Questions tagged [marginpar]
{marginpar} is a command that adds content to the margin of documents.
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Margin note next to theorems
I'm writing a math paper where I would like to give literature references next to theorems using marginnote or marginpar. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get them positioned in the right way (i.e. ...
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How do I put a figure with a caption nicely in my margin?
I may be going in the right direction, but as you can see from compiling, my image is cropped. What to do?
\documentclass[]{memoir}
% Lipsum
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
% Sidenote attempt
\usepackage{...
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How do I have margin notes on the outer margin and verse numbers on the inner margin?
I am trying to typeset an old Bible (the 1582 Rheims New Testament like below). The text is in paragraph form, with the verses on the inner margin and comments and references on the outer margin. I ...
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Margin note between columns
I am looking for a way to place a simple "margin" note right beside the start of a paragraph in a two-column text. As it is right now, it just appears at either the left or right margin.
The note is ...
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Encircling Margin Notes in Column Format?
I recently saw this old manuscript with the text arranged in a very curious way, and I wanted to know if it could be replicated. The text is from Accursius' Magna Glossa, a commentary on Emperor ...
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SIGCHI Extended Abstract - make image extend through margin and into text
Using the SIGCHI Extended Abstract template, does anyone have an example that will make an image go across entire page -- including the margin area. Or maybe the margin plus the left column? ...
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Preventing a marginpar from falling off the page
I sometimes put longer texts in a \marginpar{...}-command and if the text where the \marginpar{...}-command is located is at the end of a page the text falls off the page instead of being placed on ...
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Automatic positioning of marginpar (to avoid page overflow)
I am using marginpar to margin notes in a book. My problem is that if I add a \marginpar too close to the bottom of a page, the margin will overflow the bottom of the page.
For instance, using the ...
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margin paragraph with a vertical line on left side and numbered like footnote
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report} %inter office note /cover page vertical line template
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor} ...
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Marginnotes get slightly misaligned with flushbottom [duplicate]
Flushbottom is "on" by default in the book class, but sometimes messes up the alignment of marginnotes when additional margin between paragraphs is added to ensure that lines end on the same height on ...
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change position of caption with margincap
Currently it looks like that but i want the caption to be aligned with the top of the image and not the bottom.
My Tex file looks like this:
\documentclass
[
captions=topbeside,
oneside, ...
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top-aligned marginpar on wrong side (even/odd) after pagebreak
Under plain LaTeX with twoside option, I use \leavevmode\marginpar{#1} at the beginning of a paragraph to obtain top-aligned margin notes. Immediately after a pagebreak the margin note may or may not ...
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\loadgeometry from \geometry-package leads to misplaced \marginpars (twoside)
I am currently working on a new LaTeX layout for a scientific open-access journal. It is a twoside layout wich makes use of marginpars. The special feature is that the frontmatter has a different page ...
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todonotes text overlap and vertical spacing problem
I am trying to use both margin and face some problems.
I cannot start the paragraph with marginpar, i will have to add imaginary space \hspace{0pt}. Otherwise, it will align with previous paragraph. ...
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Replace mathcal plus margin-note results in \reserved@a does not match definition
This is related to problem with \mathcal in MIT Thesis package; I posted the below MWE there, but the edit was rejected due to deviating from the original authors post. IDK if its the right thing to ...
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How to remove the line break for a nested enumerate with a marginpar?
The MWE below demonstrates my problem.
I suppose that somehow the marginpar is introducing something on the line and Latex is then treating the line as non empty.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\...
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How do I toggle the normal/reverse marginpar?
I am trying to write a simple command that toggles margin sides. It uses \normalmarginpar or \reversemarginpar, but the user doesn't have to keep track of whether it was already reversed or normal. ...
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Positioning of /marginpar
I'm looking for a easy way to specify which side of my document my \marginpar is placed in.
Im doing a twosided document with 2 columns. I have one large margin specified for margin-pictures, but ...
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footnote/marginpar inside table inside csquotes blockquote
I need to put a table inside a blockquote, and the table has both footnotes and marginpars (I know, quite the convolution, but such is the manuscript I am transcribing).
The below version gives a ...
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How to put code with minted in the margin?
how to put code with the package minted in the margin (marginpar did not work)?
I want my code in the marge like the document but I want use the package minted.
Thank you.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Imitate Email-reply layout: Vertical line in left margin, except for responses
Edit: I am not happy with the 3 answers my first, smaller bounty got me. So I rewrote the question to set clear rules and a proper bounty.
The solution should create two environments, originalemail ...
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Interaction between hyperref and marginpar?
I have a document with margin notes in which \cite commands are used. I have the problem that the first line of the margin note does not match the line in the text if the margin note starts with \cite ...
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margins with landscape and page header
I use the scrreprt class with a page header. I also use margin notes. It looks good in portrait mode.
However, some pages may be rotate. In that case, this looks ugly.
Here is a MWE:
\...
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Margin notes that can both stack and be used in floats/footnotes
\marginpar notes won’t overlap; if you add two notes close to one another, the second note will start below the first. However, they can’t be used in floats or footnotes &c.
\marginnotes can be ...
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How to flush right margin contents on even pages in two sided document?
In report class with twoside option, how to flushright the marginpar contents on even pages?
The image below was produced manually inserting \hfill. I'd like to automatize it.
MWE
\documentclass[...
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Caption in margin not properly positionned
I'm having a peculiar problem: I set up my two-sided document's geometry and captions so that the captions of floats are displayed beside the floats in the margin par. This basically works, but for ...
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marginpar always on left side
In my document, marginpar always needs to be place in left side of the page, and I need to place chapter number and some element in that margin par width, for this I've tried with the below tags:
\...
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Memoir class - figure and margin figure floats at same vertical level
In a memoir class document, I would like to display a figure and a marginfigure next to each other but I need the top of the marginfigure at the same vertical level as the figure next to it.
When I ...
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Missing number, treated as zero when using renewcommand
I am trying to temporarily get read of marginpars in my paper.
I tried to simply \renewcommand{\marginpar}[]{} but I get:
! Missing number, treated as zero.<to be read again>} \renewcommand{\...
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Commutative diagramm (tikzcd) in margin
The following example gives me an error
\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[a4paper,
inner=...
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Table width and `\marginpar`
I've a table in an article where I need \marginpar. To make the table more readable, I could eliminate the re-entry to the right, so that the table itself occupies all the horizontal space, including ...
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Local fullwidth environment in symmetric document with margin
In a symmetric twoside document with 5cm margin on the outer side of each page, I want to create an enviroment where I can place locally a piece of text of full page width. Any solution that I have ...
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Remarks in changes package with RevTex
I can't seem to make the remark option from the changes package in combination with RevTeX.
In this example, I can "add" text but I cannot add a remark without obtaining an error of type:
! ...
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How to get a column with keywords?
How do I get and use a column with keywords in latex? Or is there another term for this column?
Example (screenshot from todonotes doc):
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How do I expand page width to handle wider marginparwidths while leaving everything else as it is?
I would like to be able to use todonotes package, but the amount of marginparwidth on right and left are relatively small. The space available for margins is too small that I want to increase the page ...
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Avoid expansion of `\marginpar` argument
I'm trying to make a margin par that will show the value of some macro defined after the placement point of the marginpar (think of it as something like \footnotemark vs \footnotetext).
However, the \...
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What is the exact value to align the first line of margin par with that of the main text?
I want to align the first line of margin par with the first line of the main text. How to set the vertical space exactly?
\documentclass[twoside,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,marginparwidth=8cm,...
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Baseline alignment of shaded side notes in the memoir class
I'm using the memoir class, and I'd like to add a shaded background to my sidenotes. My solution, however, doesn't work: the baseline of the sidenote text and the body text no longer align, as ...
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How can I get a prespecified clearance from `parmargin` to the page edge?
The margin indicated in the picture below is the clearance I am referring to. I already have pre-specified left margin, horizontal margin ratio, binding offset and marginsep. I want LaTeX to calculate ...
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Why does `\reversemarginpar` retroactively swaps the margins of `\todo` command?
I used \reversemarginpar after \todo and this retroactively causes the note to go to the wrong margin. I also noted that if I put \normalmarginpar right after \reversemarginpar \marginnote{Inner ...
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Margin floats running off the end of a page
I'm using the memoir class with the \footnotesinmargin option, and having an issue with the resulting sidenote float position. It seems like LaTeX is only concerned with the top of margin floats, and ...
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Why `parskip` package makes margin notes misaligned?
I have to merge two lengthy files, one of which is using the marginnote package and the other needs the parskip package. If I use them at the same time the command I use to label years in the margin, ...
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Typesetting an accessibility friendly diff-metric for changes per paragraph between two TeX documents
I am peer-reviewing a dispute in authorship order between two parties in our research group for a co-authored manuscript.
I suggested them to use the excellent latexdiff.pl to compare their ...
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First occurrence citation in margin note without explicit call
I'm using the tufte-book document class and the biblatex package,
and would like to add margin notes indicating a
near-full reference the "first time" a citation is made. Specifically, I'd like for ...
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On the page-breaking in \marginpar{}
I'm probably asking for something very complex, but in my not-expert mind it seems to me that is really weird not to have smart \marginpar (which I really want to use as a way to typeset margin notes) ...
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Problem with the marginfit package and margin changes
I am using the memoir package and make heavy use of margin notes (with \marginpar). I had a lot of issues with the placement of the notes until I discovered the very recent package marginfit, which ...
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Side notes adjust options. Can I “liberate” all the margin for sidenotes?
I have to deal with a lot of sidesnotes, so, I would like to "liberate" all margin for this, Here the code, as you see, sidenotes go after the page:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[demo]...
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marginpar inside captionof inside minipage
I really need to use \marginpar like in the following code:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
Ut ...
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classicthesis marginpar
The document reproduced below has a problem with the margin note going outside the page. If I remove the package classicthesis then the problem solves: the note stays inside the page. So there is a ...
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How to insert graphics into margins using memoir
I've read through memoir manual chapters regarding side notes and marginal notes (12.2 to 12.4) but I'm unable to figure out how to insert graphics into margins.
Is it possible and if so, how?
