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I just thought of a workaround. Using \hspace{0pt} right before \marginpar{Margin} produces the desired result.

have a question regarding the placement of content in \marginpar commands. In the following document, I would expect the marginal comment to be aligned with the first row of the second paragraph. Instead, it is aligned with the last line of the first paragraph.

Why is that, and is there a good way ...

As always, you should clarify the issue by a minimal example.

Ah yes, good point... It appears that the problem has to do with the way \maketitle is defined in my documentclass.

Sorry for the noise.

Sounds like \overlayarea is what you're looking for. Would that work?

Is there a way to prevent floats at the top of the first page of a document (or the first page of a chapter), other than moving the float environment to later in the document, or giving it a [p] placement, etc?

Ideally, I'd like a way to specify in the document class not to have floats above the ...

localghost wrote: Adding the txfonts package has the result shown in my first reply.

Perfect! That's it!

Just wanted to say that I still have this problem on Ubuntu 10.04.

Update:
I shouldn't actually use the current IEEEconf class, but rather
\usepackage[conference]{IEEEtran}
After using that and installing the IEEEtran version of Ubuntu 10.04, I get the following output from \listfiles:
*File List*
IEEEtran.cls 2007/03/05 V1.7a by Michael Shell
ot1ptm.fd 2001/06 ...

Thanks for the hint about \listfiles. With the provided test document above, I get
*File List*
../styles/ieeeconf.cls
ot1ptm.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for OT1/ptm.
***********

and nothing more. And looking at my "ieeeconf.cls", the comment at the top of the file says "IEEEtran.cls 2002/11 ...

I'm preparing an IEEE conference paper, and the math fonts in my document are not the same as in the text, which annoys me.

Consider the following test document
\documentclass[letterpaper, 10pt, conference]{ieeeconf}
\begin{document}
r$r$\emph{r}
\end{document}
I would expect the last two 'r ...