Conditional (and colorful) comments for a happy LaTeX drafting of your PhD thesis or whatever you're doing :)

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Conditional (and colorful) comments for LaTeX drafting

With this simple script you'll be able to add colorful:

• Comments (Orange): Things that you want to say about the text but are not the text),
• TODOs (Red): Things you want to note to do in the future keep track), and...
• Skeleton (Green): Those things that you (or maybe it's just me) write to organize what you are writing.

While editing use:

\comment{Your super-important comment}

\todo{That thing that you are obviously procrastinating}

\skeleton{Comments about dissertation structure}

You'll be able to take them out independently from your text for submission/revision with a simple edition of this script. Just comment out those you want to forget about on your next compilation. E.g. %\toggletrue{comments} will make comments disappear!

conditionalComments.tex

% Enable fancy colors for Comments
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}

% Create conditional comments
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newtoggle{comments} 
\newtoggle{skeleton} 
\newtoggle{todo}

% All active by default. Because it is what you'll need while drafting!
% Comment them at will before compiling to make them dissappear
\toggletrue{comments} 
\toggletrue{skeleton}
\toggletrue{todo}

% Simplified commands for a hassle free edition
\newcommand{\comment}[1]{\iftoggle{comments}{{\color{Orange}#1}}\\}
\newcommand{\skeleton}[1]{\iftoggle{skeleton}{{\color{Green}#1}}\\}
\newcommand{\todo}[1]{\iftoggle{todo}{{\color{Red}#1}}\\}