In Lyx I would like to convert greyed out text into comments. The Lyx environment is lyxgreyedout. I have considered switching to another IDE already and it is not an acceptable solution.
The website below does something similar I think but I don't quite follow it: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg79368.html
If there is some alternate way of allowing comments to show up in a draft but not the final product in Lyx, please let me know.
Use the comment package and then \excludecomment{gray} to redefine the gray environment to be ignored.
Example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newenvironment{gray}{\color{gray}}{}
\usepackage{comment}
\excludecomment{gray}
\begin{document}
...
\begin{gray}
Text
\end{gray}
...
\end{document}
There is also \includecomment{<env>} to define an environment which is simply included. See my answer to Is it possible to keep my translation together with original text? for an example.
\lyxgreyedout, however \excludecomment{lyxgreyedout} doesn't work. I have rolledback the title change in the hopes that a solution to the more general case of redefining an environment will work.
– denilw
Mar 30 '11 at 21:52
\renewenvironment BTW), which was the reason I changed the title.
– Martin Scharrer
Mar 30 '11 at 22:05
\excludecomment{lyxgreyedout}? The expression doesn't work doesn't tell me much.
– Martin Scharrer
Mar 30 '11 at 22:20
\excludecomment{lyxgreyedout} to the preamble of the document, I get many errors saying Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup and a short description of where the error occurs says \end{lyxgreyedout}. I find that it is possible to convince lyx to do what you want but when overriding it's default behavior I get these kinds of errors sometimes.
– denilw
Mar 30 '11 at 22:28
\renewenvironment{lyxgreyedout}[0]{\begin{comment}}{\end{comment}} in the preamble returns one error begin{lyxgreyedout} on input line 2105 ended by \end{document}.
– denilw
Mar 30 '11 at 22:37
comment environment doesn't stack. It reads its content verbatim and discards it.
– Martin Scharrer
Mar 30 '11 at 22:42
comment environments inside other environments (or verbatim environments and similar). They do not work like normal but looking for a text match of e.g. \end{comment} which is never seen because it is inside \end{lyxgreyedout} which isn't expanded/processed while looking for it.
– Martin Scharrer
Mar 30 '11 at 22:53
The best way to approach this is in Lyx is to use branches. See here:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/87672
Briefly, you do to Document => Setting => Branches. There you can create new branches: just write something in the textbox above (e.g. "Longer version") and click 'add'.
Then while editing the document go to insert => branches => "Longer version". It will insert a box in which you can write some further explanations.
In the document settings you can choose which branches to include in the final version and which not to.
You might also consider using PDF annotations with the pdfcomment package.
There's a Lyx module, which at least partly supports pdfcomment. You can use the final option to switch off the comments.
Here's a blog post, how to make it work.
