General ⇒ Placement of marginal Notes

[jazzgossen]

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 to get around it?

If I put \marginpar{Margin} after the first word of the second paragraph, I get the result I want, but it is tedious to do so in general -- especially if I would like the \marginpar to be generated by a macro.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
  \blindtext
  \marginpar{Margin}
  \blindtext
\end{document}
 
 
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[jazzgossen]

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

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
  \blindtext
  \hspace{0pt}\marginpar{Margin}%
  \blindtext
\end{document}
 
 
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[cgnieder]

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

But this is also tedious as you have to remember to put the \hspace there. The problem is that \marginpar doesn't enter horizontal mode and thus does not start a paragraph on its own. You can make it to do so with the help of the etoolbox package:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\preto\marginpar\leavevmode
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
  \blindtext
  \marginpar{Margin}%
  \blindtext
\end{document}
 
 
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This has an obvious downside: you'd need to take care that a \marginpar does not make a paragraph on its own:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\preto\marginpar\leavevmode
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
  \blindtext
  \marginpar{Margin}
  \blindtext
\end{document}
 
 
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Regards

[localghost]

It's quite easy with marginnote.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{marginnote}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
  \blindtext
  \marginnote{Margin}
  \blindtext
\end{document}
 
 
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And the downside that Clemens described is irrelevant then.


Thorsten

[cgnieder]

It's quite easy with marginnote

With the caveat of course that the notes won't float and hence are allowed to overlap (which may or may not be a problem to watch out for).

Regards