[XeTeX] Marginpar problem

Nicolas Vaughan nivaca at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 05:22:01 CEST 2009


PS. With the Memoir class you don't need to load any more packages to get
your margin notes working fine.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recommend you to use the sidepar command, instead of the maginpar
> command. It doesn't create the notes as floats, so you'll not have those
> problems.
> Check the syntax and explanation in the Memoir manual.
> Best,
>
> Nicolás
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:12 PM, David Perry <hospes.primus at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> I'm using memoir for a book with margin paragraphs and captions in the
>> margin.  Gerrit is right about margin paragraphs being floats.
>>
>> 1) are there any other floats (tables, figures, whatever) that are not
>> being placed and blocking subsequent floats/marginpars?
>>
>> 2) I find that I need to include the command \strictpagecheck at the
>> beginning of the document; the memoir manual says this helps keep marginpars
>> on the correct side (inner or outer margin) when using two-sided pages.
>>  This is not exactly the problem you are having, but if LaTeX gets confused
>> about which marginpars go where then it might think there was not enough
>> room on a page, even though there really is.
>>
>> 3) despite 2), sometimes my marginpars end up on the wrong side, but
>> running XeLaTeX a second (sometimes even third) time restores them (but you
>> probably tried that).  LaTeX/memoir can definitely get out of synch with
>> itself when putting things in the margin.
>>
>> Good luck --
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> Gerrit Glabbart wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 09.08.2009 um 21:19 schrieb Gareth Hughes:
>>>
>>>  Although this not exactly a XeTeX issue, I'd thought I'd ask first here.
>>>>
>>>> I'm setting an edited text in the memoir class with XeLaTeX and need to
>>>> place small amounts of text (8 characters long) in the margins, at most
>>>> two per page. I'm using the \marginpar command. All was working fine
>>>> until I extended the text and got the error 'Too many unprocessed
>>>> floats'. Of course, no minimal example is available for this. Can anyone
>>>> tell me what might be going on, and how the situation might be resolved?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you aware of the marginnote package? Its manual says, in the very
>>> first paragraph, that the \marginpar command "creates a special kind of
>>> float", causing problems particularly with "regular" floats or footnotes,
>>> for example. I'm guessing these special floats are the ones referred to in
>>> the log. The marginnote package was written to solve some of float-related
>>> problems of \marginpar, however, the author (M. Kohm, of KoMa-Script fame)
>>> warns "there might be other problems" (which he doesn't specify). Still,
>>> might be worth a try?
>>>
>>> Good luck,
>>> Gerrit.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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