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Re:The LaTeX Fetish (2016) by moomin on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:58AM (#15007790)
It would be interesting if someone could write a program that could diff two LaTeX documents and produce a change-tracked version showing insertions and deletions.

I think it's doable, but it's a serious project.

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Re:The LaTeX Fetish (2016) by rerx on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:07AM (#15007831)
It's done and it works very well (in my experience) for comparing two revisions of a document: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff
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Re:The LaTeX Fetish (2016) by geezerjay on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:19AM (#15016391)
Plain old diff does just that.

I'm assuming that what you're actually asking for is a pretty GUI that pretty-prints diff's output.

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Re:The LaTeX Fetish (2016) by torchous on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:19AM (#15007884)
latexdiff does exactly that: https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2013/02/16/using-latexdiff-f...
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