marginpar
In order to define a margin note, I use:
\marginpar{Add formula for curvature}
However, in a thesis full of margin notes, lots of them overlap, and the only solution I've found so far was to manually push them up or down.
Problem is, everytime I refactor the comment, it's a new complete mess…
So, does anyone know how to cleanly manage the sidenotes, so that they "float" to a "best position", and avoid overlaping?
TeX doesn't hyphenate the first word in a paragraph. You can write a \hspace{0pt} before it, then TeX takes this as first word or use lualatex it hasn't such restriction.
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{marginnote}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\renewcommand*{\raggedleftmarginnote}{\RaggedLeft}
\renewcommand*{\raggedrightmarginnote}{\RaggedRight}
\newcommand\Marginnote[1]{\marginnote{\hspace{0pt}#1}}
\begin{document}
foo\Marginnote{Mülltonnenentsorgungsprogramm}
\end{document}
or with an up-to-date TeX distribution (2018) one needs only
\listfiles
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{marginnote}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\begin{document}
foo\marginnote{Mülltonnenentsorgungsprogramm}
\end{document}
*File List*
scrbook.cls 2018/03/30 v3.25 KOMA-Script document class (book)
scrkbase.sty 2018/03/30 v3.25 KOMA-Script package (KOMA-Script-dependent bas
ics and keyval usage)
scrbase.sty 2018/03/30 v3.25 KOMA-Script package (KOMA-Script-independent b
asics and keyval usage)
keyval.sty 2014/10/28 v1.15 key=value parser (DPC)
scrlfile.sty 2018/03/30 v3.25 KOMA-Script package (loading files)
tocbasic.sty 2018/03/30 v3.25 KOMA-Script package (handling toc-files)
scrsize11pt.clo 2018/03/30 v3.25 KOMA-Script font size class option (11pt)
typearea.sty 2018/03/30 v3.25 KOMA-Script package (type area)
fontenc.sty
t1enc.def 2017/04/05 v2.0i Standard LaTeX file
marginnote.sty 2018/08/09 v1.4b non floating margin notes for LaTeX
babel.sty 2018/09/02 3.23 The Babel package
ngerman.ldf 2018/03/29 v2.10 German support for babel (post-1996 orthography)
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I'm surprised this works. The actual location of the origin isn't usually fixed until the picture is completed and the current bounding box is fit into the text area.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\coordinate (here) at (0,0);
\draw (current page.west |- here) node[right]{Margin note};
\end{tikzpicture}%to prevent adding extra space before text
\lipsum[2-4]
\end{document}
Best Answer
Steve Hicks has a new package designed to help with this sort of thing: marginfix