{Improving margin paragraphs and float control}
{Stephen Hicks}
{Authors using \LaTeX\ to typeset books with significant margin material
often run into the problem of long notes running off the bottom of the
page.  A typical workaround is to insert vertical shifts by hand, but
this is a tedious process that is invalidated when pagination changes.
 Another workaround is \code{memoir}'s sidebar function, but this can be
unsatisfying for short textual notes, and standard marginpars cannot
be mixed with sidebars.  I will discuss a solution I put together to
make marginpars "just work" by keeping a list of floating inserts and
placing them intelligently in the output routine.  Time permitting, I
will also discuss some thoughts on improving \LaTeX's float placement
specifiers.}