When editing documents it is convenient to have all the lines on a page numbered (on the left margin) so that the reviewer can refer to them in his report. How can I achieve this with LaTeX?
[Tex/LaTex] Number every line of pages
line-numbering
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Alright, here's a go at numbering lines in a PDF (or any other image format) without access to the source.
I wrote a little shell script that, using ImageMagick (at least version 6.6.9-4), converts a given PDF into separate raster images for each page, splits these into half pages, shrinks them to a width of one pixel (so takes the horizontal average, basically), turns this into a monochrome image with a given threshold (black=text, white=no text), shrinks every black sequence down to one pixel (=middle of a line), outputs this as a text, pipes it to sed to clean it up and remove all the non-text lines and finally writes a txt file with the position of each line as 1/1000 of the text height.
findlines.sh:
convert $1.pdf -crop 50x100% png:$1
for f in $1-*; do
convert $f -flatten -resize 1X1000! -black-threshold 99% -white-threshold 10% -negate -morphology Erode Diamond -morphology Thinning:-1 Skeleton -black-threshold 50% txt:-| sed -e '1d' -e '/#000000/d' -e 's/^[^,]*,//' -e 's/[(]//g' -e 's/:.*//' -e 's/,/ /g' > $f.txt;
done
Running the script takes about 1 second for one page, resulting in a number of files: basename-<number>.txt, where odd <numbers> contain the positions of the left line numbers, and even <numbers> those of the right page numbers. These files can then be read by pgfplotstable (at least v 1.4) and be used to typeset the line numbers on top of the imported pdf file. I defined a command that takes the page number and four line numbers as arguments, where the four line numbers are used to tell the macro at which "raw" line numbers the "real" text lines start and end in the left and right column. By setting \pgfkeys{print raw line numbers=true}, the raw line numbers as found by the algorithm are shown in red.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\newif\ifprintrawlinenumbers
\pgfkeys{print raw line numbers/.is if=printrawlinenumbers,
print raw line numbers=true}
\newcommand{\addlinenumbers}[5]{
\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\leftnumber}{(#1-1)*2}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\rightnumber}{(#1-1)*2+1}
\pgfplotstableread{\pdfname-\leftnumber.txt}\leftlines
\pgfplotstableread{\pdfname-\rightnumber.txt}\rightlines
\begin{tikzpicture}[font=\tiny,anchor=east]
\node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0] (image) at (0,0) {\includegraphics[width=14cm,page=#1]{\pdfname.pdf}};
\begin{scope}[x={(image.south east)},y={(image.north west)}]
\pgfplotstableforeachcolumnelement{[index] 0}\of\leftlines\as\position{
\ifprintrawlinenumbers
\node [font=\tiny,red] at (0.04,1-\position/1000) {\pgfplotstablerow};
\fi
\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\checkexcluded}{
(\pgfplotstablerow>=#2 && \pgfplotstablerow<=#3) ? 1 : 0)
}
\ifnum\checkexcluded=1
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\linenumber{\pgfplotstablerow-#2+1}
\node [font=\tiny,align=right,anchor=east] at (0.08,1-\position/1000) {\linenumber};
\fi
}
\pgfplotstablegetrowsof{\leftlines}
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\rightstart{min((\pgfplotsretval-#2),(#3-#2+1))}
\pgfplotstableforeachcolumnelement{[index] 0}\of\rightlines\as\position{
\ifprintrawlinenumbers
\node [font=\tiny,red,anchor=east] at (1.0,1-\position/1000) {\pgfplotstablerow};
\fi
\pgfmathtruncatemacro{\checkexcluded}{
(\pgfplotstablerow>=#4 && \pgfplotstablerow<=#5) ? 1 : 0)
}
\ifnum\checkexcluded=1
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\linenumber{\pgfplotstablerow-#4+\rightstart+1}
\node [font=\tiny] at (0.96,1-\position/1000) {\linenumber};
\fi
}
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\begin{document}
\def\pdfname{article}
\addlinenumbers{1}{20}{50}{2}{65}
\pgfkeys{print raw line numbers=false}
\addlinenumbers{2}{0}{69}{0}{64}
\addlinenumbers{3}{19}{47}{21}{48}
\end{document}
As a proof of concept, here's the output for the first two pages of an article from the Environmental Science & Technology Journal. I think it works really well. I haven't been able to call findlines.sh from within LaTeX, though, this step has to be performed manually before compiling the .tex file.
Your MWE can be greatly reduced to be
\documentclass{revtex4}
\usepackage{lineno}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\pagewiselinenumbers
\begin{document}
\Blindtext
\end{document}
With such a simple MWE it becomes clear that the problem is an interaction between revtex4 and lineno. Searching the lineno documentation yields:
- if a class changes
\output(APS journal class revtex4, e.g.), lineno.sty should be loaded by\RequirePackage[here presumably following some options in brackets]{lineno}preceding\documentclass.
Leading to a working MWE of
\RequirePackage{lineno}
\documentclass{revtex4}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\pagewiselinenumbers
\begin{document}
\Blindtext
\end{document}
Best Answer
As Martin Scharrer has pointed out -- and to answer the general question once and for all --: Use the
linenopackage. (The package allows to number every line, as shown in its documentation.) See this entry of the UK TeX FAQ for possible pitfalls and alternatives.The following addition to the tex file will cause line numbers to appear (at least in scrbook class using xelatex)