[texhax] Placing data in margin

[Thomas Schneider]

Reinhard:

> What's wrong with Phil's suggestion?

Nothing!

> It doesn't depend on external programs.  Your suggestion depends on
> PostScript for no apparent reason.

The package is part of the standard LaTeX distribution, so it doesn't
require installation.  pstricks has some other properties - one could
draw a circle around the text, for example, that make it more
powerful.  I suppose if one wanted to avoid PostScript to be able to
use pdflatex, then it would not be a solution.

By the way, why does pdflatex prevent one from reading in postscript? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PdfTeX

Tom

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