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From: John Devereux <jdREMOVE@THISdevereux.me.uk>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Highlight changes
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:51:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ibior07.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080715195514.GA20338@gaston.couberia.bzh> ("Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster=22's?= message of "Tue\, 15 Jul 2008 21\:55\:14 +0200")

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 15 2008, John Devereux wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a way to automatically "highlight changes" to a document,
>> such that the resulting PDF has markers showing changed areas? Bars in
>> the margin or some such. Or more generally some other way to easily
>> communicate what has been changed (other than a diff on the source).
>
> I'm sorry, this _is_ a diff on the source:
>
> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060806.143457.47021821.en.html
>
> But the result can be quite nice.

Thanks, but this (your shell script) did not work well for me - there
seem to be too many cases where the diff produces invalid tex
code. Did you ever make an extended one?

> I've also a module, that makes a table to communicate some changes to the
> reader. It's attached. Typeset it with "texexec --mode=demo t-changes".

OK, thanks!


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John Devereux
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-18 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-15 18:52 John Devereux
2008-07-15 19:55 ` Peter Münster
2008-07-18 20:51   ` John Devereux [this message]
2008-07-19 15:52     ` Peter Münster
2008-07-19 17:54       ` John Devereux
2008-07-19 18:40         ` Peter Münster
2008-07-20  8:30           ` John Devereux
2008-07-16  9:25 ` Olivier Guéry
2008-07-16 10:49   ` overfull hbox (was: Re: Highlight changes) Peter Münster
2008-07-16 13:11     ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-07-16 13:15       ` Olivier Guéry

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