For books, we should use normal page geometry for pages that don't contain margin elements, like the TOC / Title page.


### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/5122

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<sup>Originally posted by **dominicwhite** April  7, 2023</sup>
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/](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?</div>
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2023-04-10T14:04:44Z
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Don't use 'margin' page geometry in TOC / Title page of books
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/5143