Automatically convert footnotes to sidenotes for pandoc

[christopherisnow]

Thanks for sharing your work, this package seems like a worthy successor to tufte-latex.

But how do I turn footnotes into sidenotes in your template when converting a Markdown document to PDF with pandoc? This was automated with tufte-latex, but it seems in your package \sidenotes have to be specified manually.

[christopherisnow]

Answered my own question -- just add this line to the preamble:

\usepackage[side,flushmargin]{footmisc}

[sylvain-kern]

Thanks for raising the issue! (and for answering it)

Whenever I needed to get Tufte to work with pandoc I used this small package tuftetopandoc.sty I wrote specifically for this use case:

\renewcommand{\textfig}[4][]{%
   \begin{figure}[ht!]
       \noindent\includegraphics[width=#1\textwidth]{#2}%
       \caption{#3}%
		\label{#4}%
   \end{figure}
}
\renewcommand{\marginfig}[3]{%
   \begin{figure}[ht!]
       \noindent\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{#1}%
       \caption{#2}%
		\label{#3}%
   \end{figure}
}
\renewcommand{\widefig}[4][]{%
   \begin{figure}[ht!]
       \noindent\includegraphics[width=#1\textwidth]{#2}%
       \caption{#3}%
		\label{#4}%
   \end{figure}
}
\renewcommand{\sidenote}[1]{
   \footnote{#1}
}
\renewcommand{\sidetext}[1]{
   \footnote{#1}
}

Just \usepackage{tuftetopandoc} in the preamble and it is pandoc-ready.

(this is really dirty and does not cover listings, but it works ; your answer is better though)