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

[George Gratzer]

On May 4, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Peter Pagin wrote:

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

How come? The manual says: latexdiff is a Perl script.

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

How nice of you to write this.

By the way, the second edition is going to be available again, thanks  
to on demand printing.

GG


>
> 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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