Re: Marking/highlighting text temporarily

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2015-04-24, at 09:40, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Friday, 24 Apr 2015 at 11:49, Vikas Rawal wrote:
>> 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 inline tasks for this.  If you are exporting to PDF via LaTeX, the
> following LaTeX definition for inline tasks is quite useful:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (setq org-inlinetask-export-templates
>         '((latex "%s\\footnote{%s\\\\ %s}\\marginpar{\\fbox{\\thefootnote}}"
>                  '((unless
>                        (eq todo "")
>                      (format "\\fbox{\\textsc{%s%s}}" todo priority))
>                    heading content))))
> #+end_src
>
> This uses footnotes to put the task information into the document and
> uses a little margin note to indicate that a TODO task is present in the
> text.

Why use footnotes when you can use todonotes?

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/todonotes

It can even make a list-of-todo-notes.  See also

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9796/how-to-add-todo-notes for
more options.

> HTH,
> eric

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University