From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: Marking/highlighting text temporarily Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:58:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87bnieufde.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87a8xyrn39.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlYVb-0006qP-S7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:58:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlYVa-0004qe-QK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:58:47 -0400 Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:40771) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlYVa-0004qS-IR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:58:46 -0400 In-reply-to: <87a8xyrn39.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> 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 , org-mode mailing list On 2015-04-24, at 09:40, Eric S Fraga 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