[OS X TeX] Re: Automator with latexdiff?

[Daniel Becker]

thanks for your help. I managed to install latex diff and also a test  
with a mini-example was successful. Thanks a lot for your script!

daniel

Am 12.09.2005 um 19:22 schrieb Jung-Tsung Shen:

> Here I find it for you ...
>
> ================
>
> 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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