LaTeX diff

Purpose

To annotate changes in a latex file; to produce nice, colored annotations like this one:

Program 1 (20020718)

Written by William Scott Hoge <shoge at ECE dot NEU another dot EDU>.
License: GPL

Written in Perl, please read comments inside.

Download: texdiff.pl

Program 2 -- (20020401)

Scope

Usage

• Download latest wdiff from here (or use my copy: wdiff sources, then patch it with:
  patch -d wdiff-0.5g -p1 < patch-wdiff)
• Compile:
  cd wdiff-0.5g ; ./configure && make && make install
• Copy the script texdiff to /usr/local/bin/
• To create sample-diff.tex from sample-old.tex and sample.tex, run:
  texdiff sample.tex sample-old.tex sample-diff.tex
• The file texdiff.tex is now included into the sample-diff.tex
• Create PDF document (the Makefile is included):
  make sample-diff.pdf
  (when needed clean the source TeX manually; it is often needed when changes are made within a table, section header or an itemize list; in general - change open/close tags shall be within one item, table cell, etc.)
• Note: texdiff can directly use CVS, run it without arguments for help.

Download files

• texdiff - main script, generates diff annotated file
• texdiff.tex - some definitions to be included into diff annotated file
• wdiff-0.5g.tar.gz - wdiff sources; wdiff is a great tool written by Francois Pinard
• patch-wdiff - patch to make wdiff compile on RH7.2 Linux

Sample files

• sample-old.tex - sample LaTeX file
• sample.tex - modified sample file
• sample-diff.tex - diff annotated LaTeX
• Makefile - makefile to produce PDF
• sample-diff.pdf - diff annotated PDF