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21did21 · Post by **21did21** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:38 am

Hello all,

I am novice with LaTeX and one of my friend want to me that i install "latexdiff" to work with him. I don't know "latexdiff" and i don't understand very well what i can make with it.

Can you explain to me some comment about this?

PS: "latexdiff" exists on Windows or only on Linux? (It seems that is just on Linux.)

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Post by **localghost** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:42 am

It is a Perl script. More can be found out by reading the latexdiff manual. After installation by the package manager of your TeX distribution you have also instant access via command line.

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texdoc latexdiff

Strawberry Perl is a free Perl interpreter for Wind0ws.

Thorsten

21did21 · Post by **21did21** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:23 pm

thanks for your help !

i was on this website :
http://www.peteryu.ca/tutorials/publishing/latexdiff

and i have installed "strawberry Perl" and "Miktex" for windows. These two tool are installed now on my computer.

Now, if i open a "command windows" and i put in DOS :

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latexdiff-so a.tex b.tex > differences.tex

(with "a.tex" my old latex document and "b.tex" the new)

it should be works ? (i have a file "differences.tex" that is created but i haven't not a correct result: the file is empty)

ps: i have already strawberry perl

21did21 · Post by **21did21** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:15 am

now all is OK thanks !

it was a problem in the path and in one extension

cheers

xCx · Post by **xCx** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:39 pm

I'm having the same problem: "the file [differences.tex created] is empty".

21did21 said that "it was a problem in the path and in one extension". Which path and which extension? How to solve this?

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:45 pm

Hi xCx,

welcome to the forum!

Perhaps provide complete information about your specific case. Such as files you compared by latexdiff. You can add attachments to forum posts for showing the files.

Stefan

xCx · Post by **xCx** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 8:27 pm

Hi Stefan, thank you for replying.

I have just downloaded the StrawberryPerl that is on c:/perl and downloaded latexdiff (as explained in sharelatex[*]) that now have been copied to c:/perl/bin/latexdiff).

The two documents old.tex and new.tex compile very well separately.

latexdiff old.tex new.tex > diff.tex

creates an empty diff.tex in the folder c:/users/me/documents

Any idea why?

[*] https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2013/02 ... ments.html

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:02 am

No idea yet. Do you get any error message? Are the files actually different? Can the files be found by the command latexdiff? How does it look like, when you execute it?

Stefan

xCx · Post by **xCx** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:29 pm

Oh, I found what the problem was!

21did21 was right when they said there was a problem with the path: I never used the command line before so I figured out I had to go into the folder the two .tex were.

Using the "cd NameFolder" to get to where they are and from there running "latexdiff old.tex new.tex > diff.tex" all was well.

Sorry for the noob question.

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:00 pm

No problem. Thanks for confirming the solution and for clarifying the explanation! It may help further readers who come in via google.

Stefan

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