On 02 Sep 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm writing a book (book class) in which I want to have marginal notes > containing symbols, rather like the Dummies series. As it's a book I'm > using the two-sided layout. > > This works OK using the marginal note command, but after I put a blank > page at the beginning (needed to make the title page etc. appear on the > correct side), the marginal notes come out on the wrong sides of the > pages in the body of the text. > > I found the command \reversemarginpar, which corrects the error except > that the notes are now too far away from the text, right at the edge of > the page. > > Any way to fix this? I tried adding width arguments, e.g. [width=12pt] > and [width=0.5in] without effect. >
Since no one has answered this I have dug further and come up with this bug report from 1999, saying that it is due to a deep problem in the Latex engine: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg05248.html The only workaround suggested is to put \clearpage or \eject above the section header, but of course this introduces an unwanted page break. As far as I can see this makes marginal notes unusuable for the book class. Unless I'm wrong, perhaps it should be documented in the help files? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412
