collabcomment

The collabcomment package makes leaving comments for your collaborators a better experience. While many such packages already exist, collabcomment is unique due to its simplicity and implementation in LaTeX3, without losing the power of comparable packages. It supports the following features:

• Leave coloured comments and to-dos in your LaTeX document.
• Create custom authors with their own colour.
• Comments and to-dos are numbered and fully compatible with hyperref.
• Collect all to-dos/comments into a hyperlinked list grouped by author.
• Use the final package option to get rid of all comments and lists.
• Mark to-dos as complete to remove them from the text, but still appear in the to-do list.

Installation

Run the following in the command line:

1. If collabcomment.ins is present: pdflatex collabcomment.ins
2. If collabcomment.ins is absent: pdflatex collabcomment.dtx

Move .sty and .cls files to a folder that TeX can find.

Documentation

Run the following in the command line:

pdflatex collabcomment.dtx
makeindex -s gind.ist -o collabcomment.ind collabcomment.idx
makeindex -s gglo.ist -o collabcomment.gls collabcomment.glo
pdflatex collabcomment.dtx
pdflatex collabcomment.dtx

This automatically unpacks the package, as well.

If you are looking for comments or documentation, you won't find any in the source. These packages make use of literate programming, which means that the documentation is given in the form of a pdf file. You can probably find collabcomment.pdf in this folder, by running "texdoc --view collabcomment" in the command line, or Googling "[your distribution] how to find package documentation". If you're using MiKTeX, open MiKTeX console, go to "Documentation" and look for "collabcomment".

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