Experimenting with margin notes (will use later)

ssfm.tex

@@ -7,20 +7,44 @@
 \usepackage{graphicx}
 \usepackage[fulloldstylenums]{kpfonts}
 \usepackage{float}
+\usepackage{layout}
 
 % Where are our images?
 \graphicspath{{images/}}
 
 % Let's set this as a half-letter sized sheet
 % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/338789/how-to-set-paper-size-to-half-letter-5-5-x-8-5-in-in-amsbook
-\usepackage{geometry}
-\geometry{
+\usepackage[
 	paperheight=8.5in,
-	paperwidth=5.5in,
+%	paperwidth=5.5in, 
+%	margin=0.5in
+% Experimenting with margin notes
+	paperwidth=7.0in,
+	includemp, % This command includes the marginparwidth and marginparsep into body
+	marginparwidth=1.5in, % width of marginal note
+	marginparsep=0.1in, % width of separation space
 	margin=0.5in
-}
+]{geometry}
 \raggedbottom
 
+% Change margin note size
+\usepackage{tcolorbox}
+\newcommand\mpar[1]{
+\marginpar{
+	\begin{tcolorbox}[
+		colframe=blue!50!white,
+		colback=black!03!white,
+		size=fbox,
+		bottom=-1em,
+		width=\marginparwidth
+		]
+		\begin{spacing}{0.8}
+			{\footnotesize#1}
+		\end{spacing}
+	\end{tcolorbox}}
+}
+
+
 % Adjust line spacing
 \usepackage{setspace}
 \setstretch{1.1}
@@ -194,7 +218,7 @@ must be made to anticipate indirect personal gain, such as
 might come with enemy evacuation or destruction of the ruling
 government group. Gains should be stated as specifically as
 possible for the area addressed: simple sabotage will hasten the
-day when Commissioner X and his deputies Y and Z will be
+day when Commissioner X and his deputies Y and Z \mpar{This is an example of right explanatory text.} will be
 thrown out, when particularly obnoxious decrees and
 restrictions will be abolished, when food will arrive, and so on.
 Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the
@@ -207,7 +231,7 @@ a large, though unseen, group of saboteurs operating against
 the enemy or the government of his own country and
 elsewhere. This can be conveyed indirectly: suggestions which
 he reads and hears can include observations that a particular
-technique has been successful in this or that district. Even if the
+technique has been successful in this or that district. \mpar{This is an example of right explanatory text.}Even if the
 technique is not applicable to his surroundings, another’s
 success will encourage him to attempt similar acts. It also can
 be conveyed directly: statements praising the effectiveness of