{marginpar} is a command that adds content to the margin of documents.
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Notes overflowing from marginpar to footer
In this document, from page 12 and following, the notes from the marginpar are overflowing in the footer of each page.
How can this be achieved in LaTeX?
ConTeXT/LuaTeX based solutions are ...
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mix marginnotes with marginpars without overlap
We are trying to put the figure caption as well as the footnotes in the margin and got very good results with the tufte-latex package. However, we have to manually adjust the offset of each sidenote ...
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Align marginpar with beginning of paragraph
Is there a way to align a marginpar with the beginning of a paragraph, without cluttering the text of the paragraph?
If I do the following, the marginpar lines up with the last line of the first ...
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Margin floats and hyperlinks
I read Margin Figures/captions and the answers within. I have stripped the definition of the marginfloats from the tufte documentclass into the MWE below.
Can the definition of ...
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Marginpar appearing on the wrong side (using memoir)
The subject line pretty much says it all: some marginal notes (beginning of the second page) do not appear on the correct side. (The question is: how can I fix this automatically?) Below is a MWE that ...
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Send (and stack) \marginpar to the top or the bottom of the page
I'm looking to define something like \topmarginpar{<text>}, which would essentially create a \marginpar{<text>} and align its top with the top of the current page.
I would also like ...
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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 ...
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How to print keywords into margin?
Many documentations and textbooks print essential keywords of a paragraph into the margin. Is there any package for this?
Of course it wouldn't be all too complicated to define a custom command based ...
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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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Suppress the log file lines written by a specific package?
The marginfix package is incredibly verbose in what it writes to the log file. For example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{marginfix}
\listfiles
\begin{document}
Here is some text\marginpar{This ...
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Margin notes with a pointing arrow that are automatically vertically adjusted
I am trying to emulate margin notes as they are in my (favourite) macroeconomics textbook.
The crucial thing here is that the little arrow points to the line where the margin note is set. I have ...
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How can I put real notes in the margin?
I'm looking to write a fictional description/discussion by a 'scholar' of an alien race for an RPG, but I can see this being handy elsewhere.
I'd like to put his 'notes' in the margins of some text ...
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Visualize index entries in the text?
When I ad an index entry using \index with all the options available for the "format" and "see", and cross-reference, I'd like to see at the place where I make the index entry how this specific entry ...
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\raggedouter to typeset marginal text in twoside book
We used the following code fragment
\newcommand{\raggedouter}{%
\checkoddpage%
\ifoddpage%
\RaggedRight%
\else%
\RaggedLeft%
\fi%
}
to provide a ...
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Different \marginparsep for odd and even pages?
What is the most robust way of increase the effective \marginparsep on even pages only?
I have been playing with outdented lists, section heads etc. which leads to an issue with margin notes: I need ...
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Source Code Margin Comments
In the paper "Beautiful Code Compelling Evidence", by J.R. Heard -- Code is formated in a particular way which includes margin comments. I am looking for a way to do this as I think it is a very clear ...
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How to make sure the images properly float on the marginpar?
I want to create a problem booklet consisting of some questions and images on the marginpar. How to make sure the images properly float on the marginpar?
If you carefully see the left image below, ...
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Problem with Customized Marginpar (in Combination With a ToMarginpar)
I have two bits of "code" that work perfectly when isolated. The first piece builds a table of marginpar, the second provides certain customizations for the marginpar environment. When I copy both in ...
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marginnote always on right side of the page
My documentclass is book, so I've got an even and odd sides. I like that the equation number are always aligned on the right side - independent of the page (even/odd).
I started using marginnotes. I ...
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Marginnote on left side only, using document class book with twoside
I'm trying to use marginnote on document class book with twoside, but I can't see to get the margin notes strictly on the left. I don't want to be putting \reversemarginpar on all the odd pages. Can ...
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Automatic hyphenation in margin notes
I build a document with notes (like footnotes) on margins.
I found help on LaTeX community and now my preamble looks like that:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{marginnote}
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Margin notes in a multicolumn environment
I have been typesetting a two-columned book where I sometimes need to put a mark in the margin to say, that particular line might need special attention. (The book is actually a psalter - for ...
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marginpar and orphans
How can I avoid orphan lines if I use \marginpar?
For example, here is a two-page document that does not have any orphans:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\clubpenalty=10000
...
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Vertically aligning a marginnote and a section title
In the following code, the marginnote is logically aligned to the lipsum text. I would like to align the marginnote to the title of the section.
What's the trick to use ?
% Source : ...
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How can I place marginal notes always on the right but show normal odd/even headers?
I would like to typeset a book where the odd/even pages have the same format: each has a long text section on the left and a place to put small marginal notes on the right. If necessary, I want the ...
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margin notes on both sides of a single-column document
I have to write a paper for a course work. We are supposed to use a given layout with a single column text and margin notes on both sides - references on one side and section notes on the other.
I ...
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How to repeat automatically last marginnote on a new page? [closed]
I have some margin notes and want the last one to be repeated on a new page. Is there a way to do this automatically?
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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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Too many unprocessed floats with marginpar
I'm updating my CV, which is written by modifying this template. I have always been very happy with the result, but now I'm getting a Too many unprocessed floats error.
For those who do not want to ...
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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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How can I create a notes column in a document?
I need a document that has a notes column on the right hand side of each page starting after the contents page.
This notes column should have the heading "Notes" , should be 50% of the size of the ...
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\marginpar border with grey background and round black edges
I often use \marginpar{} which is boring to me. Is there a way to add grey background and round black edges so it would look like this:
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vspace in marginpar adds unwanted vertical space
I am trying to finetune the position of marginpars using \vspace. However, the result is not as expected and even if I include vspace{0pt} the marginpar get's pushed down, as the MWE below ...
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Redefine marginpar with \renewcommand
So I was trying to modify the default marginpar command by making the margin text appear in italic. Now the following alone didn't work:
\renewcommand{\marginpar}[1]{\marginpar{\textit{#1}}}
Which ...
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Stack margin text in ConTeXt
If I try the following in ConTeXt:
\starttext
text text\inmargin{this is a note.} text text\inmargin{Another note.}
\input knuth
text text\inmargin[stack=yes]{this is a note.} text ...
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Fixed marginpars with gray background in KOMA-Script
I am an newbie looking to achieve a sort of two column effect with my LaTeX report - I am using LaTeX KOMA-script as a base.
I want my margin to appear in a different background color, (say) gray, ...
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How do I get the margin note to appear on the left?
I'm trying to make a left-sided margin note. As per the LaTeX wiki, I tried using \reversemarginpar but that didn't solve anything--it didn't make a margin note at all. I also tried \marginpar[left ...
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Missing footnote and marginpar with package thmbox or package thmtools with option thmbox
I am using package thmbox to write theorems. If I include footnote or marginpar within the body of a theorem, the following problems arise: the text of the footnote is simply missing, while the ...
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List marginpars in the/a TOC
I try to write a longer story. To make the structure more clear I use the command \marginpar. But that is still time consuming when it comes to the point when I need to find a certain passage. That is ...
