Text Formatting ⇒ Margin notes like footnotes?

[erasmuse]

MARGINAL NOTES WITH NUMBERS
Here's a way to have a floating margin note, with special numbers for the marginal notes with an "m" before each number so the footnotes are m1, m2, m3, etc.

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\newcommand{\margincomment}[1]{% a simple margin note
        \refstepcounter{mynote}% step counter
        \mbox{\textsuperscript{\themynote  }*}% the number (superscript) in text followed by a star
        \marginpar{\tiny \mbox{ \textsuperscript{\themynote}*}#1}% the note with number
}
\newcounter{mynote}% a new counter for use in margin notes


Here is my text.\margincomment{Here is my marginal note.}

[erasmuse]

Oops-- in my last post I submitted a version that has not m preceding but * after the number. Here's the m versino.

MARGINAL NOTES WITH NUMBERS
Here's a way to have a floating margin note, with special numbers for the marginal notes with an "m" before each number so the footnotes are m1, m2, m3, etc.

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\newcommand{\margincomment}[1]{% a simple margin note
        \refstepcounter{mynote}% step counter
        \mbox{\textsuperscript{m\themynote  } }% the number (superscript) in text preceded by m
        \marginpar{\tiny \mbox{ \textsuperscript{m\themynote} }#1}% the note with number
}
\newcounter{mynote}% a new counter for use in margin notes



Here is my text.\margincomment{Here is my marginal note.}

[themarshian]

Thanks for this! Two questions.
1) I would like to have my margin notes in the opposite margin. I tried to change the \marginpar to \reversemarginpar, but it did not work. It actually put my margin notes into the main body of text!
2) Is there any way to have these fit into paragraph style? (I use the fnpara package to accomplish a similar effect with my footnotes.)
Thoughts?
James

EDIT: Sorry, I just realized that I was just reading page 2 of this conversation. I am currently using the solution presented by erasmuse, but am willing to try another, if it might work better.
Thanks!

[boitata]

That's an excellent solution. I will use it, but I have a problem: the margin note using \mynote{This is a margin note example} uses a line and half spaces. How can I do margin notes with single line spacing? Regards.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi boitata!

It may be better to post your question in a new topic. It is hard to see on the bottom of page 2 of this topic of 2011/2012. And please post your code with the problem, because it's hard to reproduce with the old code snippets from above that may not match your code anyway.

Stefan