[OS X TeX] several \marginpar per page

Ben Galin news at bens.ws
Tue Jul 5 15:52:57 EDT 2005


On Jul 5, 2005, at 9:54 AM, William F. Adams wrote:

> On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Sergei Mariev wrote:
>
>> I am working on a text where I need to have several marginal notes on 
>> each page. On top of that, the text does not suppose to have any 
>> paragraphs for over 100 pages. Since the command \marginpar produces 
>> a float and only a limited number of floats is allowed per page (? or 
>> per paragraph?) I am getting the message "Floats lost...".  I am 
>> wondering, is there a way of having more floats on one page without 
>> inserting a new paragraph? (I need on average 7 to 11 \marginpar per 
>> page). Are there any packages that deal with that problem? Is it 
>> possible to place some text on a margin without making it a float? 
>> Any other approaches?
>
> \usepackage{morefloats}

[...]

Also, make sure you don't call \marginpar from within a footnote.  I 
believe the same applies to other environments (e.g. picture) but am 
not sure.  -Ben

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