CTAN new package marginfix

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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: marginfix
Version number: 0.9
Author's name: Stephen Hicks
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/marginfix
Summary description: Patches LaTeX's marginpar routines to prevent overflowing and misalignment
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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As advertised at TUG 2010 (more or less). 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 \vshift commands by hand, but this is a tedious 
process that is invalidated when pagination changes. Another 
workaround is memoir's \sidebar function, but this can be unsatisfying 
for short textual notes, and standard marginpars cannot be mixed with 
sidebars. This package implements a solution to make marginpars 
"just work" by keeping a list of floating inserts and arranging them 
intelligently in the output routine.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/marginfix
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/marginfix
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
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