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I am trying to change the linespacing within a marginnote such that it is different from the main document. I have tried all approaches described in Temporarily increase line spacing and Aligning margin note with line spacing different from main text, but none of them worked. Any ideas?

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{marginnote}
\begin{document}

\setstretch{1.25}

\renewcommand{\a}{One Two Three Four Five }

\newcommand{\newdef}[2][0]{\marginnote{{\setstretch{0.8}\emph{#2}}}[#1\baselineskip]}

\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\newdef{spanning multiple lines}
\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a

\end{document}

enter image description here

Using

\newcommand{\newdef}[2][0]{\marginnote{{\setstretch{0.6}\emph{#2}\endgraf}}[#1\baselineskip]}

\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\newdef{spanning multiple lines; in this case even more than tree}
\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a

I get enter image description here

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Florian
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  • the image in your edit (for which you show no source) is expected behaviour if you specify a baselineskip that is not large enough to fit in the letters, note the descender on the p. Why do you want to reduce baselineskip so much without reducing the font size? – David Carlisle Feb 19 '15 at 18:45

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Delete a spurious {} group that is reverting the change before the end of the note:

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{marginnote}
\begin{document}

\setstretch{1.25}

\renewcommand{\a}{One Two Three Four Five }

\newcommand{\newdef}[2][0]{\marginnote{\setstretch{0.8}\emph{#2}}[#1\baselineskip]}

\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\newdef{spanning multiple lines}
\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a

\end{document}
David Carlisle
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  • Unfortunately, this did not help. The result is the same as in my updated question. – Florian Feb 19 '15 at 18:34
  • @Florian in the original question the linespacing did not change and you asked how to change it for example by 0.8. this answers that exactly. If that is not what you want edit your question to state in words what you do want. – David Carlisle Feb 19 '15 at 18:37
  • The problem is not about the linespacing value in itself, but about the fact that starting from the third line the linespacing seems not to be respected. I can understand that this was not clear. – Florian Feb 19 '15 at 18:39
  • @Florian then make an example that has three lines, and ask about that (whatever that issue is it is unrelated to the original problem where the linespacing was not changed at all) – David Carlisle Feb 19 '15 at 18:41
  • @Florian if you set text of the same size on a baseline reduced to 80% then there is no room for the larger letters so even spacing is impossible, that is unrelated to \marginpar – David Carlisle Feb 19 '15 at 18:43
  • @DavidCarlisle: If you change the spanning multiple lines for a longer text like \a\a, one can notice that the first lineskip is larger than the rest following it. This seems to be a \marginnote related issue, since in your answer here it does not happen with \marginpar. Any ideas how to force the first lineskip to match the others? – Matti Aug 26 '18 at 06:55
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Here I put it in a \parbox.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{marginnote}
\begin{document}

\setstretch{1.25}

\renewcommand{\a}{One Two Three Four Five }

\newcommand{\newdef}[1]{\marginnote{\setstretch{.6}\parbox[t]{\marginparwidth}{\emph{#1}}}}

\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a on this line\newdef{spanning multiple lines we can try this}
\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a

\end{document}

enter image description here

Steven B. Segletes
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  • This is weird. While this solution seems to work for three lines, it does not work for four: http://i.imgur.com/Qm87gyC.png – Florian Feb 19 '15 at 18:43
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    @Florian the number of lines is unrelated to your problem, it is just the position of ascenders and descenders in the text that you use. – David Carlisle Feb 19 '15 at 18:46
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    I see, thank you. I was not aware that there is an interdependence between the linespacing and the font size. At least I would have expected that the lines 'overlay' equally. – Florian Feb 19 '15 at 18:50
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    @Florian If you reduce the baselineskip by 0.8 you are specifying a 10pt font on a 9.6pt baseline, Tex can no maintain an even spacing given such a requirement. – David Carlisle Feb 19 '15 at 18:50
  • @Florian but the MWE you originally posted did not have this problem at all as the spurious {} group meant that the baselineskip did not change at all. – David Carlisle Feb 19 '15 at 18:51
  • The \pbox solves the spacing problem, but I get a lot of underfull box warnings in my real document where I have dozens of marginnotes. Any quick ideas how to fix them? – Matti Mar 07 '19 at 14:37
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    @Mappi Use \raggedright, as in \newcommand{\newdef}[1]{\marginnote{\setstretch{.6}\parbox[t]{\marginparwidth}{\raggedright\emph{#1}}}} – Steven B. Segletes Mar 07 '19 at 14:43
  • @Mappi If you don't like the look of \raggedright, you could replace it with \sloppy, though that might still have underfull boxes. – Steven B. Segletes Mar 07 '19 at 14:45