Re: Pesky sidebars.

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Thursday 09 May 2002 07:12 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 05:17 PM 5/8/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> >Is there something wrong with my overall approach?
>
> Of course -)
>
> You should use the other background mechanism, the atributes one, which (of
> course) is not yet documented since it's quite new and under development
> (details.pdf will cover it).
>
> However, that method would be overkill, so best use a simpler approach. The
> attached file demos it.
>
> (BTW, i haven't used side bars for years and don't expect to use them in
> the future, so testing is for others)
>
> Hans

Yes, testing is for me, I guess.

I ran into a problem. I tried commenting out various lines but could not
define it further. Here it is:
-----------------------------
systems        : begin file sidebar at line 117
(tufte.tex)
! Undefined control sequence.
\tpd\dosetpositionwhd #1#2#3#4->\pdfsavepos
                                            \dolazysavepositionwhd 
{#1}{\noe...
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Of course lots of other error lines follow. Since \pdfsavepos and 
\dolazysavepositionwhd
are macros outside ot the macro I am testing I don't really know where to 
look.

Hints?

John Culleton
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