Questions tagged [marginpar]
{marginpar} is a command that adds content to the margin of documents.
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How are the command names on the side in CTAN docs typeset
Trying to figure out how they place the command names on the left margin on package docs on CTAN, e.g.
I have tried using marginpar, but my text is not properly aligned. Minimal example:
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adjust the margin to be 1"
I am working on my dissertation, I am using a custom document class you can find it here
I am trying to make the margin 1" from each side. I tried to use geometry but didn't work
\usepackage[...
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asymmetric layout with margin on the left
The following MWE gives me a margin that is always on the right.
Is there a way to have the margin always on the left?
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{geometry,lipsum}
\geometry{
a4paper,
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Issue with marginfigure in twocolumn document
I have a twocolumn document with a large marginpar on right side. When I am including marginfigure it works correctly if it is in the right column. But if it is in the left column, the margin figure ...
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Conspicuous Marker Not Affecting Anything Else
I want to mark some points in my text with a highly visible symbol and yellow background color without affecting other typesetting. The idea is that there are certain points in my text that I have to ...
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Margin paragraph and head rule are reversed on even pages in twoside book
I am writing a book in Hebrew (which means Right to Left direction of text) using the book doc class together with the twoside option.
I enlarged the margin paragraph to be 50mm. Now I want the header ...
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How to place two subfigures one above the other in the margin paragraph?
I want to create something like the following:
That is, place two graphics in the margin paragraph (I couldn't find a similar MWE in a search here on the website).
What I have at the moment is the ...
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How do I change spacing between marginnote and body in twosided document?
By default in a twosided document the marginnotes appear in the outer margins of every page. The spacing between the body and the margin note varies from even to odd pages. What is the reasons for ...
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Top Page Stacked Alignment of \marginpar, \marginnote or \sidenote?
I have tried several variations of moving my footnotes into a margin located at the side of the page. What I have not found in their respective documentations, however, is a way to break their ...
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Width of parbox inside colorbox
I want to insert a colorbox into a margin paragraph. parbox is used to keep the line breaks.
What value should I pass to \parbox's width so it doesn't get too wide as it does now?
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Side commentary (on every page) in two-sided book class separated with a vertical rule
I would like to write a book and have main text with a side commentary separated with a vertical rule on every page. Side commentary should be on outer side of a page (two-sided). I am not sure if I ...
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Margin note/annotation with vertical text direction in APA7 manuscript
I am using apa7 package in writing a manuscript (\documentclass[man]{apa7}).
I am trying to add margin notes/annotation next to (some lines of) some paragraphs that summarize the gist of it, to show ...
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Remove margin paragraphs from the paper
I have a document that includes no margin paragraphs (\marginpar{..}), and therefore there is no need to give any area on the paper for the marginparsep and marginparwidth lengths.
To achieve that, ...
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Section/theorem/definition headers in margin
I would like a style in which sectioning headers along with theorem/definitions are in the margin. I particularly like the style used in An Introduction
to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (...
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custom margin notes
I am trying to set up a custom margin note command for my lecture notes but I encountered a few problems.
First of all, this is how it should look:
As you can see in the screenshot above, the margin ...
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graphics in right margin with caption
I want to place images in the right margin with a caption beneath them. I've looked at some of the questions and answers -- only one looked like my problem but when I copied the answer into my project ...
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Vertical and horizontal lines for whole page
I have a quick question regarding drawing lines. For practicing, I want to imitate the following CV:
For that I would like to ask for some directions when it comes to drawing vertical and horizontal ...
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Macro with \marginpar only when in outer mode (loses float)
Related to
Can I detect whether LaTeX is in vertical mode?
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\wm}{%
\ifinner INNER \else OUTER\fi
MODE
}
\newcommand{\mm}{%
(trying margin par)\ifinner(no ...
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marginpar on wrong side twosided first paragraph
I am aware there are a lot of questions about this or related but I cannot find any good general answer to any of them, so:
\marginpar seems to use the page number its paragraph start at to determine ...
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Reverse marginpar keeping marginparsep and marginparwidth with geometry
I have the following MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[bitstream-charter]{mathdesign}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
\geometry{
includeall,
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Placing listings in page margins
Goal
My goal is to place listings in the margins. I want to use sidenotes for this, not snotez, because I also require other functionality present in the former, but not the latter.
What I tried
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Can I put a drawing in tikz in margin in book style?
Is it possible to put my graph (tikz) instead of the text in the margin on page 7??
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{marginnote,geometry,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,tikzmark}
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tcolorbox frame + TikZ picture + marginpar
In a reply to another question user leandriis gave code that surrounds a theorem environment with a rectangle that has a TikZ picture in a corner. The following is copied almost verbatim from ...
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Fixing a marginpar in (vertical) place so it does not move
I use memoir’s \footnotesinmargin, which typesets ‘footnotes’ in the margin, using \marginpar internally. I am very pleased with the result when combined with marginfix, but I have one thing I do not ...
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How to (selectively) hide margin notes?
Consider the following LaTeX code, which contains an index entry my index.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{showidx}
\begin{document}
Hello, world!\index{myindex}
\end{document}
This typesets as ...
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Text on the side
I need to put text on the left side from my lst listing it should look like on the photo.
\lstdefinestyle{myStyle}{
belowcaptionskip=1\baselineskip,
breaklines=true,
frame=none,
numbers=...
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Footnote and number in margin
I'm trying to make a footnote appear in the margin along with the footnote number. I can generate the footnote without number with a the command: \newcommand{\marginfootnote}[1]{\marginpar{\...
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Why does scrlayer-notecolumn not work when I use \tableofcontents and scrwfile?
I'm using the packages scrwfile (for multiple tocs after each chapter), scrlyaer-notecolumn (for putting text into the margin column) and of course \tableofcontents. But somehow this doesn't work ...
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Putting marginpar always on the right in a two sided document
I'm drafting a document using a required style file for a conference, which is a two sided style. (i.e. odd and even pages are different.)
During the drafting process, I like to use the marginnote ...
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tufte-book marginfigure overlaps full-width content
\documentclass[nobib]{tufte-book}
\usepackage{mwe}
% avoid line breaks in inline math
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/14243/
\relpenalty=9999
\binoppenalty=9999
\begin{document}
\mainmatter
Some ...
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Graphics in every side page margin depending on odd/even
I want something working like a fancyhdr, but on the page margin: A colored box overlayed with the document title (or any other text) on every page, placed vertically inside the page margin. The box ...
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Trouble With \ref{ }'ing (Equation Numbers In Margins). Also Vertical Spacing Issues
I'm using a macro which takes equation, puts a * after it, suppressing the equation number, then using \stepcounter{equation}, and \marginpar{\centering(\theequation)} which puts the equation number ...
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Check lower edge of marginpar and raise if too low
I have a book where a custom command calls the \marginpar command routinely. The trouble is that sometimes it is called fairly low on a page, and then the marginal paragraph dips into and even below ...
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Warning while using geometry Tufte book style - (Over-specification in `v'-direction)
I try to adjust the page layout of my tufte-book document using the geometry package. A warning appears while I change the vertical layout, maybe its due to a missing field in my geometry declaration? ...
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Adding a label to Theorems etc
I would like to add some labels to Theorem (etc.) environments. Here is a minimal working example:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, amsthm}
\theoremstyle{plain}
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Gaps between sentences probably because of marginlabel. How to fix? [duplicate]
Gaps doesn't occur on every sentences but only to a few.
The MWE
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm, outer=3cm,%
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Custom text to the left of the left margin
I'd like to write some custom text (e.g. "hello world" in grey) to the left of the left margin, and it should follow the same spaces amongst the lines and should have the same font and size ...
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How can I add a margin note right next to a table?
I would like to add a margin note right next to a table as shown below:
Unfortunately the margin note appears at the bottom of the previous page although the table is located (correctly) at the top ...
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Move biblatex category headings into left marginpar
I'm trying to move the alphabetical category headers into the left marginpar. I followed this post for ordering the bibliography alphabetically and that worked well. I was able to use marginpar ...
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`altacv' class: How to use \marginpar{...} when no need to align the top of the contents to any \cvsection title in the "main" bar
Background
altacv is a class for preparing CVs. Following template is used for cv preparation. template link: https://www.overleaf.com/articles/anurags-resume/jdfqhmhqzbxv
It has two-column structure ...
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Typeset equation number in margin in two column mode
I am trying to typeset a math paper in two column mode using the amsmath package (in fact, using mathtools), making equation numbers appear in the margins. To be clear: I want equations in the left ...
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Option `headwidth=textwithmargin` of `scrlayer-scrpage` package for asymmetric page layouts
In the following example I am trying to extend the width of the header and the footer of the KOMA-Script class scrbook to include the width of the margin column:
\documentclass{scrbook}
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KOMA-script align vertically align margin notes with section headings
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
\section{Foo bar}
\marginline{A note}
Foo bar baz.
\end{document}
which produces
how can I ...
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Automatically move marginal notes that exceed the page border to next page
I'm writing my thesis with classicthesis. It defines the \graffito command for marginal notes as follows:
% Graffiti as in GKP's book "Concrete Mathematics"
% thanks to Lorenzo Pantieri and ...
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exercises in the margin, hints and solutions at the end
I use the answers package to put questions in the text and hints and solutions at the end of the doc. Now I like to use the Tufte book style, and put small exercises in the margin and still have hints ...
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Caption in the margin with scrbook
I use scrbook in a twoside layout.
I want to place the captions of floats in the margin next to the float (figures, tables, listings), aligned with the top of the float.
I know that there is tufte-...
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Let text body float around marginpar
How do I create a marginpar so that it is indented into the text body and the text body floats around the marginpar?
I know how to create a marginpar:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
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How to put a table in marginpar?
I would like to add a placement option "m" to the regular table environment to put small tables in the outer margin of the document.
I can achieve it "by hand" using the following ...
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Problems using marginpar to locate commands in the pdf file
I'm a copy editor. For editing reasons I find usefull to spot certain commands used by authors (or by myself in the editing process) directly in the .pdf (or .dvi) file (I know that I can highlight ...
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How to create sidenote helper macro which handles notes inside captions
I am trying to write a simple macro that will add a sidenote which will inline the note if it is added to a caption. To do this I am testing if I am in inner mode, but the test doesn't seem to work. ...
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