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vertical placement of graphics in marginpar

I'd like to put small graphics into the margin via \marginpar. The top of the figures shall be aligned to the top of the text line they refer to. I found around here the suggestion to put a \vskip0pt ...
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How to lock a static text in the margin in ConTeXt?

Even though I have a some manuals at hand I can't seem to find a solution for my problem. Within an invoice I created with ConTeXt (MkIV) I have placed a short paragraph in the right margin. This ...
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Too much vertical space before \part when using \marginpar

When I use a \marginpar{...} before \part{...} on a new page, I get a big space on the top of that page. Below is a screenshot, where the left one was typeset with marginpar, the right one without: ...
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Vertical space depending on height of marginpar

I'd like to set a law text consisting of articles, marginal notes and, in most cases, paragraphs (\abs). The marginal notes should always start on the same line as the first line of the article text, ...
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Horizontal alignment of margin notes in nested enumitem list

I would like to be able to 'tag' certain list items in an enumitem list with a mark in the left margin. I would like the marks in the left margin to be horizontally aligned with respect to each ...
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How can I place an image in a marginpar and make it position itself according to the top of the image

As demonstrated by the following MWE, I've placed a simple image in the margin of a document. What appears to happen is the caption text is vertically aligned with the line that I type the \marginpar ...
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Position margin notes relative to left margin in plain TeX

I want to add margin notes in the Tufte style to my Plain TeX document. (I'm using eplain, if that matters.) I know that if I were using LaTeX I could just use tufte-latex, but as a thorough ...
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Vertical align a marginpar with the first line of a paragraph [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Align marginpar with beginning of paragraph Is there a way to vertical align a marginpar with the first line of a paragraph, instead of the last?
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“Q” and “A” in margin - out of alignment

I have defined a command for a letter in the margin as follows (using marginnote because marginpar did not work at all): \newcommand{\sideletter}[1]{\marginnote{\Huge\bf\sffamily\color{orange} #1}} ...
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marginfix and letter class

One of the things I like about the letter class is that it vertically centers 1 page letters on the page. I recently discovered the marginfix package, but it seems to prevent the centering behavior. ...
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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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Vertically misaligned margin note

I'm trying to use a \marginnote along with a specified \parskip. However, I'm having an alignment issue. With the code in the group with the \parskip the margin note is misaligned with the text on the ...
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Conflict between the packages titlesec and marginnote

In the following code, the use of the package titlesec modifies dramatically the formatting based on the package marginnote. The package titlesec is needed so as to use this. Is there one possibility ...
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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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Push marginpar up

I'm using the marginpar to put side notes, but instead of having them facing the line where they are called, I would like the whole marginpar to be pushed up. How can I achieve that? I tried adding a ...
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Aligning images in the marginal notes based on a specific paragraph height rule

Friends, I have to put some images in the marginal notes of a text. Unfortunately, I have some issues with the image alignment. Consider this minimum example: \documentclass[oneside]{book} ...
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Aligning a marginpar with a line box inside a list

I'd like to write a LaTeX environment that automatically places a \marginpar next to the first line of text within. However, that first line of text might not be part of an ordinary paragraph; it can ...
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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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Vertical align a marginpar with the *first* line of a 2-line statement

I have an article in which I'd like to use margin notes near some text (some minor headings, equivalent with a subsubsubsection). In some cases that text runs on two lines. I'd like the margin note ...