[XeTeX] Marginpar problem

[Gerrit Glabbart]

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.