macrostrackchanges
I am revising an article and have to put in colour the changes.
I do this manually (I created a macro) but it is tedious and imply another work when the article will be accepted (if it is^^).
\definecolor{green(munsell)}{rgb}{0.0, 0.66, 0.47}
\newcommand{\revONE}[1]{{\color{green(munsell)}#1}}
Is there a way to define a macro which will automatically colour the added text (using track changes) in the output file?
ps: I am totally new to latex…
You can process your TeX files with the Perl program latexdiff that is included with most LaTeX distributions.
From the manual:
Briefly, latexdiff is a utility program to aid in the management of revisions of latex documents. It compares two valid latex files, here called old.tex and new.tex, finds significant differences between them (i.e., ignoring the number of white spaces and position of line breaks), and adds special commands to highlight the differences.
I want to suggest the package changes. It's very powerful.
Example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[authormarkup=superscript,]{changes}
\definechangesauthor[name={TMOTTM},color=red]{TT}
\begin{document}
This is some filling text.
This is more filling text with a \replaced[id=TT, ]{bad}{nice} font
\end{document}
Result:
This is the draft version. The package offers the possibility to add also a list of changes. Instead of replacing you can also add material by \added.
If you want to print the final version you can simply add the option final to the package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[authormarkup=superscript,final]{changes}
\definechangesauthor[name={TMOTTM},color=red]{TT}
\begin{document}
This is some filling text.
This is more filling text with a \replaced[id=TT, ]{bad}{nice} font
\end{document}
Now the result is:
Best Answer
You could check out latexdiff, which can highlight changes between different revisions of the latex source file.
I used it to highlight changes in a manuscript as requested by the reviewers and it work quite well for that purpose. In my case it had some kinks with changes in tables (if I recall correctly), but nothing that couldn't be easily fixed (manually) with the help of the package's issue tracker.