Rejoinderoo

Rejoinderoo creates a rejoinder (response to reviewers) LaTeX document based on a CSV file. An example of a generated rejoinder document is shown in example.pdf.

Prerequisites

First, ensure that you have a working Python 3 environment installed.

Rejoinderoo depends on Pick to provide the selection interface for data fields of the CSV file. Install the dependencies using the requirements.txt file.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Step 1) Prepare the response to reviewers in a spreadsheet and export it as a CSV file, like the input.csv.

At least three columns are required to be able to parse the CSV file. Have a look at as an example of

Step 2) Run main.py with two arguments: the input CSV file and the output file name.

# show help
python3 main.py -h

# usage
python3 main.py input.csv output.tex

Step 3)

Select all fields (columns) from the CSV file that shall be included in the generated document.

 $ python3 main.py
 Select at least three fields (ID, reviewer comment, author response)

   (x) ID
   (x) Comment
 * (x) Response
   ( ) Action
   ( ) Where
   ( ) Status
   ( ) Responsible

Color coding of responses

The response boxes are color-coded based on the ID field, which is the first selected field. To determine different reviewers, the prefix of the ID field value is used until the first delimiter (., -, or :). E.g., Rev1.3 becomes Rev1 and R1:3 becomes R1.

In the next step, a custom LaTeX color is created for each reviewer that can be adjusted.

\colorlet{colorRev1}{blue!15!white}

Customization

To customize the generated LaTeX file, you can either adjust template.tex or replace it with your own file. The script will replace the placeholder %%%%%custom-command%%%%% and %%%%%ccomments%%%%% in the template.tex file with the generated content.

License

Copyright © 2023-2024 Andreas Bauer

This work (source code) is licensed under MIT.