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Implementing marginfigure
sorry for the absolutely beginner question here.
I've been looking at the tufte-latex class, specifically the tufte sample book. It makes use of marginfigures, which I believe are provided by the ...
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Add vertical line margin-aligned from a given point through subsequent pages
Using the memoir package, I would like to have a vertical line on my margin like this:
Some leading content
... vertical space ...
----------------------------------
XYZ | Content A
|
...
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how to control font and paragraph formatting in margins
i'm having a hard time to figure out how to control the exact appearance of margin text (such as is output by the \marginpar command). i'm using XeLaTeX with packages such as geometry, fontspec, ...
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Asymmetrical layout in two-sided document
I use two-sided document mode in Book class KOMA Script. It works well in the sense that the ToC, chapters, titles starts from the odd pages. Exactly we I need in a book.
In a recent book I need to ...
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Margin notes on both left and right?
I've been trying to put margin notes in both the left and the right margins at the same time. My attempts have gone something like:
Lorem{\reversemarginpar\marginpar{Left}} ipsum ...
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Why does the \marginpar not appear on the left page?
I am working on a book right now and the margin notes are not appearing on the left-side pages. I tried using mparhack but it made no difference. Is my geometry, fancy style or another package ...
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margin note left of an equation? [closed]
How is it possible to place a margin note left of an equation? I'm using scrartcl from KOMAScript.
I set \reversemarginpar, then I tried with \marginnote from the package marginnote and also with ...
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Inserting a line to separate the text and the margin note
How can I insert a vertical line through a whole page to separate the text and the margin notes?
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How to create twoside book with oneside margin?
I want to make a twoside book with oneside margin such:
odd pages:
even pages:
full header, with margin figure(or table):
I used tufte-book class, but cannot set margins as i need. It's margins ...
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Change marginpar for each page
I want to be able to change the marginpar and right values for each page, depending if the page has notes or not. MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[top=3cm, bottom=3cm, left=3cm, right=8cm, ...
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Sidenote formatting
I want to have sidenotes (alternate footnotes) in the margin. I found this code on the Latex Community website.
\newcommand{\sidenote}[1]{%
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Periodic word count in margin
I need to have a continuous word count for an assignment. This is either in the form of a note in the margin or one parenthesised in-text every 100 words or so. For instance,
----- TEXT ------|- ...
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Wrapping Margin Notes [closed]
I'm writing a small list of things and want to insert a small kind of box into the margin on right side of the list.
I'd like it to behave more or less like this:
If it fits into the margin fine.
If ...
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Aligning margin note with line spacing different from main text
I have a main text column with margin a line separation of 1.05 (\setstretch{1.05}), and margin texts generated with a tighter line separation with the following macro:
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9
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1answer
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How to make all figures float on the outer margins of two-side document?
I want to make a double-sided problem booklet that contains several questions. Each question has a distinct number and may have zero or more figures. Each figure has a caption and floats on the outer ...
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1answer
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Adding something automatically to every paragraph in an environment
I'd like to know if it's possible to have something added automatically to any paragraph in a given environment.
I use LaTeX mostly for doing fill-in-the-blank worksheets at the school where I work. ...
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How to get marginnote to use the whole margin space?
I'm typing up a document where I'd like to add notes to myself on the side margin. I'm using marginnote and using the geometry package for specifying customized margins, I've allocated 5 cm for the ...
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How to avoid getting cropped marginpar?
I'm using the fixme package to add notes to various parts of my thesis draft. However, if I set the margins using the geometry package, I notice that the fixme notes are not formatted correctly (with ...
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Layout with captions in margin and margin notes
Questions summed up below!
I want to convert a number of old (read: ugly self-coded html) tutorials into pdfs. They are still read by people, so I think it's worth the effort. The other reasons:
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3answers
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Making one margin bigger to allow margin notes in KOMA script
I want to add margin notes using KOMA script's \marginline. I don't want to get into the tricky business of manually setting a lot of typearea lengths myself, I just want to make the outside margin a ...
4
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Marginnote with geometry package
In my document i'm using the packages geometry and marginnote.
The problem ist the following:
If I use a newgeometry, the marginnote will stay on odd pages at same horizontaly position as by the ...
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2answers
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Caption of figure in marginpar and caption of wrapfigure in margin
I'm writing my master thesis and have run into trouble with the layout of captions in relation to the margins. I have two main questions:
How can I make the caption text of an figure placed in a ...
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How can I get todonotes in the left margin
I want to use the package todonotes. Standard, the package prints the todo's in the right margin, while I want to have them in the left margin. Funny is, that in the manual itself they are placed in ...
