AW: [OS X TeX] Memoir, marginpar and font size

[Thomas Käufl]

----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
> Von: Michael Giffin <mijogiffin at gmail.com>
> An: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 20. August 2009, 05:58:43 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: [OS X TeX] Memoir, marginpar and font size
> 
> See this webpage:
> 
> http://www.f.kth.se/~ante/latex.php
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Robert Lovewrote:
> > Does anyone know how to change the size of the text in a margin note?  I
> > would think Memoir would make it smaller than the text in the body of the
> > document.


Hi,

to have the appropriate fontsize for notes in the
margin I use the command presented below.

\newcommand{\randbem}[1]{\marginpar[\mbox{\begin{minipage}[t]{40mm}
    \fontsize{9}{10}\selectfont\raggedleft#1
  \end{minipage}}]{\fontsize{9}{10}\selectfont\parbox[t]{40mm}{\raggedright#1}}}

The fontsize of the document is 12 Point, so a fontsize
of 9 for the margin notes seemed appropriate to me.

Thomas Käufl