[texhax] \marginpars on left

[Uwe Lück]

At 14:48 07.03.09, Michael Barr wrote:
>I have been trying to get \marginpars to print all on the left (in a
>two-sided style).  It appears to me that
>\newcommand\xlabel[1]{\marginpar[#1]{}\label{#1}}
>should do it, but it actually prints nothing on odd numbered pages.

The mandatory argument of \marginpar is typeset on right pages, unless 
\reversemarginpar.

>Is there an easy way of doing this?

Kernel LaTeX seems not to support this, but marginal.sty from sttools seems 
to do it with \onesidemarginals (not tested).

You may need the feature at first lines of paragraphs only, you could then 
start such a paragraph with \xlabel and something like

     \newcommand\xlabel[1]{%
         \llap{#1\hspace\marginparsep}%
         \label{#1}\ignorespaces}

Cheers,

     Uwe.