On 2021-01-08, Dorai Sitaram wrote:
> What's a good way to put a bit of text in the left margin of the
> "current" line?
With ms, I would do this:
.LP
.mk
.po -2m
>>
.br
.po
.rt
Some text.
This results in ">>" being put to the left of "Some text". You can read
about .mk and .rt in 5.22 "Page Motions" in the groff manual. Very
useful requests!
> [...] the marginal-note (I believe this is the technical term
> for this) text isn't required to be multi-line, if that makes the
> implementation any easier.
It certainly does! They're usually called "margin notes", and they're
quite hard to implement (if they are to be multi-line and continue on
the next page etc.).
Best regards
John
