Re: Marking/highlighting text temporarily

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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This might be a case where having a link type that supports attributes
would come in handy. Then you could use these like PDF comments. In the
list of PDF comments in Adobe Acrobat for example, there is a checkbox you
can use to check them off when you are done with one. Of course, you have
to store that state somewhere! I think the pdf comment also stores the
author, and maybe other information too like the date and time it was
created.

John

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
wrote:

> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> > Very nice start!
> >
> > - make comment links a different color/face
> > (e.g. https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.el#L360)
>
> Ah, nice -- too bad there's no built-in way to specify a face for link
> types. This looks like it will do nicely, though!
>
> > otherwise, I think item 4 is the most important one on the todo list. We
> > are writing lots of papers this year, so this will be a really helpful
> tool!
>
> Cool, I'll start with that, then.
>
> I also thought of a command that would take what's in the tabulated list
> buffer and convert it into an Org-mode buffer, with the text/comment
> pairs in a two-column table. Then the user could export that buffer into
> some other format and share a "comments sheet" with other people.
>
> A bit at a time...
>
> Eric
>
> > Eric Abrahamsen writes:
> >
> >> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> >>
> >>> Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:
> >>>
> >>>>     On 25-Apr-2015, at 6:22 am, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu
> >
> >>>>     wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>     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.
> >>>>
> >>>> Nice. One small issue is that when I highlight a text and add comment
> >>>> to it, and then delete the comment, one space following the last word
> >>>> is removed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, it would be good to make the comment stand out in LaTeX (and
> >>>> other) exports, preferably by pushing it to the margin (so it does not
> >>>> move everything else).
> >>>
> >>> Hang on a bit, I'm wasting my afternoon expanding this...
> >>
> >> Okay, this is as far as I got today. I changed some behavior from John's
> >> implementation: when following the links, it seemed like displaying the
> >> comment text would be more useful than deleting it -- I think many of us
> >> have "delete-org-link" functions lying around. I also couldn't get the
> >> add-comment thing to work, as it complained when there was no region, so
> >> I changed how that works.
> >>
> >> Lastly, I spent most of my time learning how tabular list mode works,
> >> and haven't actually tested the export. Will save that for tomorrow.
> >> Otherwise, here's the introduction from the Commentary. Comments and
> >> suggestions very welcome!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Provides a new link type for Org that allows you to create comments
> >> on arbitrary chunks of text.  The link prefix is "comment:".
> >>
> >> Add comments with `org-comment-add-comment'.  Following the link
> >> will display the text of the comment in a pop-up buffer.  The
> >> buffer is in special-mode, hit "q" to dismiss it.
> >>
> >> Call `org-comment-display-comments' to see all comments in a buffer.
> >>
> >> See the `org-comment-[backend]-export-style' options for ways to
> >> format comments in export.
> >>
> >> TODO:
> >>
> >> 1. Better export customization options.
> >> 2. What does the ODT comment XML look like?
> >> 3. More functions in the display comment buffer: copy as
> >> kill... what else?
> >> 4. More functions in the comments list buffer, to display, pop to,
> >> delete, and edit comment text.
> >> 5. Is it possible to have multi-line filled tabular list items?
> >> Long comments are not very useful if you can't see the whole thing.
> >> 5. Allow multiple comment list buffers attached to different Org
> >> buffers.
> >> 6. Maybe a minor mode for ease of manipulating comments?
> >
> > --
> > 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
>
>
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