance to rotate certain column headers, so I gave up and simply relied on TeX for those blocks instead. In that case, if Pandoc acts weird and starts translating `\` to `\textbacklash` instead of your TeX command, try [encapsulating the whole block](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4473) in a `{=latex}` Markdown code block.
If you want subtables: do not use the deprecated `subfigure` package which is incompatible with tufte-book! `booktabs` and `subfig` (with `caption=false`) does the trick, see [this stackexchange post](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/87364/problem-with-tufte-book-and-subfigure).

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