On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:45:14 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <> wrote:
> make pdf diff using latexpand and latexdiff-fast
>
> styles are set in diffpreamble.tex:
> new text is blue, old text is red and is crossed-out.
>
> in diff, links are coloured green instead of blue
One minor thing I noticed:
If a link was changed (for example, in the conformance section), the old
link is green and crossed out in red and the new one is green. It
*should* be obvious what change was made, but it might be a bit
confusing. I don't think it's worth further tampering around, though.
>
> Must be run within a git-svn clone of the spec repository.
>
> Note: latexdiff has --flatten option, this and options
> to select diff style don't seem to work well.
> So flatten by script myself, and add our own preamble.
>
> A script fixupdiff works around xetex bugs
> - \color{ \footnote{text} } does not work,
> replace with \footnote{\textcolor{}}
> - too many \color instructions produce
> "color stack overflow. Just ignore" error and
> xetex skips some \color instructions.
That's kind of sad, but probably the best way to get to a usable result
for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <>
> ---
>
> Changes from v1:
> work around xetex bugs
>
> Output looks ok to me now, plan to commit tomorrow.
> Comments?
I tried it and it seems to produce sensible output. I wonder whether
the resulting pdf should lose the -diff suffix, though?
