[OS X TeX] Word spacing / Comparing pdfs in Acrobat

[Peter Pagin]

I don't know Perl either. Luckily, this is not needed for installing or 
using latexdiff.

By the way, I thanks for the textbook on Universal Algebra, from which I 
learned what I know in that area.

Best,
Peter

George Gratzer wrote:
> I tried changebar, and soon I could not typeset the document. I would 
> try latexdiff, but I do not know Perl.
>
> When I send out a new version of a chapter to the volunteers, it would 
> be nice to mark it up; concentrate on these.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> GG
>
> On May 4, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Peter Pagin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> the changebar package generates marginal bars to mark changed 
>> passages, with manually set code. The latexdiff script is excellent 
>> for comparing two LaTeX-documents and generating a composite document 
>> marking the difference, down to word level at least.
>>
>> Best,
>> Peter
>>
>> Markus Hänchen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to make visible, changes made to a LaTeX file. I tried to use 
>>> the 'Compare Documents' feature in Acrobat on the final pdf file 
>>> since it makes nice coloured mark-ups.
>>>
>>> The problem is that with the variable word spacing LaTeX is 
>>> producing, Acrobat sometimes does not recognize the separating space 
>>> between two words and reads two words as one. When the text is 
>>> reflown a different set of words might be 'joined' and Acrobat sees 
>>> changes where there are actually none.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make the word spacing more uniform or bigger in 
>>> general?
>>>
>>> One work-around I have found is to increase the font size to 11 pt, 
>>> which seems to make the space between words big enough for Acrobat 
>>> to always catch it. But if I could have it working at 10 pt, I would 
>>> rather prefer that.
>>>
>>> Do get the whole thing working I had to add a number of pagebreaks 
>>> to separate the whole text into chunks which will even after 
>>> extensive edits still fit on one page, otherwise Acrobat would also 
>>> all changes due to text flowing from one page to another.
>>>
>>>
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