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Compare two versions of an arXiv preprint with latexdiff.

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comparxiv

A wrapper of latexdiff to compare two version of an arXiv preprint with a single command.

Disclaimer: This is a beta version. Despite extensive testing, it does not work for all preprints on arXiv. Especially older preprints can cause problems.

INSTALLATION

You can install comparxiv via

pip install comparxiv

or direct from source. Just run

git clone https://github.com/temken/comparxiv.git
cd comparxiv 
python setup.py install

USAGE

To compare v1 and v2 of a paper with comparxiv, run e.g.

comparxiv 1905.06348 1 2

or simply

comparxiv hep-ph/0612370

(By default, comparxiv compares version 1 and 2).

A successful run will generate a pdf and open it.

For more details and options, run

comparxiv --help

DEPENDENCIES

  • python and pip
  • a tex distribution with pdflatex and latexdiff (*)
  • argparse (**)
  • tqdm (**)

(*) Are part of any tex distribution, which can be installed on Linux e.g. via

sudo apt-get install texlive-full

or on macOS e.g. using homebrew.

brew cask install mactex

(**): Get installed automatically via pip, if necessary.

VERSIONS

  • v0.1.0 (24/04/2020): First version released.

AUTHORS & CONTACT

The author of this script is Timon Emken.

For questions, bug reports or other suggestions please contact emken@chalmers.se.

LICENSE

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful for this useful tutorial by Scott Torborg about python packaging.

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