General ⇒ document review tools

[pablochacin]

Hi

I'm new to latex and currently my main problem in the migration from MS Word is more about the way I used to track the document review process. For instance, I used a color code to mark paragraphs or sentences wich need some actions, like "this paragraph needs some cleaning" (yelow), or "this citing is dubtios" (red), or "this text is redundant" (grey) and so for.

Also, I made an extensive usage of comments or annotation in the text (like "this concept hasn't been explained before") which were printed with the document (either is a separate page or to the right of the page.

So far, I haven't found any similar tools in latex. Firts, comments are just ignored in the preparation process. Second, I haven't found how to change the color of a paragraph or sentence.

I would appreciate any suggestiong.

Thanks in advance

[localghost]

For adding notes to your document, you can use

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\marginpar{text}

The marginnote package improves the behaviour of such marginal notes, but you then you have to add

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\usepackage{marginnote}

to your preamble and use

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\marginnote{text}

instead. Color is possible with the xcolor package. It provides some predefined colours and lets you easily define your own.

Refer to the documentation of the packages. You can find packages and their documentations on the servers of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). In many countries there exist TeX User Groups as the TUG (UK) or DANTE (Germany). They all have their own CTAN mirror servers.


Best regards and welcome on the board
Thorsten