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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Marking/highlighting text temporarily
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:19:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wq12vvrk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871tjaxama.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:
>
>> I am revising a long book manuscript, and would like to mark parts of text (not just the headlines) just to remind myself that these need to be dealt with.
>>
>> What could be an the easy way of doing it?
>
> I use footnotes for this sort of thing, but don't find it very ideal.
>
> I've occasionally thought of a link type that operates more like the
> comment feature of Word Processors That Shall Not Be Named. So you'd do
> the following:
>
>
> Aliquam erat volutpat. Nunc eleifend leo vitae magna. In id erat non
> orci commodo lobortis. Proin neque massa, cursus ut, gravida ut,
> lobortis eget, lacus. [[Sed diam. Praesent fermentum tempor tellus.
> Nullam tempus. Mauris ac felis vel velit tristique imperdiet. Donec at
> pede. Etiam vel neque nec dui dignissim bibendum.]][#:I hear all this
> isn't really Latin, but who am I to say?]] Vivamus id enim. Phasellus
> neque orci, porta a, aliquet quis, semper a, massa. Phasellus purus.
> Pellentesque tristique imperdiet tortor. Nam euismod tellus id erat.
>
>
> I'm making up the "#:" syntax, but you see what I mean. The comment
> would disappear, the text would be highlighted somehow, and perhaps it
> could even be exported to a proper comment in ODT, and turned into
> a custom container/environment in other export backends. HTML tooltips,
> marginpars, etc.

Allow me to agree with myself further: I do a lot of translation, and
handle temporary notes-to-self with footnotes. I'd much rather use the
above syntax to wrap questionable passages and put the original text in
the comment. That way I can even share it usefully with editors during
the publishing process. That would probably mean ODT/Doc, but how sexy
would it be to turn in a PDF with marginpar notes?

E

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-24  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-24  6:19 Marking/highlighting text temporarily Vikas Rawal
2015-04-24  6:42 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-04-24  7:53   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-24  7:05 ` Glyn Millington
2015-04-24  7:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-24  7:19   ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2015-04-24  7:38 ` Fabrice Niessen
2015-04-24  7:40 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-04-24  7:58   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-24  8:48     ` Eric S Fraga
2015-04-24 21:38       ` Vikas Rawal
2015-04-25  0:52         ` John Kitchin
2015-04-25  1:34           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-25  4:13           ` Vikas Rawal
2015-04-25  7:47             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-25  9:08               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-26 18:14                 ` John Kitchin
2015-04-27  6:13                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-27 10:27                     ` John Kitchin
2015-04-27 11:11                       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-27 12:37                         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-27 12:58                           ` John Kitchin
2015-04-27 13:06                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-27 23:35                 ` John Kitchin
2015-04-28  2:28                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-28 19:32                     ` John Kitchin
2015-04-29  8:41                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-29  9:57                         ` Rasmus
2015-04-29 12:14                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-29 12:31                             ` Rasmus
2015-04-29 13:57                               ` John Kitchin
2015-04-29 13:52                             ` John Kitchin
2015-04-29 10:39                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-04-29 12:34                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-29 12:51                             ` Rasmus
2015-04-29 13:21                               ` Eric S Fraga
2015-04-29 14:00                                 ` John Kitchin
2015-04-29 14:42                                   ` Eric S Fraga
2015-04-29 14:54                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-29 13:16                             ` Eric S Fraga
2015-04-29 14:56                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-29 13:38                             ` John Kitchin
2015-04-29 21:51                             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-04-30  1:45                               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-30  9:58                                 ` Rasmus
2015-04-30 11:32                                   ` Eric S Fraga
2015-04-30 13:45                                   ` John Kitchin
2015-05-03 13:33                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-05-08 10:19                                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-18  9:57                                   ` Rasmus
2015-05-18 11:48                                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-18 13:16                                       ` Rasmus
2015-05-18 15:44                                         ` Eric S Fraga
2015-05-18 16:31                                           ` Rasmus
2015-05-18 20:49                                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-05-18 15:50                                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-18 16:25                                           ` Rasmus
2015-05-18 16:56                                             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-18 17:28                                               ` Rasmus
2015-05-18 18:36                                                 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-05-19  8:14                                                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-04-28 10:48                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-25  9:04           ` Eric S Fraga
2015-05-18 21:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-28 10:52   ` Alan Schmitt

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