zebra-goodies

A collection of handy note-taking macros such as todo and comment. It is primarily intended for draft and review workflows.

Options

• draft: boolean option, whether to show the notes. Enabled by default. Example to disable it:

  \usepackage[draft=false]{zebra-goodies}
  % or use the complementary option "final"
  \usepackage[final]{zebra-goodies}
  

• microtypeexpansion: boolean option, whether to enable microtype font expansion. Enabled by default. zebra-goodies ensures microtype is loaded. Example to disable expansion while keeping microtype loaded:

  \usepackage[microtypeexpansion=false]{zebra-goodies}
  % or use the complementary option "nomicrotypeexpansion"
  \usepackage[nomicrotypeexpansion]{zebra-goodies}
  

• Engines without font expansion support still fall back to expansion=false automatically.
• hyperref: boolean option, whether to load package hyperref. Enabled by default. Example to disable it:

  \usepackage[hyperref=false]{zebra-goodies}
  % or use the complementary option "nohyperref"
  \usepackage[nohyperref]{zebra-goodies}
  

• listofnotes: boolean option, whether to print the summary table and detailed note list at the end of the document. Enabled by default. Example to disable it:

  \usepackage[listofnotes=false]{zebra-goodies}
  % or use the complementary option "nolistofnotes"
  \usepackage[nolistofnotes]{zebra-goodies}
  

Take Notes

Add comments, todos, and notes during drafting in a visible way. The package also prints a summary table and a detailed note list at the end of the document. The predefined commands are:

\todo[<who>]{bla bla}
\fixed[<who>]{bla bla}
\comment[<who>]{bla bla}
\note[<who>]{bla bla}
\placeholder[<who>]{bla bla}

If any of these short names does not work, it is very likely that another package has already defined it. zebra-goodies does not overwrite existing commands, so use the always-available prefixed forms instead:

\zebratodo[<who>]{bla bla}
\zebrafixed[<who>]{bla bla}
\zebracomment[<who>]{bla bla}
\zebranote[<who>]{bla bla}
\zebraplaceholder[<who>]{bla bla}

Define new Notes

% \zebranewnote{<note name>}{<xcolor color>}

\colorlet{mycyan}{cyan}
\zebranewnote{question}{mycyan}

\question[who]{what's this?}

Use Colors

Several colors are provided via xcolor for plotting:

• zebrablue
• zebrared
• zebrayellow
• zebrapurple
• zebragreen

Author

Ruini Xue <xueruini@gmail.com>

License

Copyright (C) 2016-2026, Ruini Xue

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), version 1.3c. The latest version of this license is at:

http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

This work is "maintained" (as per LPPL maintenance status) by Ruini Xue.