Description
For books, we should use normal page geometry for pages that don't contain margin elements, like the TOC / Title page.
Discussed in #5122
Originally posted by dominicwhite April 7, 2023
I am writing a Quarto book split over multiple chapter files.
I am trying to add margin notes following this guide here: https://quarto.org/docs/blog/posts/2022-02-17-advanced-layout/
If I add
reference-location: margin
citation-location: margin
to the pdf format section my _quarto.yml
file for the whole book then I get footnotes correctly rendered in the margins in the individual chapters.
However, it also forces other sections, like the title page and the table of contents, to have that same margin, which I do not want.
I would like to have the margin space added just in the chapters (and not on the title page or table of contents), but when I add the two settings above to the top of individual chapter files instead, either using the recommended style from the blog post:
---
reference-location: margin
citation-location: margin
---
or as something like this:
---
format:
pdf:
documentclass: scrreport
reference-location: margin
citation-location: margin
---
then I get regular footnotes instead of margin notes.
Is it possible to turn on margin notes only for certain chapters, and if so, what I am doing wrong with my settings?