Thanks, John! Just what I was looking for (but didn't know how to search for).
--d On Friday, January 8, 2021, 05:19:12 AM EST, John A. <j...@ankarstrom.se> wrote: 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