My supervisor is sort of a word person, and I have managed to stick to LaTeX, learning a lot in the meantime on how to satisfy word-endured typesetting desires, still getting all the advantages of LaTeX.
The last challenge I undertook was a track-changes file, showing additions and deletions a la word. I tried several solutions including plain text diff, psdiff and other packages. There's a lot online on this LaTeX shortcoming. I decided to go for texdiff. It is program that takes the old and new latex files and generates a third file which you compile getting the desired changes in pdf. It is sometimes a bit sloppy with weird table structures, but overall it is a good solution. It is also very simple, and guess what...it is pure scripting. This reminded me of my last boss in the software industry...everything (sort of) can be solved with vi and the basic command-line unix toolset....Wise words.
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I didn't know the existence of that tool for latex,anyway, I put my documents in a SVN server, so I can keep track of the history of my documents.It solved the problem for me.
Schizoid
February 21, 2007 at 4:17 AMThis is actually quite compatible with SVN solutions. The provided program can also automatically get a tagged version from a repository and generate the diff tex. There are two ways to invoke the programm, passing 3 file names, or passing a the right info to retrieve the files from a repository.
Julián García
February 21, 2007 at 2:20 PM