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Creating many draft papers using the LaTeX typesetting software creates difficulty when you need to send revisions of a paper for co-authors to review. Using the latexdiff command will generate a new LaTeX document with text removed as red and text additions as blue. This command has trouble with complicated figures and tikz pictures. Over the years I have used the following command to solve some issues by ignoring various parts of a LaTeX document that cause errors.<\/p>\n

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Here is the command:<\/p>\n

latexdiff --config=\"PICTUREENV=(?:picture|figure|DIFnomarkup|align)[\\w\\d*@]*\" old.tex new.tex > diff.tex\r\n<\/pre>\n
Here is an example output:<\/p>\n
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