[NTG-context] Re: Text in Margin

[Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>]

Am 19.02.24 um 14:14 schrieb Jeroen:
> In a textbook I am looking to place a large left margin at every page of 
> each chapter. At left printed pages a left margin and at right printed 
> pages a right margin, so like a double sided construction. In this 
> margin I would like to place:
> 
> 1. Keywords and small descriptions to emphasize some text from the textflow
> 2. Figures
> 3. An expansion of a table that is placed in the main textflow but that 
> needs to cover a wider range then the text area so it expands into the 
> margin
> 
> What is the the easiest way to achieve this?

Generally, you use \inmargin, \inouter etc.

Additional to Wolfgang’s suggestions:

If you need sidefloats that cover not only the margin but should 
decrease the text width, you can move sidefloats into the margin like:

\startplacefigure[title={},location=outer]
\offset[rightoffset=-\marginwidth]{\externalfigure[cow][width=0.5\textwidth]}
\stopplacefigure

Beware: it doesn’t work well with captions (I’ve still no solution that 
always works), and \offset understands only rightoffset and leftoffset, 
not outeroffset.
The example is on a right page; you must “pull” the image into the 
margin (rightmargin with negative value), if you try „pushing“ with 
leftoffset=\marginwidth, the text flow is wrong.

Hraban
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