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Re: [Sheflug] Latex Question
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:03:26PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 Oct 2001 3:14 pm, you wrote:
>
> > As the 3rd line has been modified, we get a little line, * or
> > whatever next to it indicating it has changed.
>
> You can't diff a DVI, they're binary, so you would have to diff the source.
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. What I meant was that I'd
like to see the changes in the DVI. One thing I can do is of course, to
diff the two latex files, and that shall flag all the changes.
> Maybe you need a bit of perl that:
yes, that's exactly what I want. The problem is that while
that'd be a way to go, erm... Well, let's just say that the punishment
of putting that together doesn't fit the crime :-))) I was just
wondering whether someone had already done that...
> This means you would need to keep a copy of your old source file around, but
> I don't see a way round this. You could use RCS on your source file?
> Or is that too much?
Well, things like emacs or lyx have version control, so that's
not too much of an issue.
Cheers,
José
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University of Sheffield UK
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