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I'm not sure of the name of what I need. I would like to set some text in a box or sidebar, as I've seen in some textbooks. The main text will refer the reader to the sidebar for more details. I would like this shaded. There is too much text for marginpar. I could just use a float figure? I'd prefer it to be half the width of the page though. Is there an easy way to achieve this? I'm not sure what search terms to use to find out about this.

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Google for tufte-latex. Example of layout: dl.getdropbox.com/u/502901/naurtf.pdf – JLDiaz Feb 25 at 8:32
Thanks. The layout I wanted integrates the sidebar with the text though, rather than placing it in a wide empty margin. The body text would have to be a single column next to the box. – SabreWolfy Feb 25 at 8:56
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Oh, I understand, you want some kind of wrapfigure? You can use this environment to put text inside also (and omit the caption). However these kind of environments are know to produce lot of problems in conjunction with itemizes, changes of section, etc. – JLDiaz Feb 25 at 9:07

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