Using Comment notes the right way

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 21/11/2023 à 07:54, Daniel a écrit :
> I see. But my point was that I don't think that it is specific to my use 
> case. The reason being that the comment feature is a default feature 
> found in many applications these days and that this indicates a quite 
> general usefulness of it.

As I wrote before, the main feature that would make me like a new 
comment inset would be to be able to show the name and color of the user 
who entered it when some in change tracking mode. Having a comment 
feature that is linked to the change tracking machinery would be good. 
The issue of knowing how to typeset them, though, is not that easy.

I also want to point out that Comment notes (mentionned in the subject 
of the thread) have nothing to do with that. These are just notes that 
are visible in the document source, but not typeset. This is in contrast 
with plain notes, that are not exported at all. This question of having 
this potentially private information present or not in the .tex file is 
more important IMO than having it visible to the end user.

Finally, my remark about "MSWord in a box" was undeserved, and I 
apologize for that. I should have fought a bit more the urge of making 
fun of the idea. However, if allowing free spacing in comments is 
considered a worthy feature (after all everybody else does that), then 
why not allow it everywhere then? Everybody has its own habits, after 
all, and I am sure some people would enjoy this.

JMarc