Aside boxes

[Julian]

Context

Hi. Not sure if component feature requests are welcome, obviously feel free to close if not, but I just found this package when trying to avoid cobbling together a sphinx directive + CSS I repeatedly use in sphinx docs, which is a sort of "aside" text box.

Specifically some enclosed text box which is floated (right, say), has the main text flow around it, and contains some aside remark rather than the full width that one gets from an admonition.

Thanks for any consideration, and for writing the package!

Proposal

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[chrisjsewell]

Heya, well I guess you could currently achieve this with grids, in some fashion.

But in general, the interplay between this extension and theme extensions is a little bit "grey" here.
For example, with sphinx-book-theme you can use margin blocks and sidenotes: https://sphinx-book-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content-blocks.html#block-margin-content-with-the-margin-directive.
I feel this is maybe a nicer way to do this, but only something achievable if you have a "full control" of the HTML template

[Julian]

Heya, well I guess you could currently achieve this with grids, in some fashion.

Hello! Interesting. I saw grids in the docs, but for some reason came away thinking I could only use them for a full-width block of content, not if I wanted just what I see sphinx-book-theme calls a sidebar which indeed is exactly what I want.

I happen to be using furo for most of my projects so if as you say this is a grey area and hairy to make cross-theme that certainly is understandable.

[thibgc]

My understanding is that the kind of floating sidebar this proposal is about is the .. sidebar:: directive in reStructuredText (which Sphinx expands).

References:

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html#directives

https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#sidebar-1