Re: [Groff] sidebars

[Dale Snell]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:46:05 -0400, in message
address@hidden, James K.
Lowden wrote:

> While I'm in the groff neighborhood, I'd like to ask for advice for a
> style of layout I don't see any direct support for.  
> 
> Readers of this list might have read The Annotated Alice.  The text of
> Alice in Wonderland is full size, and the outer edges of the page have
> copious side-notes whose vertical location coincides with the text
> they're commenting on.  Reading the text, the reader can easily refer
> to the running commentary along the edge.  Depending on mood and
> interest, sometimes the commentary is more interesting than the text
> itself.  
> 
> Like footnotes, the sidenotes are distinguished from the main text by
> the font size.  Unlike footnotes, they alternate location on odd and
> even pages.  
> 
> I don't see any simple way of using .2C in -ms to emulate that layout,
> nor does .MCO in MOM look suitable. I suppose it requires a whole
> different set of macros.  How would you approach it?  

Check out MOM's "Margin Notes".  I've never had need of them, but
they sound like just what you want.

--Dale

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