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

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Thu May 4 13:16:22 EDT 2006


On May 4, 2006, at 11:56 AM, George Gratzer wrote:

>
> 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.
> ...

Howdy,

The top of the script tells the OS that it uses Perl which is  
included in OS X. The OS then just executes the script (I believe the  
execute permission is already set --- it was in the download I did)  
under Perl so it just works. Isn't OS X wonderful!?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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