NAME¶
latexdiff-vc - wrapper script that calls latexdiff for different versions of a
file under version management (CVS, RCS or SVN)
SYNOPSIS¶
latexdiff-vc [
latexdiff-options ] [
latexdiff-vc-options ]
-r [
rev1] [
-r rev2]
file1.tex [
file2.tex ...]
or
latexdiff-vc [
latexdiff-options ] [
latexdiff-vc-options
][
--postscript |
--pdf ]
old.tex new.tex
DESCRIPTION¶
latexdiff-vc is a wrapper script that applies
latexdiff to a file,
or multiple files under version control (CVS, RCS or SVN), and optionally runs
the sequence of "latex" and "dvips" or
"pdflatex" commands necessary to produce pdf or postscript output of
the difference tex file(s). It can also be applied to a pair of files to
automatise the generation of difference file in postscript or pdf format.
OPTIONS¶
- --rcs, --svn, --cvs, or --git
- Set the version system. If no version system is specified, latexdiff-vc
will venture a guess.
latexdiff-cvs and latexdiff-rcs are variants of latexdiff-vc which default
to the respective versioning system. However, this default can still be
overridden using the options above.
- -r, -r rev or --revision,
--revision=rev
- Choose revision (under RCS, CVS, SVN or GIT). One or two -r options
can be specified, and they result in different behaviour:
- latexdiff-vc -r file.tex ...
- compares file.tex with the most recent version checked into
RCS.
- latexdiff-vc -r rev1 file.tex ...
- compares file.tex with revision rev1.
- latexdiff-vc -r rev1 -r rev2 file.tex ...
- compares revisions rev1 and rev2 of file.tex.
Multiple files can be specified for all of the above options. All files must
have the extension ".tex", though.
- latexdiff-vc old.tex new.tex
- compares two files.
The name of the difference file is generated automatically and reported to
stdout.
- -d or --dir -d path or
--dir=path
- Rather than appending the string "diff" and optionally the
version numbers given to the output-file, this will prepend a directory
name "diff" to the original filename, creating the directory and
subdirectories should they not exist already. This is particularly useful
in order to clone a complete directory hierarchy. Optionally, a pathname
path can be specified, which is prepended instead of
"diff".
- --fast or --so
- Use "latexdiff-fast" or "latexdiff-so", respectively
(instead of "latexdiff").
- --ps or --postscript
- Generate postscript output from difference file. This will run the
sequence "latex; latex; dvips" on the difference file (do not
use this option in the rare cases, where three "latex" commands
are required if you care about correct referencing). If the difference
file contains a "\bibliography" tag, run the sequence
"latex; bibtex; latex; latex; dvips".
- --pdf
- Generate pdf output from difference file using "pdflatex". This
will run the sequence "pdflatex; pdflatex" on the difference
file, or "pdflatex; bibtex; pdflatex; pdflatex" for files
requiring bibtex.
- --force
- Overwrite existing diff files without asking for confirmation. Default
behaviour is to ask for confirmation before overwriting an existing
difference file.
- --help or -h
- Show help text
- --version
- Show version number
All other options are passed on to "latexdiff".
SEE ALSO¶
latexdiff
PORTABILITY¶
latexdiff-vc uses external commands and is therefore limited to Unix-like
systems. It also requires the RCS version control system and latex to be
installed on the system. Modules from Perl 5.8 or higher are required.
BUG REPORTING¶
Please submit bug reports using the issue tracker of the github repository page
https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff.git, or send them to
tilmann@gfz-potsdam.de. Include the serial number of
latexdiff-vc (option "--version") . =head1 AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2005,2012 Frederik Tilmann
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3 Contributors: S Utcke, H
Bruyninckx