%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-2-28 on page 127.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\sloppy
\setcounter{page}{1}
\addtolength\textwidth{-70pt}
\setlength\marginparwidth{58pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
 \newcommand\marginlabel[1]{\mbox{}\marginpar
    {\raggedright\hspace{0pt}#1}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
 Some\marginpar{ASuperLongFirstWord with problems}
 text with a marginal note. Some more text.
 Another\marginlabel{ASuperLongFirstword without
 problems}  text with a marginal note. Some more
 text. A lot of additional text here to fill
 up the space in the example on the left.
\end{document}
