most recent 30 from tex.stackexchange.com 2025-08-07T16:55:28Z https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=marginpar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/748937 1 Linard Arquint https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/91923 2025-08-07T18:21:28Z 2025-08-07T14:53:57Z

<p>I'm using the kaobook class together with the marginfit package such that all citations in the sidemargin get shifted to fit within the margin.</p> <p>I noticed, however, that the page header (using <code>\leftmark</code> and <code>\rightmark</code>) displays the wrong chapter and section titles. In particular, <code>\leftmark</code> prints &quot;List of Tables&quot; throughout the document despite the current chapter name and <code>\rightmark</code> is often massively delayed in the sense that some section titles are seemingly skipped and while others are correct.</p> <p>What could be the issue and could this be fixed?</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/749070 4 jlab https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/316068 2025-08-07T16:47:19Z 2025-08-07T17:06:22Z

<p>I came across a weird interaction between <code>\marginpar</code> and headers marks when the package <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/marginfit" rel="nofollow noreferrer">marginfit</a> is loaded.</p> <p>For example, if I set the <code>\chaptermark</code></p> <pre><code>\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{% \markboth{Even: #1}{Odd: #1}% } </code></pre> <p>the header displays the chapter name on all pages, <strong>except</strong> when there is a <code>\marginpar</code> on the <strong>first</strong> page of the chapter.</p> <p>It seems that the setting is lost if there is a <code>\marginpar</code> on the page:</p> <ul> <li>it works if the <code>\marginpar</code> is moved on the next page;</li> <li>it works if the <code>\markboth</code> command is used on the next page;</li> <li>when I put a <code>\marginpar</code> on the first page of the second chapter the marks are not updated (the marks of the first chapter are still used for the second)</li> </ul> <p>I guess that it's related with updates in LaTeX kernel: it didn't happen with 2024 TeXLive, only with 2025 TeXLive and the <code>marginfit</code> package wasn't updated since 2018.</p> <p>Example:</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{book} \renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{% \markboth{Even: #1}{Odd: #1}% } \usepackage{marginfit} \usepackage{iftex} \ifLuaTeX \let \pdfsavepos \savepos \let \pdflastxpos \lastxpos \let \pdflastypos \lastypos \fi \usepackage{blindtext} \begin{document} \chapter{First} \blindtext[2] %% If the marginpar is moved on the next page, it works % \pagebreak \marginpar{TEST} %% If the mark is set on the next page, it works % \pagebreak \markboth{Even: First}{Odd: First} \blindtext[8] \chapter{Second} %% If the \marginpar is commented, it works % \marginpar{TEST} \blindtext[10] \end{document} </code></pre> <p>Expected:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/eArtazcv.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/eArtazcv.png" alt="Expected" /></a></p> <p>Got:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/82GiMyhT.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/82GiMyhT.png" alt="Got" /></a></p> <p>This question is related to <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/748937/316068">this one</a> (but it lacks a MWE).</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>This seems to be related with the fact that <code>marginfit</code> appends codes to <code>\@makecol</code> with</p> <pre><code>\let\marginfit@makecol\@makecol \def\@makecol{% \marginfit@makecol% ... </code></pre> <p>and adds after some content to <code>\@outputbox</code> using something like</p> <pre><code>\setbox\@outputbox\vbo \hbox to\columnwidth {% \box\@outputbox% ... </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/552355 0 Emmanuel G. https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/48916 2025-08-07T10:18:46Z 2025-08-07T16:41:22Z

<p>I would like to add a placement option &quot;m&quot; to the regular table environment to put small tables in the outer margin of the document.</p> <p>I can achieve it &quot;by hand&quot; using the following code:</p> <pre><code>\marginpar{% \begin{tabularx}{\marginparwidth}{X&gt;{\centering\arraybackslash}X}% \hline% Dipôle &amp; Impédance complexe \\% \hline% Conducteur ohmique &amp; $R$ \\% Condensateur &amp; $\displaystyle{\frac{1}{\i \cdot C \cdot \omega}}$ \\% Bobine &amp; $\i \cdot L \cdot \omega$ \\% \hline% \end{tabularx}% \captionof{table}{Impédances complexes de quelques dipôles.}% \label{tbl:impedances}% }% </code></pre> <p>but it does not work anymore when I try to transpose that in a more &quot;automated&quot; way.</p> <p>I tried (*.sty file):</p> <pre><code>\RequirePackage{float} \RequirePackage{ifthen} \def\mparenvironment#1\end{\marginpar{\centering #1}\end} \newboolean{mparend}% \renewenvironment{table}[1][ht]% {% \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{m}}{\setboolean{mparend}{true}}{\setboolean{mparend}{false}}% \ifthenelse{\boolean{mparend}}{% \let\caption\maketablemparcaption% \mparenvironment% }{% \let\@makecaption\@makefloatcaption% \@float{table}[#1]% }% }{% \ifthenelse{\boolean{mparend}}{% % }{% \end@float% }% }% </code></pre> <p>and (*.tex file):</p> <pre><code>\begin{table}[m]% \begin{tabularx}{\marginparwidth}{X&gt;{\centering\arraybackslash}X}% \hline% Dipôle &amp; Impédance complexe \\% \hline% Conducteur ohmique &amp; $R$ \\% Condensateur &amp; $\displaystyle{\frac{1}{\i \cdot C \cdot \omega}}$ \\% Bobine &amp; $\i \cdot L \cdot \omega$ \\% \hline% \end{tabularx}% \caption{Impédances complexes de quelques dipôles.}% \label{tbl:impedances}% \end{table}% </code></pre> <p>I get the following errors:</p> <pre><code>! Argument of \TX@get@body has an extra }. &lt;inserted text&gt; \par l.314 \end {tabularx} ! Paragraph ended before \TX@get@body was complete. &lt;to be read again&gt; \par l.314 \end {tabularx} ! You can't use `\vadjust' in internal vertical mode. \sf@end@float ...ty \@floatpenalty \else \vadjust {\penalty -\@Miv \vbox {}\... l.314 \end {tabularx} ! LaTeX Error: \begin{table} on input line 305 ended by \end{tabularx}. ! Missing } inserted. &lt;inserted text&gt; } l.317 \end{table} ! LaTeX Error: Float(s) lost. </code></pre> <p>If I replace the tabular(x) environment by some text or picture, it works perfectly... Of course, it also works if I use a regular placement option (e.g. &quot;ht&quot;).</p> <p>Any idea? Thanks in advance!</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/748107 0 Sunshine https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/281556 2025-08-07T04:49:35Z 2025-08-07T06:03:22Z

<p>Notice here the marginpar has align on the left,</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{amsart} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{One Two Three} \section{One}\marginpar{\raggedleft\text{One Two Three Four Five}} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{\raggedleft\text{One Two Three Four Five}} \section{Two} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{One Two} \end{document} </code></pre> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/mdJlzVtD.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/mdJlzVtD.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <p>How to align on the right? Like the following <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/g07l2JIz.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/g07l2JIz.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <p>If I add \usepackage[top=1cm,bottom=1cm,left=0.5cm,right=.5cm]{geometry} in the above code, it becomes <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/A2gu49s8.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/A2gu49s8.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a> Some part of the marginnote disappear, how to fix it? <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/CbISmE1r.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/CbISmE1r.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/748096 3 Sunshine https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/281556 2025-08-07T01:25:26Z 2025-08-07T03:00:04Z

<p>I notice that the marginpar starts with the left side aligned.</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{amsart} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{One Two Three} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{One Two Three Four} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{One Two} \end{document} </code></pre> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/fzvO2WZ6.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/fzvO2WZ6.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <p>If I want to adjust them to become the right side aligned (attached to the edge) like the following, what should be done? (here the green the the edge of the page)</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/OlQVy4M1.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/OlQVy4M1.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/747675 2 Sunshine https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/281556 2025-08-07T15:03:45Z 2025-08-07T06:25:23Z

<p>If I want to use the marginpar command, how to control its position? Namely, the marginnote appear either on the left or on the right. And I want to control the width of the box and the innersep inside the box, as well as the distance L of the box and the edge of the paper. Sometimes the distance L is negative. In the following picture, L is out of the edge. And if I want to pan up the note distance S, what is the comment? Notice here we set the command only for a particular paragraph, not setting for the whole document.</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{amsart} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ} \end{document} </code></pre> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/M95tM6pB.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/M95tM6pB.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a> How to control the W and L here? <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/pBz6b3qf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/pBz6b3qf.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/747644 0 Andreas Knobloch https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/263991 2025-08-07T08:30:05Z 2025-08-07T19:00:46Z

<p>So far, I’ve formatted the texts for my students as shown in Version 1. However, that was quite cumbersome. In the future, I’d like to simply use a body text like in Version 2. The problem is that trying to implement this with margin notes, of course, doesn’t cause the lines of text to automatically stretch, as is the case in the table from Version 1. Does anyone have an idea how I could solve this?</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{tabularray} \usepackage{lineno} \renewcommand\linenumberfont{\normalfont} \setlength\linenumbersep{-0.5cm} \usepackage[top=1.75cm,left=1.9cm,right=1.9cm,bottom=0.75cm,showframe]{geometry} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \NewDocumentEnvironment{foo}{+b}{\bigskip \begin{addmargin}[1cm]{5cm} \begin{linenumbers} #1 \end{linenumbers} \end{addmargin}\bigskip }{} \begin{document} \section{Version 1} This is an introduction text.\bigskip \begin{tblr}{colspec={@{}Q[r,0.5cm]Xm{4.5cm}}} 1&amp; This is a sample text in a foreign language. This is a sample text &amp; {note1} \\ 2&amp; in a foreign language. This is a sample text in a foreign language. &amp; {note2\\note3\\note4} \\ 3&amp; This is a sample text in a foreign language. &amp; {note5\\note6} \\ \end{tblr}\bigskip This is a following text. \section{Version 2} This is an introduction text. \begin{foo} This is a sample text in a foreign\marginpar{note1} language. This is a sample text in a foreign\marginpar{note2} language\marginpar{note3}. This is a sample\marginpar{note4} text in a foreign language. This is a sample text\marginpar{note5} in a foreign language.\marginpar{note6} \end{foo} This is a following text. \end{document} </code></pre> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/pBK2wZTf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/pBK2wZTf.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/565919 1 Patrick Lambein https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/226274 2025-08-07T10:55:21Z 2025-08-07T19:07:25Z

<p>I am trying to typeset a math paper in two column mode using the <code>amsmath</code> package (in fact, using <code>mathtools</code>), making equation numbers appear in the margins. To be clear: I want equations in the left column to have their equation number in the left margin, and equation in the right column to have their number in the right margin. So far, I have been able to make some progress with…</p> <pre><code>\makeatletter \renewenvironment{equation}{% \refstepcounter{equation} \begin{equation*}% }{% \end{equation*}% \marginpar{(\theequation)} } \makeatother </code></pre> <p>…but the number isn't centered on the equation, and the space between the number and the text block is not the same on both sides:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/eNUqr.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/eNUqr.png" alt="tag placement is wrong" /></a></p> <p>Here is a minimum working example:</p> <pre><code>\documentclass[a4paper,twocolumn,oneside]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,kantlipsum} \begin{document} \kant[2] \begin{equation} y = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \exp(-x^2) \operatorname{d}x \end{equation} \kant[3-4] \begin{equation} y = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \exp(-x^2) \operatorname{d}x \end{equation} \end{document} </code></pre> <p>I am not opposed to using other packages, but a simple solution would be best. Thanks for the help.</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/746141 1 sandu https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/12135 2025-08-07T03:42:43Z 2025-08-07T08:22:37Z

<p>I want <em>\marginpar</em> must palce the text always in the first line of the Question</p> <pre><code>\documentclass[a5paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage[top=10mm, bottom=15mm, left=10mm, right=30mm, footskip=8mm, ]{geometry} \newcommand{\signed}[1]{% {\unskip\nobreak\hfil\penalty50 \hskip2em\hbox{}\nobreak\hfil{(#1)} \parfillskip=0pt \finalhyphendemerits=0 \par}} \begin{document} \begin{enumerate} \item What is your name? \signed{2} \marginpar{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO1 &amp; U \end{tabular}} \item What \marginpar{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO2 &amp; R \end{tabular}} is his name? What is his name? What is his name? What is his name? \signed{2} \item What is his name? What is his name? What is his name? What is his name? \signed{2} \marginpar{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO3 &amp; Ap \end{tabular}} \end{enumerate} \end{document} </code></pre> <p>I do not want to split the question as in Q.No 2 for the marginpar</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/yuY6fy0w.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/yuY6fy0w.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/685019 1 Katjuscha https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/204893 2025-08-07T14:26:11Z 2025-08-07T05:02:50Z

<p>I wanted to use <code>tabto</code> to insert symbols into the margins of my document. I did this as in the following MWE:</p> <pre><code>\documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{tabto, calc} % \def\marginsymbol{\protect\marginsymbolhelper} % \def\marginsymbolhelper{\tabto*{-1ex}\makebox[0cm]{$\bullet$}\tabto*{\TabPrevPos}} % The following works, too: \newcommand{\marginsymbol}{\tabto*{-3.5ex}{% \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay ]% \node[circle, fill=pink] at (0, 0) {\textcolor{white!90!pink}{\LARGE\textbf{i}}}; \end{tikzpicture} }% \tabto*{\TabPrevPos}}% \newcommand{\marginsig}{\tabto*{\textwidth + 3.5ex}{% \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay ]% \node[circle, fill=pink] at (0, 0) {\textcolor{white!90!pink}{\LARGE\textbf{i}}}; \end{tikzpicture} }% \tabto*{\TabPrevPos} }% \begin{document} \section{Eins} Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum\marginsymbol Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser\marginsig Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum Dieser Text ist nicht Lorem Ipsum \end{document} </code></pre> <p>The symbol in the right margin (\marginsig) causes the text to continue at the right position, but in the next line. This problem is independent of using a tikzpicture environment, or tikz at all. How can I fix this?</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/652912 0 ivo Welch https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/25779 2025-08-07T22:31:21Z 2025-08-07T11:05:45Z

<p>related to <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/429354/writing-on-the-inner-margin">writing on the inner margin</a> .</p> <p>I am typesetting a 750 page book in memoir. (I have certainly had a lot of help from many people on this forum about various problems I have run into---many thanks!) now, I am just about done --- but as I am finishing up, I wonder about yet another issue.</p> <p>first, I know that for esthetics, we like good margins in printed books. I am not sure whether this is because we like white paper, or because the eye does better not reading overly wide lines. to the extent that it is the latter, I could shift the textblock left or right. (ok, I don't want zero margins on either side, either, but I hope I am getting the point across.)</p> <p>now, my book annotates each text paragraph with a short summary --- a few words, a sentence. it also contains pointers to where a subject was covered in another chapter. all good. the material is &quot;side comments,&quot; as one would expect.</p> <p>for location, these marginpars are placed, as traditional, in the outer margins. but I am thinking now that the outer margin is more valuable in a thick paperback book in which there is a spine (that makes inner material relatively more difficult to view). in this case, maybe I should put the marginpars in the inner side and shift the main textblock towards the outer margin, rather than how it is now.</p> <p>before I even think further about how I would do this technically, are there books that have done this? is this an entirely stupid idea?</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/174727 5 user61367 https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/25692 2025-08-07T20:42:03Z 2025-08-07T13:02:48Z

<p>I am writing a document in article class, using natbib, and would like to produce a bibliography with icons in the left-hand margin, which illustrate the type of resource being listed. After some Googling, I've seen that some Beamer-style bibliographies have this option, and I like the beamer-style icons fine. </p> <p>Is there any way to get a Beamer-style bibliography, or any bibliography with such icons in the margins (perhaps using something like marginpar), when using article class with natbib? If not, is there any way to do so in article class, using something other than natbib, like biblatex?</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/738998 2 sandu https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/12135 2025-08-07T06:36:21Z 2025-08-07T11:06:26Z

<p>Wrong spacing by \marginpar in question 1. (b) (ii)</p> <p>I tried marginnote (also not giving correct spacing)</p> <pre><code>\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{enumitem} \setlist{leftmargin=*} % Create a new counter for levelone \newcounter{levelonecounter} % Define custom environments \newenvironment{levelone} {\setcounter{enumi}{\value{levelonecounter}}% \begin{enumerate}[label=\arabic*.]% \setcounter{enumi}{\value{levelonecounter}}} {\setcounter{levelonecounter}{\value{enumi}}% \end{enumerate}} \newenvironment{leveltwo} {\begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]} {\end{enumerate}} \newenvironment{levelthree} {\begin{enumerate}[label=(\roman*)]} {\end{enumerate}} \usepackage[% top=20mm, bottom=20mm, footskip=8mm, left=20mm, right=5cm ]{geometry} \setlength{\marginparwidth}{2cm}% \setlength{\marginparsep}{5mm}% \usepackage{marginnote} \begin{document} \onehalfspacing \begin{levelone} \item \begin{leveltwo} \item How Calculate \marginpar{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO3 &amp; L3 \end{tabular}} the kinetic energy of the electron after scattering Calculate the kinetic energy of the electron after scattering \begin{center} Or \end{center} \item \begin{levelthree} \item Calculate kinetic energy of the electron after scattering. \marginpar{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO3 &amp; L3 \end{tabular}} \item Calculate kinetic energy of the electron after scattering. \marginpar{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO3 &amp; L3 \end{tabular}} \end{levelthree} \end{leveltwo} \end{levelone} % %=============== \vspace*{10mm} %=============== \begin{levelone} \item \begin{leveltwo} \item How Calculate \marginnote{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO3 &amp; L3 \end{tabular}} the kinetic energy of the electron after scattering Calculate the kinetic energy of the electron after scattering \begin{center} Or \end{center} \item \begin{levelthree} \item Calculate kinetic energy \marginnote{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO3 &amp; L3 \end{tabular}} of the electron after scattering. \item Calculate kinetic energy \marginnote{\begin{tabular}{cc} CO3 &amp; L3 \end{tabular}} of the electron after scattering. \end{levelthree} \end{leveltwo} \end{levelone} % \end{document} </code></pre> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/FNCks6Vo.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/FNCks6Vo.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/737930 4 Tomas R https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/255332 2025-08-07T09:55:05Z 2025-08-07T13:59:33Z

<p>I am trying to make my plot the same size as the margins. I have tried so many things, but cannot figure out a solution. Changing <code>width=\marginparwidth</code> to <code>width={}</code> is a slight improvement, but I am looking to use the <strong>full width</strong> of the margin note, basically meaning that I want the plot to touch the vertical lines displayed by <code>\usepackage{showframe}</code>.</p> <p>Code and output:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/rEDmbgsk.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/rEDmbgsk.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <pre><code>\documentclass[parskip=half, fontsize=10pt, DIV=calc, headheight = 104pt, numbers=noenddot ]{scrbook} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.18} \usepackage{showframe} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage[ includemp, paperwidth=18.90cm, paperheight=24.58cm, top=2.170cm, bottom=3.510cm, inner=2.1835cm, outer=2.1835cm, marginparwidth=4cm, marginparsep=0cm]{geometry} \title{MRE} \author{John Doe} \date{\today} \begin{document} \maketitle \lipsum[2] \marginpar{% \centering \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ domain=-2:2, samples=100, xmin=-2, xmax=2, ymin=0, ymax=1, width=\marginparwidth, height=4cm, xtick={-2,-1,0,1,2}, ytick={0,0.5,1}, xlabel=\empty, ylabel=\empty, ] % Define the custom normal CDF function \addplot [ smooth, black, very thick ] {1/(1+exp(-0.07056*((x-0)/0.5)^3 - 1.5976*((x-0)/0.5)))}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} } \lipsum[1] \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/655524 0 Jack M https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/32297 2025-08-07T13:15:55Z 2025-08-07T14:08:00Z

<p>I would like margin notes in the left margin, aligned with the first line of a paragraph, similar to <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5132/vertical-align-a-marginpar-with-the-first-line-of-a-2-line-statement">this question</a>. Basically these are headings for the paragraph. In the source code, I'd like the margin note to <em>precede</em> the paragraph it's meant to be attached to, for readability (the reader will read the margin note first, so I want to write it first).</p> <p>The linked question says that this should work, but for me this aligns the margin note with the last line of the <em>previous</em> paragraph:</p> <pre><code>\marginpar{Note} Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/725272 1 user855443 https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/161067 2025-08-07T08:40:06Z 2025-08-07T13:01:50Z

<p>@David Carlisle wrote in <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/223917/floatbarrier-behaving-like-a-clearpage">a comment to a question</a></p> <blockquote> <p>In answer to your question about floatbarrier it doesn't &quot;act like&quot; \clearpage it is \clearpage that is its definition, \floatbarrier = &quot;if there are no pending floats do nothing, otherwise do \clearpage &quot;</p> </blockquote> <p>which is as well what the code in <code>placeins.sty</code> says -- as best I can read the code.</p> <p>I was told that <code>marginpar</code> material is treated specially and therefore <code>FloatBarrier</code> does not work for material in the margin - as demonstrated in the following MVE.</p> <p>I am stuck with the question: why is <code>FloatingBarrier</code> (being the same) not working when <code>\clearpage</code> effectively pushes out the marginnotes? What I am missing? I read the <a href="https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2014-FMi-TUB-tb111mitt-float-placement.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">very helpful article by Frank Mittelbach</a> but did not understand how it applies to marginnotes.</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \newcommand{\filltext}{MARGIN NOTE TEXT Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Curabitur dictum gravida. } \newcommand{\maintext}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Mauris ut leo. Cras viverra metus rhoncus sem. Nulla et lectus vestibulum urna fringilla ultrices. Phasellus eu tellus sit amet tortor gravida placerat. Integer sapien est, iaculis in, pretium quis, viverra ac, nunc. Praesent eget sem vel leo ultrices bibendum. Aenean faucibus. Donec varius orci eget risus. Duis nibh mi, congue eu, accumsan eleifend, sagittis quis, diam. Duis eget orci sit amet orci dignissimi } \usepackage{marginfit} \usepackage{placeins} % has no effect %for lualatex (when expecting pdflatex) % required \let\pdfsavepos\savepos \let\pdflastxpos\lastxpos \let\pdflastypos\lastypos \begin{document} \maintext rutrum. note1 \marginpar{1 \filltext} \maintext rutrum. note2\marginpar{2 \filltext} % \FloatBarrier -- floatbarrier \clearpage --clearpage-- \maintext the paragraph should be broken and the last line with the margin note on the next page. note3\marginpar{3 \filltext} \maintext rutrum. note4 \marginpar{4 \filltext} \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/735217 2 Matt Petersen https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/331580 2025-08-07T21:31:11Z 2025-08-07T16:12:15Z

<p>Is there a way to put marginal notes at the bottom of the page?</p> <p>I'm using the medieval page setting in a memoir class document so I can have extensive marginal notes on a page. This works nicely for sidenotes, but it generates a lot of white-space at the bottom of the page that I would like to fill with glosses---as was often done in medieval manuscripts. Footnotes don't work, as they are not placed in the margin, but at the bottom of the text space.</p> <p>That is, I'm looking for an analog of <code>\sidepar</code>, say, <code>\bottompar</code>, that, instead of putting the comment to the side, puts it in the bottom margin. (Ideally with a sign linking it to the text.)</p> <p>Here's a minimal not-quite-working example:</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{lipsum} \medievalpage \checkandfixthelayout \sideparmargin{outer} \begin{document} \sidepar{\footnotesize\lipsum[8]}\lipsum[1]\bottompar{ \lipsum[6-7] } \lipsum[2-5] \end{document} </code></pre> <p>Which should produce this:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/V0SFrz2t.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/V0SFrz2t.jpg" alt="Marginalia in bottom margin" /></a></p> <p>Not this, as with <code>\footnote</code>:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/l2vecW9F.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/l2vecW9F.jpg" alt="Footnote" /></a></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/730687 0 Emma Neureiter https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/356098 2025-08-07T02:40:29Z 2025-08-07T11:21:43Z

<p>I'm using LaTeX to create language teaching materials, and in particular, I am using the \marginpar command to create marginal notes explaining unfamiliar vocabulary items. My go-to custom command, which works exactly as intended, is as follows:</p> <pre><code>\newcommand*\define[2]{\marginpar{{\setstretch{1}\footnotesize\textbf{{#1}} #2\par}}} </code></pre> <p>(Credit to lockstep for a critical fix; I adapted the command in its current form from the following thread: <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12594/changing-the-baselineskip-in-marginpar">Changing the baselineskip in marginpar</a>)</p> <p>I would like to add a vocabulary list at the end of the document collecting all the words introduced for reference and linking to the first instance in which they occur, to which end I sought to use the glossaries package (in conjunction with hyperref). However, the glossaries package does come with the significant drawback of having to add every glossary entry manually, which, to put it lightly, I regard as a rather daunting prospect for a glossary with hundreds of entries. Since I only want to reproduce the explanations I already provided to begin with, I considered automatically adding entries by embedding them into the command itself, adding a line like so:</p> <pre><code>\newcommand*\define[2]{\newglossaryentry{#1}{name=#1, description={#2}} \marginpar{{\setstretch{1}\footnotesize\textbf{\gls{#1}} #2\par}}} </code></pre> <p>However, this command crashes my document and so isn't working as intended. Is there an alternative way to go about my desired objective with the glossaries package (or with another package unbeknownst to me), or will I have to add all the glossary entries manually?</p> <p>EDIT: The crash was, in fact, caused by the addition of commas in particular into the definitions in question, which ended up confusing the syntax of the glossary entry (and which I failed to consider); adding another pair of braces around the description did the trick. Thanks to karlh for leading me onto the right track!</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/729922 0 modallyFragile https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/238079 2025-08-07T04:35:52Z 2025-08-07T04:35:52Z

<p>I want to typset sideheads, just as they are often used in legal documents, and then be able to refer back to these sideheads with the standard machinery of \ref, \nameref, \cref and the rest.</p> <p>A sidehead, as I understand it, is short phrase printed in the margin, often with special formatting (e.g. bold, small caps, etc.) which acts like a heading in that it marks a certain part of the document as doing a certain thing. <em>Unlike</em> other headings though, sideheads do not break the flow of the paragraph text -- they sit <em>to the side</em>. Knuth uses sideheads in <a href="https://visualmatheditor.equatheque.net/doc/texbook.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The TeXbook</a> (though they are always printed in a set at the top of the page).</p> <p>I would like to be able to insert code for sideheads anywhere in the text, with a single commmand (e.g. <code>\sidehead{&lt;the title of my sidehead&gt;}</code>) and have a margin note with appropriate typography (small caps) show up in the margin <em>next to the surrounding text</em> (so unlike Knuth's setup). I don't want the paragraph to break around the sideheading in any way (in this respect I want them to behave like margin notes). I want the text of the sidehead command to be typeset, but no counter or numbering.</p> <p>In all other respects though, I would like my sideheads to behave like sections. I want to be able to include them, in order, in a table of contents, and associate them with page numbers, and I also want to be able to add labels to them and then refer to them with cleverref, nameref and pageref (this is their primary utility -- I want to be able to direct readers to very specific parts of my work, from other parts of that same work).</p> <p>I have tried defining my own section, as described <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/394112/define-new-section">here</a>, but the titling package forces the paragraph text to break around the section (I think -- MWE below, but I can't find a way to prevent this).</p> <pre class="lang-tex prettyprint-override"><code>\documentclass{article} \title{A title} % Sideheads \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} \newcounter{sidehead} \titleclass{\sidehead}{straight}[\subsection] \titleformat{\sidehead}[display] {}% format (empty) {}% label (empty) {0em}% space (effectively empty) {\marginpar{#1}}% before code (after code ignored) \titlespacing*{\sidehead}{0pt}{0pt}{0pt} \begin{document} Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. \sidehead{Test} \emph{The sidehead should not cause the text to break}, but it does. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. \marginpar{Margin note}This (see right) is how I \emph{want} it to look, but \verb|marginpage| notes don't show up in the TOC or have \verb|nameref|-able labels. \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/726556 1 X Leo https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/91636 2025-08-07T08:12:44Z 2025-08-07T02:10:04Z

<p>LyX offers a way to redefine the command used by LyX for margin notes by the command provided by the <strong>marginnote</strong>-package (See <code>Help &gt; Embedded Objects &gt; 4.3 Margin Notes</code> ), by adding these two lines to the document preamble:</p> <pre class="lang-latex prettyprint-override"><code>\usepackage{marginnote} \let\marginpar\marginnote </code></pre> <p>However, this does NOT work for the <strong>todonotes</strong>-package:</p> <pre class="lang-latex prettyprint-override"><code>\usepackage{todonotes} \let\marginpar\todo </code></pre> <p>After adding above two lines in the document preamble, I get an error when use the <code>Margin Note</code> box. I think this is because the <strong>todonotes</strong>-package also use <code>\marginar</code> as it's fundamental command, which may cause nesting problem. <strong>Is there any way that replace <code>\marginpar</code> to <code>\todo</code> only once, so that everything works?</strong></p> <p>Example: the following *.tex code works, however it fails when uncomment <code>\let\marginpar\todo</code></p> <pre class="lang-latex prettyprint-override"><code>\documentclass{article} \usepackage{todonotes} %\let\marginpar\todo \begin{document} AAAAAA \marginpar{A small Test} CCC \hrulefill \vspace{3cm} BBBBBB \todo{A small Test} CCC \hrulefill \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/726687 0 schtandard https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/48973 2025-08-07T17:19:35Z 2025-08-07T17:19:35Z

<p>The MWE</p> <pre class="lang-latex prettyprint-override"><code>\documentclass[reprint]{revtex4-2} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \begin{figure} \lipsum[1] \caption{blah} \end{figure} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \begin{figure} \lipsum[1] \caption{blah} \end{figure} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} \end{document} </code></pre> <p>yields the error</p> <pre><code>! Undefined control sequence. &lt;argument&gt; ...tally@float \expandafter {\@captype } l.37 ...marginpar{blah} \lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah} </code></pre> <p>(This error was also reported in <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/536889/48973">this question</a>, though without an MWE to debug.) What's most confusing about this to me is that the error occurs outside of any float or caption. However, it seems to be influenced by what's in the document: Removing any of the figures or even just the <code>\lipsum[1]</code> in the first one makes the error go away. I was unable to reproduce the error without the use of figures (just adding a large number of <code>\lipsum[1]\marginpar{blah}</code>).</p> <p>As mentioned in the other question, an easy workaround is to just define <code>\@captype</code>. This question is not about that but rather: <strong>Why does this error occur? Is it a bug in RevTeX or in the kernel?</strong></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/725988 0 user855443 https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/161067 2025-08-07T09:33:00Z 2025-08-07T10:23:29Z

<p>I want to redefine <code>\marginpar</code> to include a counter for how much space in the margin is already used. This counter is later used in <code>\marginbarrier</code> (with an argument of how much space to reserve in the margin) to force a <code>\newpage</code> to cause output when the margin is full. The code works as long as the command is not called <code>\marginpar</code> (e.g. <code>\marginpage</code> as commented out), but my intention is to use it as a drop in replacement in <code>marginfix</code> and <code>sidenotes</code> packages.</p> <p>If I use <code>\renewcommand{\marginpar}[1]%</code> I get no response and I guess I have an infinite loop. I looked at <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48571/redefine-marginpar-with-renewcommand">another similar question</a> and tried the advice given there with <code>\let</code> and then get the error <code>Undefined control sequence. ONE \maintext note1\marginpar{1 \filltext}</code> which I do not understand as all these commands are defined.</p> <p>I am new to such use of Latex and assume that I miss something basic or made a stupid mistake. Help is greatly appreciated!</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \newcommand{\filltext}{MARGIN NOTE TEXT Lorem ipsum sapientem ne neque dolor erat,eros solet invidunt lobortis est Utinam, enim commune corrumpit Aenean erat tellus. Metus sed amet dolore justo, gubergren sed. END OF MARGIN TEXT} \newcommand{\maintext}{\lipsum[75]} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{marginfix} \newlength{\margintotal} \AddToHook{shipout/after}{\global\margintotal=0pt} \newsavebox{\marginbox} \newcommand{\marginparold}[1]{\marginpar{#1}} %\let\marginarold\marginpar %\newcommand{\marginpage}[1]{ \renewcommand{\marginpar}[1]% {% \savebox{\marginbox} {\parbox[b]{\marginparwidth}{#1}}% \global\advance\margintotal by \dimexpr \ht\marginbox+\dp\marginbox\relax \marginparold{\box\marginbox}% this puts it into the margin } \newcommand{\marginbarrier}[1]% {% \ifdim 0pt &gt;\dimexpr \textheight - #1 - \margintotal - \ht\marginbox\relax \newpage \fi } \begin{document} ONE \maintext note1\marginpar{1 \filltext} and the rest of the para! \marginbarrier{190pt} TWO \maintext note2\marginpar{2 \filltext} and the rest of the para! \marginbarrier{380pt} % next paragraph has two notes! THREE \maintext note3\marginpar{3 \filltext} the paragraph should be broken and the last line with the margin note on the next page. note4\marginpar{4 \filltext} and the rest of the para! \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/724168 0 user855443 https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/161067 2025-08-07T21:15:24Z 2025-08-07T13:16:34Z

<p>I have a text to layout in a tufte-style with many sidenotes/marginnotes/marginpar. Occasionally notes for a line cannot be placed on the page. Depending on the package used they either stick out at the bottom or are move to the next page, which are both not acceptable in my case.</p> <p>I wish that lines with marginpar which cannot be place on the page cause a page break as indicated in the MWE and the line including the side note and the marginpar are moved to the next page. It is acceptable that the main column of the page in such cases is not filled. If the \newpage is inserted, the expected behavior is achieved.</p> <p>I have edited the MWE to clarify that the margin note is not always at the end of the paragraph and the paragraph should be broken at the line before the line with the note - and the line not justified and continued without indent for a new paragraph on the next page.</p> <p>The answer from @John Kormylo works for the question as initially posed and I hope can be adapted to the more precise problem</p> <p>A MWE is</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \newcommand{\filltext}{MARGIN NOTE TEXT Lorem ipsum dolor sit met, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, lacerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris.Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Curabitur dictum gravida. } \newcommand{\maintext}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Mauris ut leo. Cras viverra metus rhoncus sem. } %\usepackage{lipsum} %\usepackage{marginfix} \usepackage{marginfit} %\usepackage{sidenotes} \begin{document} \maintext NOTE1 \marginpar{1 \filltext} \maintext \maintext NOTE2 \marginpar{2 \filltext} \maintext THE PARAGRAPH SHOULD BE BROKEN ON THE LINE % \newpage BEFORE THE NOTE NOTE3 \marginpar{3 \filltext} AND CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE WITHOUT INDENT \maintext \maintext rutrum. NOTE4 \marginpar{4 \filltext} and some more text. \maintext rutrum. NOTE5 \marginpar{5 \filltext} \maintext \end{document} </code></pre> <p>This question is similar to <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/624033/long-sidenotes-break-marginfix-or-how-to-make-breakable-sidenotes">this</a> and <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/723999/how-to-use-sidenotes-package-with-tufte-book?noredirect=1#comment1801586_723999">this I posed without a MWE</a> but the answers did not deal with my expected behavior.</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/725303 0 user855443 https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/161067 2025-08-07T15:31:47Z 2025-08-07T15:31:47Z

<p>I want to construct a <code>marginbarrier</code> (similar to <code>FloatBarrier</code> which does not work for material in the margins). It will have an argument, indicating how much space to reserve in the margin for the margin material of the next paragraph.</p> <p>Trying to find solution for overfilling margins, I use the answer from @John Kormylo received to <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/724168/how-to-break-page-when-sidenote-marginnote-can-not-be-placed">a question on breaking pages</a>. I understand the difficulty for an automatic solution to break pages when margins fill and try now to build a variant to <code>\FloatBarrier</code> where I can reserve an amount of space ahead of a paragraph containing margin material. It will issue a \clearpage when not enough space in the margin is available and do nothing otherwise (similar to <code>\FloatBarrier</code> except for an argument giving the amount of space to request).</p> <p>The advantage of this approach is, that after edits unnecessary <code>marginbarrier</code> need not be removed, thus making changes in the text less painful.</p> <p>My code is using the code from @John Kormylo which I adapted, as good as I understand it. The result seems to work, except that it produces in <code>marginpage</code> a paragraph break and I cannot see why and how to get rid of it.</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \newcommand{\filltext}{MARGIN NOTE TEXT Lorem ipsum sapientem ne neque dolor erat,eros solet invidunt lobortis est Utinam, enim commune corrumpit Aenean erat tellus. Metus sed amet dolore justo, gubergren sed.} \newcommand{\maintext}{\lipsum[75]} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{marginfix} \usepackage{placeins} % has no effect %for lualatex (when expecting pdflatex) % required \let\pdfsavepos\savepos \let\pdflastxpos\lastxpos \let\pdflastypos\lastypos \newlength{\margintotal} \AddToHook{shipout/after}{\global\margintotal=0pt} \newsavebox{\textbox} \newcommand{\continuepar}{\unvbox\textbox} \newsavebox{\marginbox} \newcommand{\marginpage}[1] {\savebox{\marginbox}{\parbox[b]{\marginparwidth}{#1}}% \global\advance\margintotal by \dimexpr \ht\marginbox+\dp\marginbox\relax \continuepar\marginpar{\box\marginbox}% } \newcommand{\marginbarrier}[1]% {% % \par MARGINBOX \the\ht\marginbox\relax % \par TEXTHEIGHT \the\textheight % \par RESERVE {#1} % \par PROVIDED \the\dimexpr \textheight - #1 % \par MARGINTOTAL \the\margintotal\relax % \par MARGINBOX \the\ht\marginbox\relax % \par REQUEST \the\dimexpr \textheight- #1 - \margintotal - \ht\marginbox\relax \par \ifdim 0pt &gt;\dimexpr \textheight- #1 - \margintotal - \ht\marginbox\relax % \par FULL \newpage \fi } \begin{document} \maintext note1\marginpage{1 \filltext} and the rest of the para! \marginbarrier{190pt} \maintext note2\marginpage{2 \filltext} and the rest of the para! \marginbarrier{190pt} \maintext the paragraph should be broken and the last line with the margin note on the next page. note3\marginpage{3 \filltext} and the rest of the para! \marginbarrier{190pt} \maintext note4 \marginpage{4 \filltext} \marginbarrier{190pt} \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/725149 1 K. Shen https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/336280 2025-08-07T13:34:50Z 2025-08-07T14:08:23Z

<p>I'm looking for solutions to typeset margin/side notes</p> <ul> <li>vertically in a <code>marginpar</code> starting from the bottom next to the main text body, similar to what was achieved <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/632871/margin-note-annotation-with-vertical-text-direction-in-apa7-manuscript">here</a>, and</li> <li>capable of handling multiple notes from the same page to appear in the same paragraph in <code>marginpar</code>, similar to what is achieved in <code>footmisc</code> or <code>manyfoot</code> with <code>[para]</code> option, as shown in the picture below, in which three side notes are in the same paragraph.</li> </ul> <p>Ideally I'd like to have the notes go on into the next page if the margin is full. But I'm happy to manually inserting <code>\newpage</code> for the time being.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/1KcHeiy3.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/1KcHeiy3.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <p>Below is a minimal compilable test file in which I want to move the footnotes to the right margin, and rotate 90 degrees anticlockwise.</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{book} \usepackage[para*]{manyfoot} \DeclareNewFootnote[para]{A}[arabic] \newcommand{\mynote}[1]{% to be redefined \FootnotetextA{}{#1}% } \begin{document} Lorem\mynote{note 1} ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\mynote{note 2}. Aliquam gravida nec nulla sit amet rutrum\mynote{note 3}. \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/723550 0 荀湖賢 https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/331801 2025-08-07T22:37:31Z 2025-08-07T22:17:07Z

<p>The margin notes in my document start lower than the first line, and do not stack up. I presume there's a setting somewhere which tells the margin note to be placed vaguely in the area of the line to which it corresponds. I wonder if there's a solution that might help me resolve these problems.</p> <p>The code I am using is below. Thanks in advance! The only existing answer I found is either to use memoir documentclass which would not help with the starting point for the margin notes.</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{ b5paper, total={110mm,250mm}, %176-250% left=10mm, top=20mm, bottom=20mm, marginparsep=10mm, marginparwidth=6cm } \setlength{\marginparpush}{-5pt} \newcounter{mgncount} \renewcommand\themgncount{\arabic{mgncount} } \newcommand\marginfootnote[1]{\refstepcounter{mgncount}\marginpar{\small\singlespacing{$^{\themgncount}$}#1}\footnotemark} \usepackage{fontspec} \newfontfamily{\sg}{FandolSong} \newfontfamily{\kai}{AR PL UKai TW} \newfontfamily{\ming}{AR PL UMing TW} \newfontfamily{\fg}{FandolFang} \XeTeXlinebreaklocale &quot;zh&quot; \usepackage{setspace} \begin{document} \begin{center} \Huge \kai 第九課：如魚得水 \end{center} \LARGE \kai \begin{spacing}{2.5} \underline{東漢} {\marginfootnote{\sg 東漢，\nr dōnghàn, N,\\ the Eastern Han Dynasty}} \underline{末年} {\marginfootnote{\sg 末年，\nr mònián, N,\\ the last years of a dynasty}} ，很多人都想\underline{當} {\marginfootnote{\sg 當，\nr dāng, V,\\ hold the post of}} \underline{皇帝}{\marginfootnote{\sg 皇帝，\nr huángdì, N,\\ emperor}}， \underline{到處} {\marginfootnote{\sg 到處，\nr dàochù, Adv,\\ everywhere}} 都在打仗，\\ \vspace{25mm} \underline{人民} {\marginfootnote{\sg 人民，\nr rénmín, N,\\ the people, the nation}} 生活很不安定。 \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/673642 3 mhwombat https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/15732 2025-08-07T16:49:20Z 2025-08-07T05:24:55Z

<p>By default, headers and footers span only the width of the text body, but I need them to span the width of the margin notes <em>and</em> the main text. The closest I've been able to get is the following, using the <code>headwidth</code> and <code>paperwidth</code> options.</p> <pre><code>\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{article} \usepackage{mwe} \usepackage[margin=2cm,marginparwidth=4cm,includemp,reversemp]{geometry} \usepackage[headwidth=paper, footwidth=paper]{scrlayer-scrpage} \ihead{left header} \chead{centre header} \ohead{right header} \ifoot{left footer} \cfoot{centre footer} \ofoot{right footer} \begin{document} \section{Some text} \blindtext \marginpar{This is a margin note} \section{Some more text} \blindtext \end{document} </code></pre> <p>Now the header is properly left-aligned with the margin notes column. However, the &quot;right header&quot; runs off the edge of the page. Clearly I need to set the headwidth to something like marginwidth + marginparsep + textwidth. However, I can't find anything about how to do this in the KOMA-Script manual (at least the English language version, <code>scrguide-en.pdf</code>).</p> <p>I'm open to a solution with or without <code>scrlayer-scrpage</code>. I would prefer to avoid manually placing the header elements (e.g. using <code>textpos</code>) because I think it will be more difficult for others to maintain the code.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/Mwv5V.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Mwv5V.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/719680 6 Keks Dose https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4736 2025-08-07T09:20:29Z 2025-08-07T12:25:21Z

<p>I'm commenting a LaTeX file using the highlight command from the very nice lua-ul package. There is a strange side effect: the coloring in my margin notes is only partially.</p> <p>MWE:</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \usepackage{lua-ul} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{luacolor} \usepackage{ragged2e, setspace} \newcounter{Rnnr} \usepackage{perpage, marginfix} \MakePerPage{Rnnr}% \renewcommand{\theRnnr}{\alph{Rnnr}} \newcommand{\Anm}[1]{% % \stepcounter{Rnnr} \textsuperscript{\textit{\theRnnr}} \marginpar{% \RaggedRight\singlespace% \textsuperscript{\theRnnr}% \footnotesize% #1}}% \begin{document} Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim. \highLight{Aliquam lorem ante, dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat\Anm{One yellow line. But the next lines come without highlighting.} a, tellus.} Phasellus viverra nulla ut metus varius laoreet. Quisque rutrum. Aenean imperdiet. Etiam ultricies nisi vel augue. Curabitur ullamcorper ultricies nisi. Nam eget dui. Etiam rhoncus. Maecenas tempus, tellus eget condimentum rhoncus, sem quam semper libero, sit amet adipiscing sem neque sed ipsum. Nam quam nunc, blandit vel, luctus pulvinar, hendrerit id, lorem. Maecenas nec odio et ante tincidunt tempus. Donec vitae sapien ut libero venenatis faucibus. Nullam quis ante. Etiam sit amet orci eget eros faucibus tincidunt. Duis leo. Sed fringilla mauris sit amet nibh. Donec sodales sagittis magna. Sed consequat, leo eget bibendum sodales, augue velit cursus nunc, \end{document} </code></pre> <p>Result (texlive 24):</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/jtigE1jF.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/jtigE1jF.png" alt="result of code" /></a></p> <p>If I had a choice, I'd like to know how to avoid any highlighting in the marginal note. And maybe avoid that the printout of the note is one line lower than the anchor in the main text.</p>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/716577 2 Romain https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/165464 2025-08-07T20:40:10Z 2025-08-07T14:15:15Z

<p>I would like to add a margin note next to Verbatim environment, but I got the error &quot;Not in outer par mode.&quot;. Though this is working well with lstlisting environment. Any solution ?</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \usepackage{listings} \lstset{ frame=single, escapechar=!, } \usepackage{fancyvrb} \begin{document} \begin{lstlisting} text inside listings... !\marginpar{Working well}! \end{lstlisting} \begin{Verbatim}[frame=single, commandchars=\\\{\}] text inside Verbatim... \marginpar{Not working} \end{Verbatim} \end{document} </code></pre>

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/715343 1 Ax11 https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/317369 2025-08-07T14:11:36Z 2025-08-07T15:34:37Z

<p>I am learning about macros to define commands with a variable number of arguments (following <a href="https://davidyat.es/2016/07/27/writing-a-latex-macro-that-takes-a-variable-number-of-arguments/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>). I saw a behavior that, to me, looks unexpected. If the <code>\newcommand</code> has a brace containing the expression, the macro does not behave as it should. Here is the code and three examples, one with the expected behavior, another one with a brace inside, and another one (my real use case), where I use <code>\marginpar</code>.</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \makeatletter \newcommand{\checknextarg}{\@ifnextchar\bgroup{\gobblenextarg}{.}} \newcommand{\gobblenextarg}[1]{ and #1\@ifnextchar\bgroup{\gobblenextarg}{.}} \newcommand{\shoppinglist}[1]{% Shopping list: #1\checknextarg} \newcommand{\shoppinglistbrace}[1]{% {Shopping list: #1\checknextarg}} \newcommand{\shoppinglistmargin}[1]{% \marginpar{\par\noindent{\rule{\marginparwidth}{0.4pt}} Shopping list #1\checknextarg}} \makeatother \begin{document} \shoppinglist{T1}{T2}\par \shoppinglistbrace{T1}{T2}\par \shoppinglistmargin{T1}{T2} \end{document} </code></pre> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/bmoAYttU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/bmoAYttU.png" alt="Image with the result" /></a></p>

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