[OS X TeX] Re: Automator with latexdiff?

[Jung-Tsung Shen]

Here I find it for you ...

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REQUIREMENTS

Perl 5.6 or higher must be installed (5.8 if different encodings are used).
  The latexdiff script makes use of the Perl package Algorithm::Diff (available 
from www.cpan.org, current version 1.19). You can either install this
package, or
use the standalone version of latexdiff, latexdiff-so, which has
version 1.15 of
this package inlined and does not require external installation of
the package. Because latexdiff uses internal functions of Algorithm:Diff whose 
calling format or availability can change without notice, the
preferred method is
now to use the standalone version.

For those with very dated perl installations, the stand-alone obsolete 
version 0.1 of latexdiff is provided as latexdiff-0.1.  It is possible 
that in some very special cases latexdiff-0.2 yields better results 
than the current version, so in order to assure reproducability I provide
this version, too, as latexdiff-0.2.  However, these obsolete versions
should be
avoided if possible, and are no longer supported.

INSTALLATION UNIX/LINUX

The basic installation procedure is almost trivial:

1. Copy latexdiff and latexrevise into a directory which is in the
   search path and make them executable.  If the Algorithm::Diff
   package is not installed, use latexdiff-so instead of latexdiff.

2. Copy latexdiff.1 and latexrevise.1 into the correct man directory

The attached Makefile contains example commands to carry out above 
steps as root for a typical UNIX installation. Type 

  make install          (for the stand alone version)
or
  make install-ext      (for the version using the external Algorithm::Diff)

to get it rolling.  You can type

  make test
or
  make test-ext

to test both versions on a brief example before installation

On 9/12/05, Daniel Becker <daniel.becker at uni-rostock.de> wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> Am 12.09.2005 um 13:33 schrieb Jung-Tsung Shen:
> 
> > This script, when saved as compiled application with no Start up
> > screen, will be invoked by double clicks. You will be asked asks to
> > choose the source file, the modified file (i.e., 2 files), and the
> > folder in which you want the comparison result to be saved. The
> > default name is diff.tex. It then is passed to TeXShop and opens by
> > TeXShop.
> >
> > Prerequisite: You need to have latexdiff installed.
> 
> sorry for asking such a question, but what do I need to do to install
> latexdiff? I downloaded from ctan a folder "latexdiff" with many
> things inside but simply copying that one into /usr/local/bin/ didn't
> work.
> 
> Thanks for that script, it might help me a lot!
> 
> daniel
> 
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