Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Juergen> Now I send them the typesetted PDF files to proofread an/or > Juergen> give the imprimatur. If I have comments [...] > > Interesting. And how do you use \pdfremark with word?
I do not understand. On this stage, word is out of play. People are using (and forced to use) Acroread (or Acrobat, if they're lucky). With the latter, they can edit my notes or place answers next to them. To rephrase it: when you are colloberating with people who are using word and you are typesetting a book with LaTeX, Acroread and its own reviewing tools are they only choice from the point of time on, where you are working on the real layout. Word has a similar "comment" feature, though. I don't know, however, if pdfwriter exports those to PDF comments. Wrt change tracking, I'd say that comments are the better choice when you want to insert "meta" comments about the texts, whereas change tracking fits better to visualize actual changes on the text. > My question is about its use with LaTeX, versus classical things like > margin notes. Margin notes are severly limited in space (comments might easy be 5 Sentences long), and they can not be exactly placed at a certain token (imagine comments like "Here I have added a missing comma"). Furthermore, they cannot be (sensibly) edited with the PDF editors, and last, they are printed, while Comments are only for screen proofreading, and don't need to be removed before printing (I know that you can define a draft mode etc.; but IMO marginal notes are not really made for reviewing tasks, even if you can use them for this; in fact they are, like footnotes, a real part of the (printed) document). Jürgen
