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- From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: LaTeX: putting stuff in margins.
- In-Reply-To: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca's message of Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:50:06 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:35:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.195006.17524@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- In article <1992Nov17.184721.22491@news.stolaf.edu> johnsonm@amcl12.math.stolaf.edu (Michael K Johnson) writes:
- >
- >I would like some help with a LaTeX macro, if someone would be so
- >kind. I need to put $\Diamond$ in the left margin of my text, with
- >the right edge of the diamond .25 in from the left edge of the text.
- >I would like it to be called like this:
- >
- >\blackdiamond This is a paragraph with a $\Diamond$ off the left side.
-
- Thought #1:
- If you are in an itemize environment, and start each paragraph as a
- new item, you might try:
-
- No, unfortunately it needs to be in general text. I had thought of this.
- This will be a general macro that several different people will be
- using to write widely read documentation: I am writing the style
- sheet for linux documentation. The macros need to be transparent;
- hacks just won't cut it...
-
- Thought #2:
- Page 61 of "the book" describes the way of doing marginal notes;
- you'd do something like:
- [...]
- Due to the fact that marginal text USUALLY goes on the right side, and
- I'm invoking a little bit of a hack (C.8.2, page 178) to force the
- note to the left side, the value of this may be a little questionable.
-
- I'm a LITTLE disappointed here that the options allowed on pg 179
- allow only 2 options: \reversemarginpar and \normalmarginpar. I'd
- like to see the "other way" of doing it: \leftmarginpar and
- \rightmarginpar, which forces marginal paragraphs to go to a
- particular side, rather than just reversing things.
-
- My thought exactly. Well, no. I'm a LOT disappointed... ;-) Having
- both would be nice...
-
- You might want to take a quick look at ``The LaTeX Book'' for more
- details.
-
- I have taken more than a quick look already --- that is why I posted
- asking for help ;-)
-
- To re-word: I need to know how to put something off to the left of
- the margin. Once I am there, I know how to set up a box that works
- exactly like I want it to -- I just don't know how to put something to
- the left of the current margin.
-
- Thanks, though.
-
- michaelkjohnson
-