Am Donnerstag 04 Juli 2013, 09:36:14 schrieb Bruce Pourciau:
> In the default format for marginal notes, for the standard article class,
> the note appears to have the same text size, line spacing, and justified
> format of the body text. This seems odd to me. I would expect and prefer a
> standard marginal note to have a smaller text size, smaller line spacing,
> and be ragged right (to eliminate the huge gaps between words that
> justified text has in very narrow spaces), as in the marginal notes of
> Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographical Style, which is often thought of
> as the typographer's bible.
>
> Is there a global way to alter the default format for marginal notes, by
> inserting commands into the preamble? Failing that, is there a one-by-one
> way to get the format I prefer?
Try something like:
\let\oldmarginpar\marginpar
\renewcommand*\marginpar[1]{%
\oldmarginpar{\footnotesize\raggedright #1}}
Jürgen
