LaTeX forum ⇒ General ⇒ Highlighting, and removing highlights.

[letty]

At the moment, I use the packages 'soul' and 'color' to highlight sections of my work. I do this to flag that I'm not happy with what I've written yet, and need to redraft. I want to do this in the finished version so I can see the issue clearly, rather than just putting a %-ed out note in the code.

An example is

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry} % see geometry.pdf on how to lay out the page. There's lots.
\geometry{a4paper} % or letter or a5paper or ... etc
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{color}

\title{Example}
\author{Letty}

%%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
\begin{document}
\maketitle

\onehalfspacing

This is text I'm happy with.

\hl{This is text that I want to flag an issue with}
\end{document}

What I would really like to do is to be able to temporarily suspend this highlighting, so I can print out a non-highlighted version to give to my supervisor. I don't want to go through and take out each \hl{} where I've an issue, as I would like to be able to keep a version that shows my worries for myself, whilst being able to quickly submit a version that doesn't show them.

Simply taking the soul package out of the header for the print-out version doesn't work, as that leaves the \hl command undefined.

Has anyone got a suggestion of a way of doing this? I don't mind if it uses a different highlighting method than the one I'm currently employing.

[localghost]

Probably it's better to use the todonotes package. It can be disabled by giving an option. See the manual for details (Section 1.2 - Package options, p. 3f).


Best regards
Thorsten

[frabjous]

If you want to stick with the packages you're using now, when you want a printable version, you could take out the packages, and add a line defining the command(s) in question to do nothing, e.g.:

\newcommand{\hl}[1]{#1}

Or even leave the packages in, and use:

\renewcommand{\hl}[1]{#1}

to deactivate them. (Then it's just a matter of commenting out that line to put the highlighting back in.)

[letty]

Thanks for the quick response. Todonotes looks like a really useful package, and frabjous's suggestion works really simply for my existing documents.

Thanks again,

Letty.

[woxi]

At the preamble

\let\ht\

[jiyahana]

You can also use the xcolor package with the usenames option to temporarily suspend highlighting. Just redefine \hl to \textcolor{black}{#1} or similar to disable it for printing.