The documentation of marginnote
is your friend:
\renewcommand*{\marginfont}{\footnotesize}
Here is a complete example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{marginnote,letltxmacro}
\renewcommand*{\marginfont}{\footnotesize}
\LetLtxMacro\mn\marginnote
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
What is a lipid? \mn{How's it different from the other functional groups?}
\end{document}
With the package outlines.sty
it also works:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{outlines,marginnote,letltxmacro}
\usepackage[top=1cm, bottom=1.3cm, left=5cm, right=0.75cm, heightrounded, marginparwidth=4.6cm, marginparsep=3mm]{geometry}
\reversemarginpar
\renewcommand*{\marginfont}{\footnotesize}
\LetLtxMacro\mn\marginnote
%\newcommand{\mn}{\marginnote}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{flushleft}
\Large \underline{Chapter 8 \textsc{Lipids}}
\end{flushleft}
\section*{Lipids}
\begin{outline}[enumerate]
\1 What is a lipid? \mn{{\footnotesize How's it different from the other functional groups?}}
\end{outline}
\end{document}
EDIT Added letltxmacro
. Thanks to Werner for his comment.
Have a look at the relsize
package. Package description:
The basic command of the package is \relsize
, whose argument is a
number of \magstep
s to change size; from this are defined commands
\larger
, \smaller
, \textlarger
, etc.
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