rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen) (10/16/88)
Hello, networld.
I'm trying to come up with a way of inserting marginal notes
into my document, but (unlike the |\margin| supplied by the \TeX book)
I want the marginal note to stay as close to the paragraph it
belongs to (instead of floating to the top of the page it appears on).
For example, the text
It is important to note that blargnatzes are not necessarily gnommable,
\margin{Blargnatzes need not be gnommable.}
even though they do possess turliate properties.
would produce
It is important to note that blargnatzes are not
Blargnaztes need not necessarily gnommable, even though they do possess
be gnommable. turliate properties.
(The usefulness of such a marginal note facility should be clear.)
I figure I'd need a whatsit (maybe a carefully-crafted |\vadjust|)
but I can't seem to come up with a viable solution.
(An ideal solution should deal with the case in which a five-line
marginal note is attached to the last line on a page, but right
now, I'd be happy to see anything.)
(I know this is possible, since the venerable Dr. Knuth did exactly
this in his latest book, ``Concrete Mathematics''.)
TIA.
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