[texhax] best way to revise a large existing text

[Tom Schneider]

Wes:

> >> Try latexdiff, http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/
> > That was a marvelous suggestion. Thanks.
> 
> It sounded good to me too.  So I downloaded it and tried it -- works fine
> on small tex files, but when I tried it on 'real' files it results in a
> segmentation fault.  Do others also have this experience?

In general, yes.  Obviously the best thing to do is to cut your file
in half successively to locate the problem.  (Each 50% cut tells you
one bit of information as to the position.  :-)

But be sure that both files run cleanly in LaTeX alone, that could be
a problem if they don't.

Tom

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