LaTeX Diff

This is a ruby script that compares two LaTeX documents to produce an annotated LaTeX file showing additions and deletions with styled text and changebars.

Features

• Word-level diffing
• Fast (typically just a few seconds)
• Understands LaTeX elements to mostly maintain correct syntax
• Customisable markup for added/deleted elements
• Ties in with bundled PostScript changebar package

Example

Requirements

• Ruby 1.8
• GNU diff with GTYPE-group-format support (known working with 2.8.1)
• LaTeX
• dvips
• ps2pdf

Note that pdflatex is not directly supported since the creation of changebars
using the supplied ‘pschangebar’ LaTeX package requires a PostScript
interpreter.

Obtaining

rblatexdiff-0.0.2.tgz

Acknowledgements

Heavily inspired by latexdiff.