<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear TUG members,<br><br></div>I am editor working on an academic book written in LaTeX. I am writing with a question about latexdiff, a Perl script that allows multiple TeX users to track changes they have made to one TeX file (<a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff" target="_blank">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff</a>)<br>
<br></div>Here's the problem that I'm encountering. I am working on a complex .tex file (Draft1.tex) that pulls
the parts a book (e.g., table of contents, chapters, bibliography) together and
integrates them into a .pdf of the entire book when I compile it in MikTeK 2.9. These parts (e.g., chap1.tex, chap2.tex, and so on) are .tex files that are external to Draft1.tex and they cannot be compiled individually. <br>
<br>When I use latexdiff to generate a comparison between Draft1.tex (author's original) and Draft2.tex (draft with my
changes), the resulting .pdf does not show or track any changes to the text in the external file: it only shows the author's full original 307-page document. Since the bulk of the author's work is in these external files, I will need to find a way to show changes in them. <br>
<br></div>Is it possible that latexdiff cannot work on complex master files? Can anyone here offer some insight? <br><br></div>Thank you.<br><br></div>Kathryn<br><br></div></div>