xelatex failure to compile due to Three pound signs ###

[kevinlanning]

In playing around with the Tufte package on two windows machines, I was consistently getting "failure to compile errors:"

Failed to compile tufteonly.tex. See tufteonly.log for more info.
In addition: Warning message: running command ‘ “xelatex” -halt-onerror
-interaction=batchmode “tufteonly.tex” ’ had status 1 Execution
halted

It turns out that these were attributable to my use of headers with three pound signs, i.e., blank lines beginning w/ ### getting rid of these fixed it.

You should be able to replicate this if you rename the attached .txt as .Rmd and run.
tufteXelatexError3PoundSigns.txt

Beautiful package.

[yihui]

Before you use the tufte package, you'd better read a little more about its design philosophy, e.g. it is intentional that only the first two levels of headings are supported: https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex/blob/master/sample-handout.pdf (Section Headings on the first page).

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