One way is to use tikz
to position the text you want to be aligned with the words in the paragraphs. In the MWE below you mark the text with \Annotate{annotation}{text}
, and I have highlighted the marked text in red to make it easier to see and the annotation is shown in blue.. The data is created using a tabular
which makes it easy to create the vertical rules (if desired):

Notes:
- The
showframe
package
was used just to show the page margins.
It is not needed in your actual use case.
- This does require two runs. First one to determine the locations, and the second to place the annotation.
- Depending on the width of the annotations, you can adjust the width of the table. It should be possible to use something like
tabularx
so that you don't have to guess the width of the table.
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{tikz,tikzpagenodes}
\tikzset{Node Style/.style={blue, font=\bfseries}}
\newcommand{\Annotate}[2]{%
\textcolor{red}{#2}%
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
\coordinate (Location) at (0,0 -| current page text area.east);
\node [anchor=east, Node Style] at (Location) {\tiny#1};
\end{tikzpicture}%
}
\newcommand{\TextA}{%
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed id massa ligula.
\Annotate{Suspense?}{Suspendisse} finibus tempus arcu ut blandit. Curabitur dolor dolor, varius ut pharetra et, luctus eu sem.
\par
Integer convallis lacus \Annotate{erat}{erat}, id hendrerit mauris molestie quis. Ut non suscipit ligula.%
}
\newcommand{\TextB}{%
Integer quis mattis est. Ut sagittis lorem vel risus aliquet, non tincidunt arcu hendrerit.
\Annotate{Fuschia?}{Fusce} ultrices lectus ac auctor venenatis. Etiam convallis eu ipsum ut scelerisque. Morbi mattis egestas elit eu tincidunt. Curabitur ultrices \Annotate{US Dollar?}{dolor} ut elit molestie feugiat. Quisque et mattis diam, vitae semper ipsum. Proin in ultricies lorem. Mauris et ligula vitae dolor tristique dictum eget vel mauris. Vestibulum tempor eleifend maximus.%
}%
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabular}{@{}l |p{8.0cm}|}
Title & \TextA \\[1.0ex]
Sub title & \TextB \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
\documentclass
and the appropriate packages so that those trying to help don't have to recreate it. As you did not know how to do the annotations, you could have shown how you want to specify the annotations, and just create a dummy macro\newcommand*{\Annotate}[2]{#2}
for your MWE. – Peter Grill Nov 18 '14 at 21:49tabular
package. I will follow your suggestion in my future posts. – p3pio Nov 19 '14 at 11:56