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<p/>One often needs clear indications of how a document has changed, but
the commonest technique, &ldquo;change bars&rdquo; (also known as &ldquo;revision
bars&rdquo;), requires surprisingly much
-trickery of the programmer (the problem being that TeX &lsquo;proper&rsquo;
+trickery of the programmer. The problem is that TeX &lsquo;proper&rsquo;
doesn&rsquo;t provide the programmer with any information about the
&ldquo;current position&rdquo; from which a putative start- or end-point of a
-bar might be calculated; PDFTeX <em>does</em> provide the
-information, but we&rsquo;re not aware yet of any programmer taking
-advantage of the fact to write a PDFTeX-based changebar package).
+bar might be calculated. PDFTeX <em>does</em> provide that
+information, but no PDFTeX-based changebar package has been
+published, that takes advantage of that.
<p/>The simplest package that offers change bars is Peter Schmitt&rsquo;s
<i>backgrnd.tex</i>; this was written as a Plain TeX application
that patches the output routine, but it appears to work at least on
@@ -21,17 +21,17 @@ routine is not something to undertake lightly&hellip;).
<p/>The longest-established LaTeX-specific solution is the
<i>changebar</i> package,
which uses <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands supplied by the driver you&rsquo;re using.
-You need therefore to tell the package which driver to generate
-<code>\</code><code>special</code>s for (in the same way that you need to tell the
-<i>graphics</i> package); the list of available drivers is pretty
+You need therefore to tell the package which driver to you&rsquo;re using
+(in the same way that you need to tell the <i>graphics</i>
+package); the list of available drivers is pretty
wide, but does not include <i>dvipdfm</i>. The package comes with
a shell script <i>chbar.sh</i> (for use on Unix machines) that
will compare two documents and generate a third which is marked-up
-with <i>changebar</i> macros to highlight changes. The
-shareware <i>WinEDT</i> editor has a macro that will generate
+with <i>changebar</i> macros to highlight changes.
+<p/>The shareware <i>WinEDT</i> editor has a macro that will generate
<i>changebar</i> (or other) macros to show differences from an
-earlier version of your file, stored in an
-<i>RCS</i>-controlled repository &mdash; see
+earlier version of your file, stored in an <i>RCS</i>-controlled
+repository &mdash; see
<a href="http://www.winedt.org/Macros/LaTeX/RCSdiff.php">http://www.winedt.org/Macros/LaTeX/RCSdiff.php</a>
<p/>The <i>vertbars</i> package uses the techniques of the
<i>lineno</i> package (which it loads, so the <i>lineno</i>
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ documents, and it produces a new LaTeX document in which the
changes are very visible. An example of the output is embedded in the
documentation,
- <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/latexdiff-man.pdf">latexdiff-man.pdf</a>
+ <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/support/latexdiff/latexdiff-man.pdf">latexdiff-man.pdf</a>
(part of the distribution).
A rudimentary revision facility is provided by another
<i>Perl</i> script, <i>latexrevise</i>, which accepts or rejects
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ accept or reject selected changes only.
<dt><tt><i>lineno.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lineno.zip">macros/latex/contrib/lineno</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lineno/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>vertbars.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/vertbars.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/vertbars.sty</a>
+<dt><tt><i>winedt</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/">systems/win32/winedt/</a>
</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=changebars">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=changebars</a>
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