A Package and template for writing beautiful and nicely structured point-by-point responses.
An example document using the package is provided as main.tex and in the Overleaf Gallery. This should be a great starting point for your point-by-point response!
Load the package using \usepackage{pbyp} with pbyp.sty in the same directory as your main.tex.
The package accepts the optional keyword arguments revAEcol, revAcol, revBcol, ..., revFcol to define different colors for the reviewers. The colors must be one of the standard colors or dvipsnames of xcolor. For an overview of available colors see here. E.g., to color the associate editor in red and the first reviewer in green use
\usepackage[revAEcol=Brickred,revAcol=ForestGreen]{pbyp}
We use theorem environments to create the question and response blocks. E.g., to answer the first question of the first reviewer we could do the following
\begin{question}{\QuestionRevA{Q1}}
some question
\end{question}
\begin{response}
some response
\end{response}
where \QuestionRevA indicates the first reviewer (we could use \QuestionRevAE for the AE or \QuestionRevB, \QuestionRevC,... for the other reviewers). The question name is provided as argument to the question command. E.g., to give the questions more meaningful names such as R1.Dataset or R2.General, we could use
\begin{question}{\QuestionRevA{Dataset}}
some question about the dataset
\end{question}
\begin{question}{\QuestionRevB{General}}
some general comment
\end{question}
We can also label questions to reference them later in one of our responses.
\begin{question}{\QuestionRevA{Dataset}}\label{R1:Dataset}
some question
\end{question}
\begin{response}
some response
\end{response}
\begin{question}{\QuestionRevB{Q1}}\label{R2:Q1}
some question
\end{question}
\begin{response}
some response
\end{response}
\begin{question}{\QuestionRevC{Q1}}
some question
\end{question}
\begin{response}
See our response to \cref{R1:Dataset,R2:Q1}
\end{response}
Sometimes you want to copy some text from your revised manuscript to the point-by-point response to save the busy reviewers some time. This can be done using the revised environment:
\begin{question}{\QuestionRevA{Q1}}
Please add this in your manuscript
\end{question}
\begin{response}
We updated this in our manuscript:
\begin{revised}
We greatly improved our manuscript by incorporating everything that the reviewer suggested!
\end{revised}
\end{response}
You can reference reviewers or the associate editor to write things like:
To reference the AE use the command \revAE. To reference the individual reviewers use \revA, \revB,...,\revF or \rev{1}, \rev{2}, ... \rev{6} (we don't support more than 6 reviewers + AE)
You can insert placeholders for line numbers to be added later using \addlines