A new experimental package is now on the ghrr drat. It is named tint which stands for Tint Is Not Tufte. It provides an alternative for Tufte-style html presentation. I wrote a bit more on the package page and the README in the repo -- so go read this.
Here is just a little teaser of what it looks like:
and the full underlying document is available too.
For questions or comments use the issue tracker off the GitHub repo. The package may be short-lived as its functionality may end up inside the tufte package.
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