quickdiff

Prerequisite

If you are using Ubuntu, run sudo apt install texlive texlive-science perl latexdiff

Usage

Quick start

Download the original and the revised source .zip files from Overleaf. Rename them to origin.zip and revision.zip.

Copy those .zip files into this quickdiff folder.

Run the scripts. HF!

yijian.sh is for generating the diff folder via two zip files (origin.zip, revision.zip).

cleanup.sh is to clean generated files.

Details

Makefile.template is the template, to generate the Makefile. Modify it to compile your own tex!

providecommand.tex consists of commands that need to be inserted into the main.tex. Those commands are used by latexdiff.

Things done by yijian.sh

Processing origin.zip;

Processing revision.zip;

Generating diff;

Processing diff;

Generating final pdf files.

Prepare your tex

Structure

main.tex

tex/*.tex

figures/*.pdf

bibliography/final.bib

*.cls

Don'ts

No \looseness=-1 !!!

\ignore{} can be used, but not too many.