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How to comment in a LaTeX document (Score:1)

by Yanick (3196)

When I wrote my master thesis, oh so many moons ago, what we did to inject comments was to define, for each reviewer, the following two commands in the document header:

\def\yanick#1{\fbox{\footnote {\ }}\ \footnotetext{ From Yanick: #1}} \def\hyanick#1 {}

Then you could pepper the document with comments like so:
Blah blah blah blah \yanick{ Oh, really? } blah blah blah

And if you wanted to hide the comment, but keep it in the document, you just had to switch \yanick into \hyanick. Simple system, but
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  by cyocum (7706)
  
  Wow. Yeah, that is quite simple. I will give it a shot. Thanks!
  - Re:How to comment in a LaTeX document (Score:1)
    
    by Yanick (3196) on 2008.03.24 20:24 (#61772) Homepage Journal
    
    You're welcome. And if you discover a cleverer trick, please don't forget to share it back with us. :-)
    
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