General ⇒ Flexibility for Definition of new Command

[Dangi]

Hi!

I need a way to mark parts in my thesis as preliminary. I want to be flexible in the way to set the unfinished text apart from the finished text.

When I have \newcommand{\fixit}{\Large}. I then use it as follows.

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{\fixit here are rough ideas that need pondering}

Sadly, if I decide I want another way of distinguishing the texts I am not flexible:

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\newcommand{\fixit}{\emph}       %consider \marginpar instead of \emph

The use is like this.

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\fixit{here are rough ideas that need pondering}

I would have to go through all the pages and set the braces manually at its new place. This is what I absolutely want to avoid. Also I don't want to write a string substitution program .

I'm not clinging to \newcommand if a better idea suits the purpose.

I believe LaTeX offers a solution. Only I don't find it, please help.

[cgnieder]

Hi Dangi,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

For every font changing command like \emph{}, \textit{}, \textbf{}, \textsc{} etc there is also a switch: \em, \itshape, \bfseries, \scshape.

This means defining

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\newcommand{\fixit}{\em}

would work for you example.

I would probably define the command in a slightly different way, though:

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\documentclass{article}

\newcommand\fixit[1]{{\fixitformat{#1}}}
\newcommand\fixitformat{\Large}

\begin{document}

Text \fixit{Text} Text

\renewcommand\fixitformat{\emph}

Text \fixit{Text} Text

\end{document}

By the way: there are some packages which help for tasks like this: todo, todonotes, changes just to mention a few.

Regards

[Dangi]

Hi cgnieder,

and thanks for your reply! It works with your code suggestion for the definition! I also had a look at the suggested packages, great help!

Dangi