Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Both the tufte-book and tufte-handout examples give many errors when I > try to export to PDF with ps2pdf. These errors disappear if the nols > document class option is specified. Is adding it OK or is there a > better fix? > > Below is a description of what the nols option does: > > The nols option inhibits the letterspacing code. The Tufte-LATEX > classes try to load the appropriate letterspacing package (either > pdfTEX’s letterspace package or the soul package). If you’re using > XeLaTeX with fontenc, however, you should configure your own > letterspacing. > > (taken from tufte-latex.googlecode.com/git/sample-book.tex or > tufte-latex.googlecode.com/files/sample-book-3.5.0.pdf)
I think letterspacing is an important part of the tufte design. So I would rather suggest to report this bug to the tufte class developers. Jürgen