General ⇒ marginal notes outside the page

[warrence]

hi.
i have some trouble placing comments on the margin. for this i use

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\marginpar{my marginal comment}

in the preamble i'm using

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\geometry{outer=2.5cm,inner=2cm,top=1.5cm,bottom=3cm}

which causes that the comment is not placed properly but is half outside the page on even and odd pages (i'm using twoside-page mode). i thought that \geometry might cause this problem, so i removed it and added

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\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{2cm-1in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{2.5cm-1in}
\setlength{\textwidth}{16.5cm}

because this is what i found several times at google (1in is said to be some offset latex uses). this causes both margins to be about 2cm and 2.5cm (somehow not exactly, though) but the comments as well being far off the page (but well aligned to the text block). the trouble seems to be, that the space for the comment is much wider than the actual margin. but i don't know how to change this... maybe i'm just using the wrong command for placing marginal notes.
help would be much appreciated.

thanks a lot, warrence

[localghost]

You could try the marginnote package, which makes typesetting marginal notes a little bit easier.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[warrence]

unfortunatly that does not work aswell. same problem.
just to be sure about what we talk i'll post the document:

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\documentclass[11pt, twoside, fleqn]{scrartcl}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman, english]{babel}
\usepackage{marginnote}
\usepackage{geometry}

\geometry{outer=2.5cm,inner=2cm,top=1.5cm,bottom=3cm}

\begin{document}

asjaskgn \marginnote{sdgarh geaugheu rgser gu neri gergu erge rgierhg ruei ershrherh} agnkero ghs hgur guagiweghoa jglfksofnasgnfogjpg ag wrhgo agua gsjpg jaegi rwogjsgjiagprf<fd<ewewefa weuh fgwa gagg a  guahwigha igwuiagh wegi ghiwer ghawg w gagu uighuiarg.

\newpage

asjaskgn \marginnote{sdgarh geaugheu rgser gu neri gergu erge rgierhg ruei ershrherh} agnkero ghs hgur guagiweghoa jglfksofnasgnfogjpg ag wrhgo agua gsjpg jaegi rwogjsgjiagprf<fd<ewewefa weuh fgwa gagg a  guahwigha igwuiagh wegi ghiwer ghawg w gagu uighuiarg.

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi warrence,

set the marginparwidth with geometry

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\geometry{outer=2.5cm,inner=2cm,top=1.5cm,bottom=3cm, marginparwidth=1.9cm}

or directly

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\setlength{\marginparwidth}{1.9cm}

Stefan

[localghost]

At the moment I wonder what language shall be the default language of your document.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Thorsten,

it's automatically the last language listed in the options, so it's english. But perhaps that was just a rhetoric question.
I would not be surprised if ngerman would be intended instead because I remember one user warrance using german version of software.

Stefan

[localghost]

[...] it's automatically the last language listed in the options, so it's english. But perhaps that was just a rhetoric question.
I would not be surprised if ngerman would be intended instead because I remember one user warrance using german version of software. [...]

I'm aware of the current settings. And yes, it was a rhetoric question. I hoped the answer would have come from warrence himself. If the answer is like I expect, the solution is obvious.

[warrence]

hi, and thanks alot. it works with marginparwidth.
and regarding

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\usepackage[ngerman, english]{babel}

i'm using one header-file for several different type of latex-documents. some of them are english and some of them are german. normally i use this line together with

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\selectlanguage{ngerman}

and "english" respectively. i was just to lazy to add the line to this sample-document...
is that the answer you expected?

btw, you don't have any idea where to get a list of measurements latex uses? "marginparwidth" for example. if i would have known, that there is something like "marginparwidth", i would have been able to guess the solution by myself, i think...

and thank you again

[gmedina]

You can use the layout package and its \layout command. A little example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{layout}

\begin{document}

\layout

\end{document} 

[localghost]

[..] is that the answer you expected? [...]

No, it's not. I thought that you erroneously wrote your text in German but with default language in English. This would have caused heavy difficulties in hyphenation. This head-word makes me suggest you the hyphenat package. Perhaps it can solve the problem.