Full-width text blocks

[mlovelace]

I love using the tufte_handout theme in RMarkdown. At times, I want to use the full width of the page for the main text. Is there a full-width text block feature similar to the full-width figure feature? If not, are there YAML or knitr options I could change to make the main text full width?

[yihui]

No, this is currently not supported.

[josiekre]

If you are not opposed to sprinkling in a little latex, you can simply do the following:

\begin{fullwidth}
This is text that will span full width.
\end{fullwidth}

[kuochang]

It works!

[mlovelace]

Yep! A great solution. Thanks @josiekre! Unless I'm missing something, though, I think it only applies to pdf output. I haven't found a solution for html output that is just as quick as this one.

[yihui]

It is supported now, and works for both PDF and HTML output. Please see the documentation: https://rstudio.github.io/tufte/#arbitrary-full-width-content Thanks!

[mlovelace]

Thank you so much for adding this feature, @yihui! This is great news. So happy to hear that I can now easily add a full-width block for text to html docs. Thanks, again!

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