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Aragorn

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Sep 8, 2003, 4:26:32 PM9/8/03
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Hi,

I am writing a thesis in LaTeX and I want to view changes between
versions of the thesis. Is there any method that would highlight the
changes in the final pdf?.

CVS/RCS would probably do it in the source.

Aragorn

Scott Pakin

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Sep 8, 2003, 6:52:42 PM9/8/03
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Aragorn wrote:
> I am writing a thesis in LaTeX and I want to view changes between
> versions of the thesis. Is there any method that would highlight the
> changes in the final pdf?.

FAQ. See http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=changebars

-- Scott

Dekel Tsur

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Sep 10, 2003, 5:35:54 AM9/10/03
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Scott Pakin <pa...@uiuc.edu> wrote in message news:<3F5D083A...@uiuc.edu>...

In my experience, changebar doesn't work very well.
An option that is not mentioned in the FAQ is dvipost, which post process
the DVI file.
I wrote a small script for generating the necessary markup for dvipost
from two latex files:
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/

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