“Track Changes” for LaTeX
I use LaTeX a lot. As in, for almost everything where I have to produce a written document, whether it be writing an essay or paper, taking notes, or doing my problem sets. I try to minimize the amount of time I touch Microsoft Word, because it hurts whenever I do. Getting things done in Word is almost painful, as the interface is awkward and slow (especially since I have to run Word in Rosetta, which is essentially emulation). I also really like LaTeX because the documents it produces are very, very beautiful and much easier to read.
The one time I pick up Microsoft Word, however, is when I have to edit and collaborate on documents, because there’s really nothing better than the “Track Changes” feature that Microsoft has. Adobe’s collaborative editing features for PDFs are really shamefully bad, and I don’t know anyone who uses them.
That may change now, though. via GeomBlog, I found latexdiff, a program that’ll output a diff file that will mark changes. It apparently also supports basic accept and reject changes, as well, through the editing of the diff file. The example given seems to be absolutely perfect!
