Thanks, I will give Eric’s suggestion a go.
Cheers, M On May 20, 2016, at 3:50 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl<mailto:mb...@mbork.pl>> wrote: On 2016-05-20, at 20:45, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:e.fr...@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 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl_en_Marcin-5FBorkowski&d=CwIBAg&c=kbmfwr1Yojg42sGEpaQh5ofMHBeTl9EI2eaqQZhHbOU&r=T41F_5QsIVBGYhPPUkgYHUp9iPHgs2rOCjs7rfKaTMU&m=BXygbrudx0ZbLjXB7_QSNrR5Nwf_kj7fU2GbMseZG9Q&s=msRYXf0n_C3V5ncax1tSsNPVzKQ8OOotiw7ibezCLxU&e= Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University