[texhax] TeX "sidenote" challenge

[Eloi Machado]

This sounds really interesting!

Does anyone knows how to do it?




On 8/14/07, Michael Barr <barr at math.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
> Let me hasten to say that this is not something I would actually be
> interested in using since I use almost no footnotes.  But I was just
> reading a book that used sidenotes instead.  The format was roughly this:
>
> --------------------------------
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                               |
>                        ----------
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        | "side- |
>     Main text area     |  note" |
>                        |  area  |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
> ------------------------         |
>                        |        |
>                        |        |
>                        ---------
>
> on recto pages.  On verso the sidenotes appeared on the left.  It was
> quite attractive, if you have to use notes (I hate endnotes unless they
> are used only for citations).  The book was published by Princeton.  If
> you want to look at it, it is called "From Hand to Mouth" by Michael
> Corballis.  Naturally, I started to think how would you implement such a
> style in TeX?  I don't see any way offhand.  TeX's footnote mechanism
> shortens the page to make room for footnotes, but I see no mechanism for
> automatically narrowing the columns.  An output routine can cut pages
> short, but not reformat, as I understand it.
>
> Michael Barr
>
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