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I tried to use tufte-latex for a longer document in 2012, but bailed out and switched to memoir for multiple reasons.

There are quite some recent questions on tufte-latex here. Its GitHub shows the latest change to this package in 2019. (This is not bad as such, there are a lot of old mature packages.) But seeing questions like this raises some eyebrows.

Is tufte-latex still alive? Would you recommend to use it?

Would you recommend to use it for a 100+ pages document? (I definitely would recommend memoir and I would not recommend tufte-latex from 2012 for this sake. But, hey, a lot chould have changed since then.)

I am most interested in not replicating Tufte's style up to the last inch, but in wide margins, margin figures, full-width figures. Footnote / margin-note citations are also nice. I guess, one could fake all of them in koma or memoir, if one would want to.

(In fact, margin-note citations turned to be a mess in my literature review in 2012, so I switched to more conservative memoir, but a lot can be done in writing itself to fix this.)

Oleg Lobachev
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    If you already have a 100+ pages document, then you can just give it a try: change the documentclass, and see how much time it takes you to resolve errors (if any) and modify the output to your needs. If that takes more than 1-2 hours then that would point towards the class not being very suitable for your use case. – Marijn Jul 20 '22 at 20:11
  • My interest was primarily for writing a new one. Ten years ago I resolved errors in the other direction and never looked back until today. That old project is long done. – Oleg Lobachev Jul 20 '22 at 20:19
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    Writing a new document would be easier, since you can avoid incompatibilities from the start. In that case just write a few pages and see if you like it. The class is mature, but the layout is not intended to be very flexible - some people like to work with it, others don't. – Marijn Jul 20 '22 at 20:34
  • I am very new to LaTeX and my first stab using it is with the Tufte-Book class. It has been a steep learning curve for me since I am not a developer, but with this very supportive community I am slowly making progress. I have made several modifications to my particular .tex file using code snippets that have arisen not only from my questions but the questions of others as well. So far, so good. – Steven Sep 12 '22 at 00:16

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