ansrev.sty: A LaTeX package for answering reviews.

This package assumes that you are writing a response file with comments from reviewers and your responses to those comments and you want to refer to content of a main file, which is the main paper that will be submitted for review.

Features

Automatic numbering of reviewers and comments.
Customize the color of the responses.
Add labels to reviewer comments using \label{goodcomment}. A reference like \ref{goodcomment} will expand to something like Reviewer 3 Comment #2.
The response file can use \cite{} to cite references in the main file and the references will use the format and numbering of the bibliography of the main file. The response file does not need to load any bib files to achieve this.

NOTE: If a reference is NOT cited in the main file, it will appear as missing in the response file. After adding a new reference, you need to compile the main file completely before the response file can find the reference.
The response file can use labels from the main file: If the main file contains \label{fig1}, then a response can use \ref{fig1} and even \pageref{fig1} to refer to the main file.
If the main file loads the package revquote.sty, then the main file can define text to quote like:
```
\revquote{somelabel}{% We want to quote this.
Something to quote in the responses.}
```
and the response file can quote it like:
```
A quote from Section~\ref{sec:somelabel} on page~\pageref{somelabel}:
\revquotefrom{somelabel}
```
The above will expand to the quoted text and it will mention the Section and page number where the quote is located in the main file.

See an example of a main file (example-main.tex) and of a response file (example-ansrev.tex).

Options

main: Filename without .tex extension that contains the main file (the revised paper). Labels and references used in the main file will become available in the response file. For the use of cross-references in Overleaf, the following should be added to a file .latexmkrc in the root folder:

add_cus_dep( 'tex', 'aux', 0, 'makeexternaldocument' );
sub makeexternaldocument {
    if (!($root_filename eq $_[0]))
    {
        # FOR PDFLATEX
        system( "latexmk -cd -pdf \"$_[0]\"" );

        # FOR LATEX+DVIPDF
        # system( "latexmk -cd \"$_[0]\"" );

        # FOR XELATEX
        # system( "latexmk -cd -xelatex \"$_[0]\"" );
      
        # FOR LUALATEX
        # system( "latexmk -cd -lualatex \"$_[0]\"" );
   }
}

anscolor=: specify a color for the responses. The default is anscolor=black.
hidebib=[true|false]: whether to show or hide the bibliography in the response file. The default is hidebib=true, which hides the bibliography (it already appears in the main file).
breakafterQ=[true|false]: whether to add a line break after Comment #n:. The default is true.

Usage

This package defines several commands:

\AssociateEditor starts a section of comments by the associate editor.
\Reviewer starts a section of comments by a new reviewers. Reviewers are numbered automatically.
\QA{comment-by-reviewer}{answer-to-the-comment} for responding to reviewer's comments. The comments are numbered automatically. Labels created within the comment will reference the reviewer and comment number.

revquote.sty

Defines the command:

\revquote{LABEL}{TEXT TO QUOTE}

where LABEL is a label similar to the one use for \label{} and TEXT TO QUOTE is some arbitrary text.

The quote can be used as:

\revquotefrom{LABEL}

MLopez-Ibanez/ansrev

ansrev.sty: A LaTeX package for answering reviews.

Features

Options

Usage

revquote.sty