{"id":7758,"date":"2022-02-03T12:09:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:22:50","slug":"tracking-changes-in-latex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/tracking-changes-in-latex\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Changes in LaTeX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tracking changes in Microsoft Word is easy – we just click the ‘Track Changes’ button. It requires a little more work in LaTeX but here is a quick guide to doing it as painlessly as possible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we want our original document to be stored in a *.tex file in an Overleaf project (as shown below) <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Then, we make our changes to the original text in a separate *.tex file, saved in the same project (in this example called amended.tex)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To obtain where these two files differ, we can use this online latexdiff tool<\/a>. Simply paste the entire original *.tex file in the left field and the amended *.tex file in the right field and hit go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The output will be some LaTeX code – simply create a new *.tex file, copy the output into it and compile and we’re done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Easy peasy lemon squeezy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tracking changes in Microsoft Word is easy – we just click the ‘Track Changes’ button. It requires a little more work in LaTeX but here is a quick guide to doing it as painlessly as possible! First, we want our original document to be stored in a *.tex file in an Overleaf project (as shown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,296,14,463],"tags":[465,464],"ppma_author":[545],"class_list":["post-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-hints-and-tips","category-howto","category-latex","tag-overleaf","tag-version-control"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":545,"user_id":65,"is_guest":0,"slug":"tom","display_name":"Thomas Hadfield","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c77f10ae0d9e0e114df272f52ae30c232859886b12e9c0fcf3987102ee11d81c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}