Questions tagged [todonotes]

{todonotes} is a package that helps the user keep track of to-do notes and things to be addressed before the document is complete.

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How to add todo notes?

Is there a simple way to add todo notes to LaTeX documents ? I would like to have these notes in red in the generated pdf and a simple syntax to write them.
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How to hide todo notes without deleting them manually?

I'm using the package todonotes. How can I disable the todo notes for printing my final document? (I know it's possible, but I can't find it and I don't want to (manually) delete all my notes in the document...) I've read the documentation, but I…
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How to keep track of necessary changes ("todo") for a large document?

Working on my Ph.D. thesis I use the fixme package to add notes and comments to my pdflatex document and I have defined several types of notes for easily seeing the difference between "substantial" changes (like "text might be wrong" or "there is…
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Overlapping todonotes

When adding several notes on the same line using todonotes and then one note on the line behind them, its impossible to see which notes belong to which line since the line connecting each textbox to the corresponding piece of text overlap. I made a…
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todonotes: Use only left or only right margin?

Is there any way to force todonotes to place comment bubbles only on the left side of the page, or only on the right side of the page? My corporate document template is two-sided, so todonotes puts the bubbles on the right margin for odd-facing…
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todonotes: How to make literally inline notes without line breaks?

For the following MWE, I need the inline note to be in the same line without extra space or additional line breaks. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{todonotes} \author{diaa} \begin{document} some text \todo[inline]{my note} another…
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Cannot use inline todonotes in a figure caption

I am trying to use inline todo notes from the todonotes package inside figure captions. However I get the following error when I generate the listoffigures. ! Leaders not followed by proper glue. \hfill l.2…
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Multiple lists of to-do-notes

I use the todonotes package to keep track of stuff that has to be done by various persons. At the moment, I use prefixes and colors to track who is responsible for what. However, I'd rather like to have separate lists for all of the people involved.…
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Package todonotes: Mark todo notes as done

As I use the package todonotes, I need to mark todo notes as done. Henrik, the author of the package, has this feature on the list of Things to improve. However, it has not been implemented yet. I came up with a kind of "dirty" solution that works…
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todonotes get cut off in margin of twoside document

I am using the following twoside document layout and the todonotes package. My problem is the \todo{...} notes get cut off in the margin. How can I fix…
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To-do-notes in a separated TeX file

Is it possible to compile a file with the extract package that just includes the \listoftodos (todonotes package) of another file?
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What in my code changed between MacTeX 2017 and MacTex 2019?

I have upgraded from MacTeX 2017 to 2019 and I have this problem that I can\t figure out. Consider: \documentclass[article,oneside]{memoir} \usepackage{letltxmacro} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage[textsize=small, linecolor=magenta,…
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Package todonotes: Display a \todo only the \listoftodos

I know the todonotes package gives me nolist option when calling \todo in order to hide a given entry from the \listoftodos. However, I can't find a way in the documentation to do the opposite of this. I'd like to add an entry to the list without…
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A way to check off todonotes

I recently discovered the todonotes package. It would be great to somehow check the notes as done. I know the creator has this on his "todo list" (funny), but right now its not implemented. My idea was to hide it in the document and to strike it out…
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Adding \todo inside section title

I am using the todonotes package and I wanted to add a note inside a section title like: \section{This is the section heading\todo{We should rethink the section title.}} However, this is throwing the “Not in outer par mode” error. I understand why,…
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