Help me get my annotation on!
April 1, 2012 5:12 PM Subscribe
What is the best text-editor/document writing type software (or best tips if using MS Word) to use when making annotations beside the text, rather than foot or end notes?
TeX/LaTeX is an editor-agnostic typesetting system that is incredibly powerful. It is free. Files are plain text so that they can be easily moved from Windows-based PCs to Macs to Linux systems.
To write a note in the margins using LaTeX, one would simply type:
\marginpar{Whatever text we want to have in the margin ... it could include pictures!)
Lyx is an editor that is designed to use LaTeX as a backend which may make it a bit easier to get started with ... but I'd recommend LaTeX.
BTW, to add a footnote in LaTeX, one writes
\footnote{Whatever text we want...}.
TeX/LaTeX files get processed and result in pdf documents (other formats are available).
posted by aroberge at 5:44 PM on April 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
To write a note in the margins using LaTeX, one would simply type:
\marginpar{Whatever text we want to have in the margin ... it could include pictures!)
Lyx is an editor that is designed to use LaTeX as a backend which may make it a bit easier to get started with ... but I'd recommend LaTeX.
BTW, to add a footnote in LaTeX, one writes
\footnote{Whatever text we want...}.
TeX/LaTeX files get processed and result in pdf documents (other formats are available).
posted by aroberge at 5:44 PM on April 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
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posted by DanW at 5:25 PM on April 1, 2012