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
- multiaudience: Several versions of output from the same source
- tagging: Document configuration with tags
- version: Conditionally include text
- xcomment: Allows selected environments to be included/excluded
- xifthen: Extended conditional commands
- luacensor: Securely redact sensitive information using Lua
- comment-pln: Comment macros for use in Plain TeX
- ifthen: Conditional commands in LaTeX documents
- codesection: Provides an environment that may be conditionally included
- versions: Optionally omit pieces of text
- renditions: Multiple versions from the same content
- conditext: Define and manage conditional content
- hideanswer: Generate documents with and without answers by toggling a switch
- ifthenx: Extra tests for \ifthenelse
- graphicscache: Cache includegraphics calls
- ifallfalse: Compare a string against a set of other strings
- switch: A constant time/expandable switch/case
- makegobbler: Keep or drop some part of LaTeX source code
- prelim2e: Allows the marking of preliminary versions of a document
- draftfigure: Replace figures with a white box and additional features
- changebar: Generate changebars in LaTeX documents
- changes: Manual change markup
- draftwatermark: Put a grey textual watermark on document pages
- fixme: Collaborative annotation tool for LaTeX
- vertbars: Mark vertical rules in margin of text
- bytefield: Create illustrations for network protocol specifications
- todonotes: Marking things to do in a LaTeX document
- xechangebar: An extension of package changebar that can be used with XeLaTeX