General ⇒ Tracking changes with LaTeX

[avp3000]

Hi,

A friend of mine has asked me to take a look at his PhD thesis and correct any possible spelling or other type of mistakes. Now the problem we are trying solve is how to indicate my changes in his work. If that was Microsoft Word, than I would have simply turned on the "track changes" function and then any changes would have been indicated automatically. However, I don't know how to do the same or something similar in LaTeX resp. WinEdit. Of course, I could just open the pdf file and edit it in Adobe Acrobat but than he would need to do the changes manually in the code, so this is also not optimal.

I would really appreciate your advices. Thank you.

[localghost]

You could try the changes or the comment package.


Best regards
Thorsten

[Sebi]

The above solution requires additional work.
Try latexdiff instead. It only needs two versions and highlights the changes just as word does.
Usage:
latexdiff old.tex new.tex > diff.tex

Get it here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/

However, it doesn't work with vista (the perl interpreter gives strange error messages).

[avp3000]

To both of you: thanks for the suggestions.

To Sebi: this sounds very promising, I haven't tried it yet, but probably I'll get it this weekend and than tell if it had worked