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I want to add a correction to a line, as one would write if they were going through a hard-copy of a paper and found that a word was omitted. I've drawn by hand specifically what I'm after below:

correction made by hand

The original line should be unchanged.

I'm guessing there's a simple way of doing this (e.g. some package), but I don't know how to do it, and I'm not sure what to search for. (I'm also unsure what to tag this question.)

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}

Output $(I_1) = D$

\end{document}
Rebecca J. Stones
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    When I need to do correctios as you in LaTeX, I use the todonotes pakage that allows create a lot of different notes for further revisions and also create a list of thigs to do. Using it with hyperrref is very comfortable, you could try. – Aradnix Jun 12 '15 at 06:05
  • You might check the answers to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/615738/adding-ms-word-like-comments-in-latex – Ferdi Jun 12 '15 at 06:33
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    Unlike @Aradnix I didn't get on with todonotes in this application. Instead I used the rather simpler changes package. It does reflow your text, which you say you don't want, but you may well find you need mutliline insertions which wouldn't work too well with your approach. I also had a couple of custom macros used for adding specific notes (e.g. a wikipedia-style "citation needed") which I could search for in the .pdf to make sure I had done them. – Chris H Jun 12 '15 at 08:34

2 Answers2

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Here's a very simple-minded solution based on my above comments. If these omitted words and so on turn into whole clauses and setences, then you might want a more robust solution. As it is, some care is taken to not affect the existing layout of the paragraphs.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand\correction[1]{%
  \unskip
  \begingroup \tiny
  \makebox[0pt][c]{\raisebox{1\baselineskip}[0pt]{\bfseries [#1]}}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{\raisebox{-0.5\baselineskip}[0pt]{$\wedge$}}%
  \endgroup
}

\begin{document}

Output \correction{from}
 $(I_1) = D$

Output  $(I_1) = D$ I want to add a correction to a line, as one would 
write if they were going through a hard-copy of a paper and found that a 
word
\correction{was} 
omitted. I've drawn by hand specifically what I'm after below:

Output  $(I_1) = D$ I want to add a correction to a line, as one would
write if they were going through a hard-copy of a paper and found that a 
word omitted. I've drawn by hand specifically what I'm after below:

Output \correction{from}
 $(I_1) = D$

\end{document}
jon
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My approach is a colored flag for better readability. As I think that there are no reason to maintain the interline spacing in a draft version, the flag is enough tall to avoid overlapping corrections with the ascenders characters of the text (anyway is fairly simple shorten the flag if this is also required).

mWE 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,xcolor}
\fboxsep.6pt
\def\Add#1{\rlap{\hskip-.15em\color{blue!70}\vrule\raisebox%
{.7\baselineskip}{\fcolorbox{blue!10}{blue!05}{\tiny#1}}}\ignorespaces}

\begin{document}
    Put a litle \Add{flag} whenever \Add{you} need.\par
    Output \Add{from} $(I_1) = D$
\end{document}
Fran
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