-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/12 12:45, Gregory Jefferis wrote: > > On 6 Dec 2012, at 08:05, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> I agree with this comment - I wanted to use the comparison tool for >> comparing two revisions, and >> the result was simply unusable. > > Has anyone tried using latexdiff for change comparison in not merging? > Presumably a small script to export both versions to latex, invoke latexdiff > and then generate the marked-up PDF (which is what you get with latexdiff) > would work. For latexdiff there are already scripts to handle git revisions > which should allow one to diff a pair of arbitrary revisions in a git > repository.
This should work, but it would be really nice if these changes were on LyX level and that one could save a file LyX file containing the differences as tracked changes. To see what has changed in the text, the latexdiff approach surely would work. Rainer > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1325/using-latexdiff-with-git > http://eothred.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/latexdiff-and-git/ > >> But a compare tool from commandline would be exceedingly useful for VCS. > > +1. > > Greg. > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDB2uIACgkQoYgNqgF2egq9LwCfa/TeLxPRGKYbFYo6pKGcN3FD vA0AoIrbSvb9cIlhYNFraEMZ9nxqZjKC =vzhT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
