[Tex/LaTex] Margin notes and footnotes in a table environment

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I am working on a translation. The original text has margin notes, and I also need footnotes for commentary.
Some of it needs to be tabulated in big two-column tables.

So I used package longtable because

it spreads tables nicely on several pages,
it accommodates footnotes (table does not).

Problem:
\marginpar command doesn't work with longtable, so the margin notes won't appear when called, but show up the next time you use \marginpar in plain text thus shifting the whole marginal notes.
How can I get marginal notes while in a table environment?

Secondary problem: it would be very nice to use footnotes in marginal notes (that would be counted as a normal footnote, and appear at the bottom of the page).

Best Answer

Ha! I found the solution: it's called \marginnotes an extention on \marginpar. It works with longtable and accomodates footnotes inside margin notes.

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[Tex/LaTex] Layout with captions in margin and margin notes

As others have said, you can use the tufte-book document class. It offers captions in the sidenotes area and a fullwidth environment that stretches across the main text block and the sidenotes area.

\documentclass{tufte-book}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \rule{4cm}{2cm}
  \caption{A black rectangle with lots of text so it fills up some space.}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \rule{4cm}{2cm}
  \caption{A black rectangle with lots of text so it fills up some space.}
\end{table}
\begin{fullwidth}
\lipsum[1]
\end{fullwidth}

\end{document}

If you don't want to use the tufte-book class, then you can use one of the standard ones (book, report) together with the geometry package to change the page layout, the floatrow package to have captions in the margins, and the changepage package to change the margins for a part of a document:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[margin=4cm,marginparwidth=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\floatsetup{margins=hangleft,capposition=beside,
capbesideposition={top,left},floatwidth=\textwidth}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \rule{4cm}{2cm}
  \caption{A black rectangle with lots of text so it fills up some space.}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \rule{4cm}{2cm}
  \caption{A black rectangle with lots of text so it fills up some space.}
\end{table}
\begin{adjustwidth}{-3cm}{}
\lipsum[1]
\end{adjustwidth}

\end{document}

You could also consider using one of the classes from the KOMA-Script bundle (scrbook, scrreprt) or the memoir document class and adapting them to your needs.

[Tex/LaTex] Notes above bottom margin

I think you want "paragraph-style footnotes." You can get these in any document class by loading the footmisc package with the para option. You can also use the memoir class and issue the command paragraphfootnotes.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[para]{footmisc}

    % OR:
    % \documentclass{memoir}
    % \paragraphfootnotes

\begin{document}
This is an ancient\footnote{Possibly first-century Roman.} palindrome:
Sator\footnote{``The sower''.} Arepo\footnote{Apparently a proper name.} Tenet\footnote{``Holds''.} Opera\footnote{``Works''.} Rotas.\footnote{``Broken''.}
Its meaning is unclear but you can make a magic square with it.
\end{document}

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