[Tex/LaTex] How to avoid getting cropped marginpar

fixmegeometrymarginparmargins

I'm using the fixme package to add notes to various parts of my thesis draft. However, if I set the margins using the geometry package, I notice that the fixme notes are not formatted correctly (with margin overflow). Is there a simple fix? MWE below:

\documentclass[letterpaper]{amsbook}
\usepackage[draft]{fixme}
\usepackage[lmargin=1.3in,rmargin=1.3in,bottom=1.3in,top=1.3in,twoside=False]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\listoffixmes


stuff \fixme{Here is where I would put a really long fixme note, so long in fact that it might seem silly....}

\end{document}

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There doesn't seem to be any problem; the "fixme" notes, for which the command \fxnote should be used instead of the deprecated \fixme, are typeset with the width of the normal marginal notes, which is the parameter \marginparwidth; indeed, adding

marginparwidth=0.5in

to the options passed to geometry typesets the note in a very narrow column.

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You have to tell geometry also the desired width of your marginal notes. Keep also into account that there is the parameter \marginparsep that should be non zero. Therefore something like

\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=1.3cm, left=5cm, right=0.5cm, heightrounded,
  marginparwidth=4.6cm, marginparsep=3mm]{geometry}

should be what you want (4.6+0.3=4.9, so 1mm will be kept clear at the left edge).

The option heightrounded has nothing to do with the problem at hand, but it's better to specify it so that TeX will have less problems filling pages.

[Tex/LaTex] How to get the active left and right margins to use them in a tikzpicture

\Gm@lmargin and \Gm@rmargin are internal macros belonging to the implementation details that might change in any later version of package geometry.

Instead I would use two dimen registers instead of the internals:

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}

\newdimen\myleftmargin
\newdimen\myrightmargin
\setlength{\myleftmargin}{3.5cm}
\setlength{\myrightmargin}{1.5cm}

\usepackage[
  left=\myleftmargin,
  right=\myrightmargin,
  top=2.5cm,
  bottom=2.5cm
]{geometry}

\usepackage{tikz,bm}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning}

% Definition of fancy stuff
% \myleftmargin and \myrightmargin can be used here

\begin{document}

left margin: \the\myleftmargin, right margin: \the\myrightmargin

\vspace{2cm}

  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
      \node[anchor=east,xshift=-\myrightmargin,rectangle,draw=black,fill=white]
 at (current page.east|-0,0) {Section};
  \end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

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