Suggestions for optional
The following packages have something in common with the package optional. The packages are ordered in decreasing similarity.
- comment: Selectively include/exclude portions of text
- phfcc: Convenient inline commenting in collaborative documents
- to-be-determined: Highlight text passages that need further work
- luacensor: Securely redact sensitive information using Lua
- comment-pln: Comment macros for use in Plain TeX
- codesection: Provides an environment that may be conditionally included
- version: Conditionally include text
- versions: Optionally omit pieces of text
- renditions: Multiple versions from the same content
- hideanswer: Generate documents with and without answers by toggling a switch
- conditext: Define and manage conditional content
- multiaudience: Several versions of output from the same source
- tagging: Document configuration with tags
- ifthenx: Extra tests for \ifthenelse
- xifthen: Extended conditional commands
- graphicscache: Cache includegraphics calls
- ifallfalse: Compare a string against a set of other strings
- ifthen: Conditional commands in LaTeX documents
- draftfigure: Replace figures with a white box and additional features
- xcomment: Allows selected environments to be included/excluded
- nameauth: Name authority mechanism for consistency in body text and index
- comment_io: A Python script to comment and uncomment lines
- srcredact: A tool for redacting sources
- ed: Editorial Notes for LaTeX documents
- draftcopy: Identify draft copies
- draftmark: Put draft marks on selected pages
- errata: Error markup for LaTeX documents
- minorrevision: Quote and refer to a manuscript for minor revisions
- vertbars: Mark vertical rules in margin of text
- extract: Extract parts of a document and write to another document
- prelim2e: Allows the marking of preliminary versions of a document