Thanks,

I will give Eric’s suggestion a go.

Cheers,
M


On May 20, 2016, at 3:50 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl<mailto:mbork@mbork.pl>> wrote:


On 2016-05-20, at 20:45, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>> wrote:

On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 18:10, Doyley, Marvin M. wrote:
Hi there,

In my group, we typically response to reviewers comments (in latex) by first defining the  following command in the header

\newcommand{\response}[1]{\textcolor{red}{#1}}
then marking up the text as follows

\response{red text}

I try to do the same in org,  i.e., putting
#+latex_header:\newcommand{\response}[1]{\textcolor{red}{#1}}
then \response{BLAH BLAH} in the text. The only snag is that on export I get \response\{BLAH BLAH\}

Easiest solution is @@latex:\response{blah blah}@@ but that will lose you
all the org formatting.  Longer solution is to use environments, such as

#+begin_response
blah blah blah
#+end_response

and define a "response" LaTeX environment, along these lines:

#+latex_header: \makeatletter\newenvironment{response}{\textcolor{red}}{}\makeatother

(untested)

Notice also that commands and environments in LaTeX are not
interchangeable; there are things only commands can do and things only
environments can do.  (Well, not really - technically, I guess,
environments are strictly more powerful than commands, though I'm not
100% sure - but some things are quite difficult to do with environments
and trivial with commands.)

See also
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tex.stackexchange.com_questions_102141_what-2Dare-2Dthe-2Dconsideration-2Dwhen-2Dchoosing-2Deither-2Dnewcommand-2Dor-2Dnewenvironment&d=CwIBAg&c=kbmfwr1Yojg42sGEpaQh5ofMHBeTl9EI2eaqQZhHbOU&r=T41F_5QsIVBGYhPPUkgYHUp9iPHgs2rOCjs7rfKaTMU&m=BXygbrudx0ZbLjXB7_QSNrR5Nwf_kj7fU2GbMseZG9Q&s=u6a29DcYPvJ-0G5l--k-db1OPj9GPF2DO89fbOOfje0&e=

Best,

--
Marcin Borkowski
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