[texhax] colouring the text

[Steve Schwartz]

Paul,

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 11:52 +0100, Paul Stanley wrote:
> Gentlemen, ladies
> I'm sorry if this has been covered countless times already.  how 
> would one colour selected parts of the text? I'm looking for a macro 
> to colour segments of text that have been recently added or modified. 
> While we're added, i would be grateful for suggestions of suitable 
> colours for the purpose.

latexdiff is a Perl script that does this and more by comparing old.tex
and new.tex using diff. Available via the standard sources, e.g.

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/

but often available directly from your tex installation.

HTH
Steve

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