Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > Vikas Rawal <vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org> writes: > >> 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 footnotes for this sort of thing, but don't find it very ideal. > > I've occasionally thought of a link type that operates more like the > comment feature of Word Processors That Shall Not Be Named. So you'd do > the following: > > > Aliquam erat volutpat. Nunc eleifend leo vitae magna. In id erat non > orci commodo lobortis. Proin neque massa, cursus ut, gravida ut, > lobortis eget, lacus. [[Sed diam. Praesent fermentum tempor tellus. > Nullam tempus. Mauris ac felis vel velit tristique imperdiet. Donec at > pede. Etiam vel neque nec dui dignissim bibendum.]][#:I hear all this > isn't really Latin, but who am I to say?]] Vivamus id enim. Phasellus > neque orci, porta a, aliquet quis, semper a, massa. Phasellus purus. > Pellentesque tristique imperdiet tortor. Nam euismod tellus id erat. > > > I'm making up the "#:" syntax, but you see what I mean. The comment > would disappear, the text would be highlighted somehow, and perhaps it > could even be exported to a proper comment in ODT, and turned into > a custom container/environment in other export backends. HTML tooltips, > marginpars, etc.
Allow me to agree with myself further: I do a lot of translation, and handle temporary notes-to-self with footnotes. I'd much rather use the above syntax to wrap questionable passages and put the original text in the comment. That way I can even share it usefully with editors during the publishing process. That would probably mean ODT/Doc, but how sexy would it be to turn in a PDF with marginpar notes? E
