[OS X TeX] OT: But what suggestions do TeXShop users have for collaborative writing

[Claus Gerhardt]

Here is a modified \footnote command for the annotations.

\makeatletter
\RequirePackage{color}
\newcommand{\ann}[1]{\renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{\mbox{$^{\color{red} 
{\@thefnmark}}$}}%
\footnote {#1}}
\makeatother

\newcommand{\rmann}{\renewcommand{\ann}[1]{}}%removing the annotations


Claus

On Jun 15, 2006, at 16:14, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Ross Moore wrote:
>
>> Hello John,
>>
>> On 14/06/2006, at 11:13 AM, John Vokey wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>   Sorry for the OT post, but I was asked today, so I thought I   
>>> would seek further input from other TeXShop users.  When I write   
>>> with multiple authors who also use LaTeX, we simply swap  
>>> the .tex  files back and forth, handling all changes and  
>>> suggestions with in- line comments (i.e., nothing is ever  
>>> deleted, just commented out).   That seems to work well.  For non- 
>>> tex co-authors, I send compiled  pdfs with in-line \marginpar{}  
>>> for comments and suggestions, but,  of course, their comments in  
>>> return are just usually emailed text.   I suppose CVS would work  
>>> as well, but seems like overkill.  Any  other suggestions,  
>>> especially something more TeX-like?
>>
>>
>> \usepackage{soul}  lets you do  Strike-Out and Under-Line .
>> That's a way of marking changes in the LaTeX source, with
>> a clear visual effect within the PDF.
>>
>> This could be mixed with different colours to provide a kind
>> of version-tracking setting.
>> When it comes to the final version, you would only need to
>> redefine \so and \ul to gobble/place there arguments, according
>> to whether they are meant to be discarded or included.
>>
>> For larger segments such as whole paragraphs, then you could
>>      \usepackage{comment}
>> and declare your own  \includecomment  and  \excludecomment
>> markup environments.
>
> There is also the way to annotate temporarily in the margin (Ask  
> Nelly, PracTeX Journal 2005-1):
>
>    \newcommand{\query}[1]{\marginpar{%
>        \vskip-\baselineskip %raise the marginpar a bit
>        \raggedright
>        \footnotesize
>        \color{red}
>        \itshape
>        \hrule\smallskip#1\par\smallskip\hrule}}
>
> It can be turned on/off by
>    \newcommand{\removequeries}{\renewcommand{\query}[1]{}}
>
> An annotation is inserted in the margin as follows
>
>    \query{Here is a comment.}
>
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
>
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