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I have a LaTeX document that I wrote, that needs to be reviewed by my boss. What do I send him? The .tex? The generated .pdf?
How will he make his comments?
In the case of the .tex, should I suggest him something like the todonotes package? Or just tell him to edit away, and I'll diff to see his changes? In the case of the .pdf, is it possible to add notes to a pdf?
He is largely competent enough to know how to compile LaTeX and everything, but I'd like to spare him the time and trouble if I could.
I'd like to approach as best as I can to the document review mechanisms in Word, which, I think, are quite good (and to me the only point to use Word at all...)
How would you do? Thanks.
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TrackChanges is a package for collaboratively editing LaTeX documents. It allows multiple editors to make changes and add annotations to a document. These changes and notes will be color coded by editor and added to the compiled document.
In LaTeX, you can use the % (percent sign) to comment out a line of text in your source code. If you'd like to include comments that appear in the PDF of your project, you can use the todonotes package.
How to Open a TEX File. LaTeX documents can be viewed and edited in any text editor, since they're just plain text files. Notepad in Windows, Notepad++, and Vim and are some examples of text editor programs.
The problem with sending someone LaTeX source is that unless they're a LaTeX user themselves they are unlikely to have the necessary software installed. I would recommend sending a PDF, which anyone can typically read on any platform.
It is possible to make annotations to PDF documents. I believe most PDF readers support this out of the box. I'm certain, for example, that Preview on Mac OS X does.
When you get back the PDF with annotations, you can go back and edit the LaTeX sources accordingly. What I think you lose vs. Word is the ability to easily highlight the changes between multiple document revisions. This is not a big deal if you're doing one round with one reviewer, but it doesn't scale so well if this is a major editing project with many rounds of feedback and revisions.
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