<div>This sounds really interesting! </div>
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<div>Does anyone knows how to do it?</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Barr</b> <<a href="mailto:barr@math.mcgill.ca">barr@math.mcgill.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Let me hasten to say that this is not something I would actually be<br>interested in using since I use almost no footnotes. But I was just
<br>reading a book that used sidenotes instead. The format was roughly this:<br><br>--------------------------------<br> |<br> |<br> |
<br> |<br> |<br> |<br> |<br> |<br> |<br> |
<br> |<br> |<br> ----------<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |<br>
| "side- |<br> Main text area | note" |<br> | area |<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |
<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |
<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |<br> | |<br>------------------------ |
<br> | |<br> | |<br> ---------<br><br>on recto pages. On verso the sidenotes appeared on the left. It was<br>quite attractive, if you have to use notes (I hate endnotes unless they
<br>are used only for citations). The book was published by Princeton. If<br>you want to look at it, it is called "From Hand to Mouth" by Michael<br>Corballis. Naturally, I started to think how would you implement such a
<br>style in TeX? I don't see any way offhand. TeX's footnote mechanism<br>shortens the page to make room for footnotes, but I see no mechanism for<br>automatically narrowing the columns. An output routine can cut pages
<br>short, but not reformat, as I understand it.<br><br>Michael Barr<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>Mailing list archives:
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