Mimicking the Microtype documentation

Question

One of the nicest LaTeX examples I have seen is the Microtype documentation.

The .dtx file is available here and I have been trying to recreate a document looking like this. Unfortunately it's not super clear to me how to recreate a similar document from the .dtx file.

I am using

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{ltxdoc}

which is straight from the .dtx file. Is that the package from the original .tex file?

I'm also interested in recreating the color scheme and margin notes!

Answer 1

The ltxdoc class is the standard LaTeX documentation class. The microtype documentation just extends this class via a number of macros defined in the preamble. Copy everything from the preamble to emulate the looks of the documentation package.

\documentclass{ltxdoc}
   copy up to line 647
\begin{document}

You can then remove carefully any definitions you might not want that are specific to the microtype documentation.