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diff --git a/support/latexdiff/latexdiff-vc b/support/latexdiff/latexdiff-vc
index 21bf1f3adf..9843238c45 100755
--- a/support/latexdiff/latexdiff-vc
+++ b/support/latexdiff/latexdiff-vc
@@ -26,18 +26,17 @@
# Detailed usage information at the end of the file
#
# TODO/IDEAS: - option to call external pre-processing codes
-# - choose type of latex processor / bibtex (luatex, xelatex etc)
# version 1.3.0 ((7 October 2018)
# - option --only-changes with hyperref will suppress hyperrefs (pull request jprotze)_
# - option --only-changes now moves (rather than copies) file with only changes
# version 1.2.1 (22 June 2017):
-# - update: use qpdf (instead of pdftk) to select particular pages of output (pull request #102 submited by Tom Scogland via github). This was necessary because pdftk is being deprecated. pdftk is still used as a fall-back
+# - update: use qpdf (instead of pdftk) to select particular pages of output (pull request #102 submitted by Tom Scogland via github). This was necessary because pdftk is being deprecated. pdftk is still used as a fall-back
# - bug fix: --hg option was not recognised (partially fixes github issue #93 )
# - wrap passed-through options to latexdiff in quotation marks (fix github issue #58 )
# - program names for latexdiff, latex, dvips, bibtex configurable (fixes issue #40)
#
# version 1.2.0:
-# - depracation fix: left brace in RegEx now needs to be escaped
+# - deprecation fix: left brace in RegEx now needs to be escaped
#
# version 1.1.1:
# - better detection of RCS system
@@ -72,8 +71,8 @@ use strict ;
use warnings ;
my $versionstring=<<EOF ;
-This is LATEXDIFF-VC 1.3.0
- (c) 2005-2018 F J Tilmann
+This is LATEXDIFF-VC 1.3.1
+ (c) 2005-2020 F J Tilmann
EOF
# output debug and intermediate files, set to 0 in final distribution
@@ -674,7 +673,7 @@ specified, and they result in different behaviour:
=item B<latexdiff-vc> -r F<file.tex> ...
-compares F<file.tex> with the most recent version checked into RCS.
+compares F<file.tex> with the most recently checked-in version checked.
=item B<latexdiff-vc> -r F<rev1> F<file.tex> ...
@@ -685,7 +684,7 @@ compares F<file.tex> with revision F<rev1>.
compares revisions F<rev1> and F<rev2> of F<file.tex>.
Multiple files can be specified for all of the above options. All files must have the
-extension C<.tex>, though.
+extensions C<.tex>, C<.bbl>, or C<.flt>, though.
=item B<latexdiff-vc> F<old.tex> F<new.tex>
@@ -701,7 +700,7 @@ reported to stdout.
Rather than appending the string C<diff> and optionally the version
numbers given to the output-file, this will prepend a directory name C<diff>
to the
-original filename, creating the directory and subdirectories should they not exist already. This is particularly useful in order to clone a
+original filename, creating the directory and sub-directories should they not exist already. This is particularly useful in order to clone a
complete directory hierarchy. Optionally, a pathname F<path> can be specified, which is prepended instead of C<diff>.
=item B<--flatten,--flatten=keep-intermediate>
@@ -713,9 +712,6 @@ The generic usage of this function is : C<latexdiff-vc --flatten -r rev1 [-r rev
With C<--flatten=keep-intermediate>, the intermediate revision snapshots are kept in the current directory (Default is to store them in a temporary directory and delete them after generating the diff file.)
-=item B<--config var1=val1,var2=val2,...> or B<-c var1=val1,..>
-
-
=item B<--only-changes>
@@ -738,6 +734,7 @@ run latex command on diff file after generation of diff file.
run latex and dvixxx commands after generation of diff file.
=item B<-c configfile>
+=item B<--config var1=val1,var2=val2,...> or B<-c var1=val1,..>
Set configuration variables for latexdiff and latexdiff-vc. The option can be repeated to set different
variables (as an alternative to the comma-separated list).
@@ -755,7 +752,7 @@ Available variables for latexdiff-vc:
=back
-All other config variables are passed to latexdiff. Explicity set configuration changes always override implicit
+All other config variables are passed to latexdiff. Explicitly set configuration changes always override implicit
changes by the following shortcut options B<--fast>, B<--so>, B<--ps> and B<--pdf>.
=item B<--fast> or B<--so>
@@ -803,7 +800,7 @@ L<latexdiff>
=head1 PORTABILITY
I<latexdiff-vc> uses external commands and is therefore dependent on the system architecture; it has been
-tested mainly on Unix-like systems. It also requires the a version control
+tested mainly on Unix-like systems. It also requires a version control
system and latex to be installed on the system to make use of all features. Modules from Perl 5.8
or higher are required.