Hi Diego,
I did something similar for "lyxgreyedout" in my dissertation. The
caveat is that both., "lyxgreyedout" and "comment" are environments,
whereas marginpar is a command. So actually you are looking for a
technique to grab the content of an environment in a way it can be
passed to a command.
After hours of googling I had found the trick. The amsmath package
provides a fairly magic macro called \coll...@body to perform this
task.
I have added the respective lines from my thesis preamble. I developed
three variants to typeset the comments, but don't know if the
marginpar variant ever really worked. The tikz variant was way
cooler :-)
Have fun,
Daniel
%*
%** handling of notes
% LyX typesets "greyed out" notes in an LaTeX environment
"lyxgreyedout". By
% redefinition of this environment, we can control how notes are printed
% out in the PDF.
%
% The \coll...@body (provided by amsmath) trick was taken from
%
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/4cc1379654f40925/2316a38e9912fe23?lnk=st&q=+%5Ccollect%40body+1995+&rnum=1#2316a38e9912fe23
% Basically, it can be used to pass all content of an enviroment to a
command.
%% % Variant 1: typeset notes as \marginpar (yet to be completed)
%% \makeatletter
%% \renewenvironment{lyxgreyedout}{\coll...@body\@NOTE}{\global
\...@ignoretrue}
%% \newcomma...@note[1]{\marginpar{#1}}
%% \makeatother
%% \addtolength{\textwidth}{-5cm}
%% % Variant 2: typeset notes as footnotes. We use the bigfoot package
%% % to define our own footnote stack for the notes
%%
%%
%% % The following replaces the default \footnote command by an own
%% % to ensure that ordinary footnotes are always printed first
%% \DeclareNewFootnote{A}
%% \renewcommand{\footnote}{\footnoteA}
%%
%% % This defines the \footnoteNOTE command for the extra stack.
%% % "greyed out" are printed as sans-serif, red colored footnotes
%% % with captial arabic numbering
%% \DeclareNewFootnote[para]{NOTE}[Alph]
%% \renewcommand{\footnoteNOTE}{%
%%\stepcounter{footnoteNOTE}%
%%\textcolor{red}{\Footnotemark\thefootnoteNOTE} \FootnotetextNOTE
\thefootnoteNOTE}
%%
%% % redefine the lyxgreyedout environment
%% \makeatletter
%% \makeenvironment{lyxgreyedout}{\coll...@body\@NOTE}{\global
\...@ignoretrue}
%% \newcomma...@note[1]{\footnotenote{\begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth}
{\scriptsize\sffamily{\textcolor{red}{#1}}}\end{minipage}}}
%% \makeatother
%% % Variant 3: typset notes with tikz as marginpars
\usepackage{tikz}
%% \makeatletter
%% \makeenvironment{lyxgreyedout}{\coll...@body\todonote}{\global
\...@ignoretrue}%
%% \makeatother
%%
%% \newcommand{\todoNOTE}[1]{%
%% \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, baseline=-0.75ex]%
%% \node [coordinate] (inText) {};%
%% \end{tikzpicture}%
%% \marginpar{%
%% \begin{sffamily}%
%% \begin{scriptsize}%
%% \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]%
%% % \draw node[draw=Orange_4, fill=Orange_4!50, text width =
3.4cm ] (inNote)
%% \draw node[draw=Gray_40, fill=Gray_10, text width =
3.4cm ] (inNote)
%% {#1};
%% \end{tikzpicture}%
%% \end{scriptsize}%
%% \end{sffamily}%
%% }%
%% \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]%
%% \draw[draw = Gray_40, thick]
%% % \draw[draw = Orange_4, thick]
%% ([yshift=-0.2cm] inText)
%% -| ([xshift=-0.2cm] inNote.west)
%% -| (inNote.west);
%% \end{tikzpicture}%
%% }%
% Variant 4: ignore them at all -- for the final print
\makeenvironment{lyxgreyedout}{}{}
On 13.02.2010, at 19:51, Diego wrote:
Hi, using LyX I'm trying to convert the "comments" into "marginal
notes".
I tried several things but without luck.
The best shot was like this:
\makeatletter
\...@ifundefined{comment}{}{%
\renewenvironment{comment}[1]%
{\begingroup\marginpar{\bgroup#1\egroup}}%
{\endgroup}}
\makeatother
or like this:
\...@ifundefined{comment}{}{%
\renewenvironment{comment}%
{\marginpar{}%
{}}%
But what I get is only the first character of the text converted.
Like in the attached image.
I searched a lot trying to find how to solve this but without luck.
I found the explanation of what is happening here:http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/csed/solutions/fonts.html
Unexpected Output
Only one character is in the new font
You thought you changed font over a selection of text, but only the
first character has come out in the new font.
You have most probably used a command instead of a declaration. The
command should take the text as its argument. If you don't group the
text, only the first character will be passed as the argument.
What I don't know and wasn't able to find is how to group the text.
Hope someone could help me :-)
Many thanks.
Best Regards,
Die
