[OS X TeX] several \marginpar per page

[Ross Moore]

Hi Sergei,

On 06/07/2005, at 2:54 AM, William F. Adams wrote:

> On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Sergei Mariev wrote:
>
>
>> I am working on a text where I need to have several marginal notes  
>> on each page. On top of that, the text does not suppose to have  
>> any paragraphs for over 100 pages. Since the command \marginpar  
>> produces a float and only a limited number of floats is allowed  
>> per page (? or per paragraph?) I am getting the message "Floats  
>> lost...".  I am wondering, is there a way of having more floats on  
>> one page without inserting a new paragraph? (I need on average 7  
>> to 11 \marginpar per page).

I find the prospect of 100 pages without the concept of a paragraph
rather hard to handle, and so does TeX.
It is the \par (implicitly called with a blank line) that allows the
internals of TeX to look for how to arrange things on the page.

Even with lots of paragraphs, in my experience it's hard to get lots
of \marginpar s to fall onto the correct pages. I have some documents
which use pop-up photographs that occur in the margins. Maybe 10+
per page. Invariably there are some which float to the next page ...

>> Are there any packages that deal with that problem? Is it possible  
>> to place some text on a margin without making it a float? Any  
>> other approaches?
>>
>
> \usepackage{morefloats}

    ... this may help --- dunno, since I've not tried it.

>
> If that doesn't work, you'll have to re-write the output routine or  
> wait for LaTeX3 belike, unless you can use Peter Wilson's Memoir  
> documentclass and his sidebar environment will work for you.

A completely different way to do the margin/sidebar may indeed be what
is needed. The question then is how the information appearing there
is to relate to the main text in the body of the page.



Hope this helps,

     Ross

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