How can I add line numbers to text in a PDF?

[asimonis]

Reviewers often use line numbers to refer to edits and suggestions on a manuscript. I've found options to insert line numbers for code, but there's no mention of how to number lines of text.

I've found the Latex package 'lineno', but am not sure how to use it when working with Quarto through RStudio.

Thanks for any tips or suggestions!

[cscheid]

It's possible that quarto has an option to do so explicitly, but I couldn't find it either. As a minimal do-it-yourself solution, you can use this in your frontmatter to add LaTeX content to the header of your document:

format: 
  pdf:
    include-in-header: 
      text: '\usepackage{lineno}\linenumbers'

[asimonis]

Brilliant! That worked for me. Thanks Carlos!