General ⇒ Why do even pages have bad marginpar layout in twoside doc?

[yoyoimut]

Hi everyone,

Please see my screen shot below to get the rough idea.

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The even-numbered pages have bad marginpar layout. It is not the case for odd-numbered pages.


Do you have any idea to solve it?


Here is my minimal code snippet:

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\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[innermargin=25mm,outermargin=5mm,marginparwidth=50mm,includemp=true]{geometry}

\usepackage{xcolor,lipsum}

\newcommand{\mmp}[1]{\marginpar[\raggedleft\footnotesize\color{red}\fbox{\parbox{\marginparwidth}{\color{blue}#1}}]%
{\raggedright\footnotesize\color{blue}\fbox{\parbox{\marginparwidth}{\color{red}#1}}}}



\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\mmp{\LaTeXe\ is cool. However there are some bugs that can make you disappointed.} 
\lipsum[1-4]

\lipsum[1]
\mmp{\LaTeXe\ is cool. However there are some bugs that can make you disappointed.} 
\lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}

Thank you in advance.



regards,

Yoyo

[frabjous]

I think the problem is that you're trying to put an fbox around something that already takes up the entire width of the marginpar space, and this makes it overextend the space it's given -- LaTeX is overextending it to the right in both cases, and hence, when it's on the left of the text, it bumps into the text. When it's on the right, it just overextends further to the right than it's supposed to.

You'll see all is well if you either get rid of the \fbox command from the definition of \mmp, or change the width of the parbox to something that allows room for the frame (e.g., 4.5cm).

[yoyoimut]

I think the problem is that you're trying to put an fbox around something that already takes up the entire width of the marginpar space, and this makes it overextend the space it's given -- LaTeX is overextending it to the right in both cases, and hence, when it's on the left of the text, it bumps into the text. When it's on the right, it just overextends further to the right than it's supposed to.

You'll see all is well if you either get rid of the \fbox command from the definition of \mmp, or change the width of the parbox to something that allows room for the frame (e.g., 4.5cm).

OK. Thank you for your response.
I will get rid of the fbox and just use simple texts in marginpars.


regards,

Yoyo.