On 2015-04-24, at 09:40, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@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