Overstriking characters
This may be used, for example, to indicate text deleted in the course
of editing. Both the ulem and the soul packages
provide the necessary facilities.
Overstriking with an “attached” comment may be achieved using the
pdfcomment package, to which you can give optional arguments
with all sorts of detail. The comment text is encoded using an Adobe
‘annotation’; unfortunately, support for these annotations is not a
common feature of PDF viewers, but if you can safely assume
that your audience will use Acrobat Reader, the facility
provides that extra “shine” that business users so love.
Overstriking for
cancellation in maths expressions is achieved
by a different mechanism.
Documentation of ulem is in the package file.
- pdfcomment.sty
- macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment (or browse the directory); catalogue entry
- soul.sty
- macros/latex/contrib/soul (or browse the directory); catalogue entry
- ulem.sty
- macros/latex/contrib/ulem (or browse the directory); catalogue entry
This answer last edited: 2013-08-29
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