Commenting out a few words within a paragraph?

Question

Is there anyway by which I can comment out a word within a sentence?

James · Accepted Answer

This is probably the easiest way.

documentclass{article}
begin{document}

I like bacon, sausage,
% pork chops,
and ham.

% Note to self... try pork chops

end{document}

alfC · Answer

You can do this:

newcommand{cmmnt}[1]{}
...
begin{document}

Hello cmmnt{commented text} bye.

end{document}

A comment suggests eliminating undesired spaces around the comment:

newcommand{cmmnt}[1]{ignorespaces}
...

(This should be part of some "comment" package, if it is not already.)

abrac · Answer

I like the other solutions, but sometimes I wish that my comments would also appear in the output file. I tend to forget important comments that are buried in my source code.
I include
usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}

in the preamble and can then add in-line comments with
todo{This is a comment that will appear in the margin}

The result is beautiful "sticky note" comments which appear in the margins of my pdf. I can them remove them when I'm done with my draft.
See https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/178806/212801
Source

ceving · Answer

You can put a phantom in a vbox without any height.
vbox to0pt{phantom{Some wise words.}}

The problem with this is, that the comment gets parsed and typeset and therefor must be valid TeX code.

Commenting out a few words within a paragraph?

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