From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: Marking/highlighting text temporarily Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 20:52:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87a8xyrn39.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87bnieufde.fsf@mbork.pl> <87zj5xewsp.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ff1c05a5a0f30051481eefa Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YloKu-0004jg-M0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 20:52:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YloKt-00051C-H6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 20:52:48 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c02::232]:36028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YloKt-00050n-5r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 20:52:47 -0400 Received: by pdea3 with SMTP id a3so62853111pde.3 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:52:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Vikas Rawal Cc: org-mode mailing list --e89a8ff1c05a5a0f30051481eefa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Inspired by this conversation, I hacked up this functional comment link: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/04/24/Commenting-in-org-files/ It has a custom link type that exports in html and latex, and when you click on it, it asks if you want to delete the comment. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Vikas Rawal < vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> Why use footnotes when you can use todonotes? > > > > Good question! > > > > It's personal preference: I prefer footnotes as I am often using narrow > > margins and anything more than a boxed footnote number is too > > much... However, it is trivial to change the export template to use > > todonotes if that's what Vikas prefers. > > > > The key message I was trying to get across is the use inlinetasks to > > leverage the capabilities of org for TODO management. > > > > > Thanks all. It has been lovely to see all the various solutions on offer. > I thought I was posting a lame query, and was feeling a little sheepish > when I first sent it. But it has been nice to see these various approaches, > with their little ingenuities. > > Wonderful org friends, thank you once again. > > Vikas > --e89a8ff1c05a5a0f30051481eefa Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Inspired by this conversation, I hacked up this functional= comment link:


<= div>It has a custom link type that exports in html and latex, and when you = click on it, it asks if you want to delete the comment.=C2=A0

John

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Professor John Kitchin=C2=A0
Doherty Hall A207F
De= partment of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburg= h, PA 15213
412-268-7803

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Vikas Rawal= <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote:
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> [...]
>
>> Why use footnotes when you can use todonotes?
>
> Good question!
>
> It's personal preference: I prefer footnotes as I am often using n= arrow
> margins and anything more than a boxed footnote number is too
> much...=C2=A0 However, it is trivial to change the export template to = use
> todonotes if that's what Vikas prefers.
>
> The key message I was trying to get across is the use inlinetasks to > leverage the capabilities of org for TODO management.
>


Thanks all. It has been lovely to see all the various solutions on o= ffer. I thought I was posting a lame query, and was feeling a little sheepi= sh when I first sent it. But it has been nice to see these various approach= es, with their little ingenuities.

Wonderful org friends, thank you once again.

Vikas

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