[OS X TeX] Droplatexdiff available.

Peter Pagin peter.pagin at philosophy.su.se
Sat May 6 11:07:03 EDT 2006


Sorry,
same result, except for the flash of the temporary file.

I am able to run latexdiff-fast from the terminal, though.

Best,
Peter

Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
> On May 6, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Peter Pagin wrote:
>
>> Hi Herb,
>> thanks for this tool and other things, like TeXShop engines, that you 
>> have contributed before. I have tried the Droplatexdiff.app, and each 
>> time a file with the predicted name is created, but each time the 
>> file is empty.
>>
>> Best,
>> Peter
>
> Howdy,
>
> Sigh... I didn't realize that latexdiff-fast writes a temporary file. 
> Since I owned that directory on my system it was happy to let that 
> happen. When I tested the application with a non-admin login I got the 
> same results as you did. I've just put up (yet another new) version 
> that creates the temp file in the same directory as the two files to 
> compare so you'll see a file that is transient flash by as the 
> processing goes on; I'll probably change that to a tmp directory at 
> some point but it works fine. I'm very glad I added the log file; 
> that's how I easily discovered the problem.
>
> Again... download Droplatexdiff.app.zip from 
> <http://homepage.mac.com/herbs2/>. Luckily it's not a big download.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
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